Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (Urbanomic/Sequence Press)

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Book Genre: 21st Century, Criticism, Cyberpunk, Death, Economics, Essays, Horror, Literary Criticism, Literature, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Theory, Writing If all this sounds absurd - and it often reads like nonsense, it's true - one should bear in mind that all these neurotic reflections arise from purely rationalistic philosophical reflections. The first half or so of the pieces in this collection read like surprisingly formal Derridean deconstructions of the systems of Kant, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, and even Heidegger and other such "postmodern" thinkers - this, despite Land's apparent disgust with Derrida's controlled contemplative habits. He's always looking for hints of an uncontrollable irrationality boiling beneath the surface of transcendental systems. Instead of taking these hints as examples of the différance that moves the Logos, however, Land gradually builds them up into the above-described monstrosity of the indomitable force of unreason as the intensive ground of all rational organization. This transgression of the limits of rationality, however, will not confine itself to "critique", to challenging certain philosophers: eventually, all of the natural sciences, from genetics to geology, from physics to abstract mathematics, will be rewritten in the terms of this unthinkable primordial intensity. Land coined the term "hyperstition", a portmanteau of "superstition" and "hyper", to describe something which "is equipoised between fiction and technology". [15] According to Land, hyperstitions are ideas that, by their very existence as ideas, bring about their own reality. [16] Later work [ edit ] Noys, Benjamin (2014). Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism. Zero Books. ISBN 9781782793007.

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the attempt to read Deleuze (and Guattari) without the vitalism of Bergson and instead with this Nietzschean anti-vitalism (of the will) is a fascinating failure. the well-rehearsed productions with cyberpunk and neo-Lovecraftian toy kits are nothing more than disorientation before the exit sign in postmodernity's hall of mirrors, self-satisfaction oozing out between the panes. as much an experiment in non-standard thought as a child courting a throw-up is a dervish. All health, beauty, intelligence, and social grace has been teased from a vast butcher’s yard of unbounded carnage, requiring incalculable eons of massacre to draw forth even the subtlest of advantages. This is not only a matter of the bloody grinding mills of selection, either, but also of the innumerable mutational abominations thrown up by the madness of chance, as it pursues its directionless path to some negligible preservable trait, and then — still further — of the unavowable horrors that ‘fitness’ (or sheer survival) itself predominantly entails. We are a minuscule sample of agonized matter, comprising genetic survival monsters, fished from a cosmic ocean of vile mutants, by a pitiless killing machine of infinite appetite. (This is still, perhaps, to put an irresponsibly positive spin on the story, but it should suffice for our purposes here.)” Serial Experiments Lain и заодно пройти одноименную игру. Юбилей как раз, 25 лет. Вот уж где киберготика, гипервирус и расплавление всего. Плюс авангардная медиамикс форма. The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion) (London and New York: Routledge, 1992) [22] He obtained a PhD in the University of Essex under David Farrell Krell, with a thesis on Heidegger's 1953 essay Die Sprache im Gedicht, which is about Georg Trakl's work. [9]

Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Philosophy | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. Mark Fisher, a British cultural theorist and student of Land's, argued in 2011 that Land's greatest impact so far had been on music and art, rather than on philosophy. The musician Kode9, the artist Jake Chapman, and others studied with or describe their influence by Land, often highlighting Land's inhuman, "technilist," or "delirious" qualities. Fisher underscores in particular how Land's personality during the 1990s could catalyze changes in those engaging with his work through what Kodwo Eshun describes as a manner "immediately open, egalitarian, and absolutely unaffected by academic protocol" which could dramatise "theory as a geopolitico-historical epic." [6] K-tactics. The bacterial or xenogenetic diagram is not restricted to the microbial scale. Macrobacterial assemblages collapse generational hierarchies of reproductive wisdom into lateral networks of replicator experimentation. There is no true biological primitiveness – all extant bio-systems being equally evolved – so there is no true ignorance. It is only the accumulative-gerontocratic model of learning that depicts synchronic connectivity deficiency as diachronic underdevelopment. Stabilization circuits suppress mutation, whilst short-range runaway circuits propagate it only in an unsustainable burst, before cancelling it entirely. Neither of these figures approximate to self-designing processes or long-range runaway circuits, such as Nietzsche’s will to power, Freud’s phylogenetic thanatos, or Prigogine’s dissipative structures. Long-range runaway processes are self-designing, but only in such a way that the self is perpetuated as something redesigned. If this is a vicious circle it is because positive cybernetics must always be described as such. Logic, after all, is from the start theology. (298)”

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Land's work with CCRU, as well as his pre-Dark Enlightenment writings, have all been influential to the political philosophy of accelerationism, an idea resembling that of the "fatal strategy" of "ecstasy" in the earlier work of Jean Baudrillard, where "a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic, by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization." Along with the other members of CCRU, Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to try to describe the phenomena of techno-capitalist acceleration. Was Trakl a Christian? Yes, of course, at times he becomes a Christian, among a general confusion of becomings—becoming an animal, becoming a virus, becoming inorganic—just as he was also an antichrist, a poet, a pharmacist, an alcoholic, a drug addict, a psychotic, a leper, a suicide, an incestuous cannibal, a necrophiliac, a rodent, a vampire, and a werewolf. Just as he became his sister, and also a hermaphrodite. Trakl's texts are scrawled over by redemptionist monotheism, just as they are stained by narcotic fluidities, gnawed by rats, cratered by Russian artillery, charred and pitted by astronomical debris. Trakl was a Christian and an atheist and also a Satanist, when he wasn't simply undead, or in some other way inhuman. It is perhaps more precise to say that Trakl never existed, except as a battlefield, a reservoir of disease, the graveyard of a deconsecrated church, as something expiring from a massive cocaine overdose on the floor of a military hospital, cheated by lucidity by the searing onslaught of base difference.” Because of this Land's reading of Deleuze and Guatarri's philosophy, that which he bases about 50% of his work on, is, in my opinion, quite prejudiced. This is the Land golden age: we got all the classics here. The original schizoposts are here: texts like Hypervirus descend into literal gibberish as Land explores William S. Burroughs' idea of language as a virus in a digital context - but only does so literarily, not philosophically, even if he deluded himself enough to think he was doing the latter.Brennan, Eugene (2017c). "The Politics of Excess and Restraint: Reading Bataille alongside and against Accelerationism". In Stronge, Will (ed.). Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4742-6869-1. Land had the most brilliantly seductive and meteoric mind, endlessly imaginative and capable of adopting, inhabiting and discarding any philosophical position. With him - and rightly so - philosophy infected every area of life, and sheer vitality of life reverberated in his thinking. Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?” accelerate Accelerationism adaptation adaptivity affect agency anarchism anthropocene anthropology art assemblage biopolitics capital capitalism catastrophia climate change cognition collapse communalism communism corporeality cosmopolitics critique design desire ecognosis ecologistics ecology economics emergence episteme ethics existence existenz extinction governance infrastructure machinics materialism media methods nihilism ontography ontopunk patchwork perception politics polity postnihil postnihilism praxis psychiatry resistance sapience sentience speculation techne technics theoria theory thinkers thinkers Archives