Over at the OU I was moderating an MA forum on styles of philosophy, so decided to go for broke with a post on ‘Theory Fiction, Mad Black Deleuzeanism and the Posthuman Void’. God knows what my poor students will make of it, but sometimes you just have to go for it I guess: [[ […]
Tag: Nick Land
Memories of the Body
Aesthetically, this sequence recalls an avant-garde cinema where speech floats; freed from an expository role. One thinks of the literary allusions in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (Kasdan 1976) or perhaps Chris Marker’s La Jetée: still images linked by a reflective narration. Reflection and momentum has been restored. The future has been put out of the loop, for now. As […]
Land: “planets are misallocations of matter which don’t really work”
Nick Land channeling young Manfred Macx here: NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on the table: “Mars is just dumb mass at the bottom of a gravity well; there isn’t even a biosphere there. They should be working on uploading and solving […]
Land: "planets are misallocations of matter which don’t really work"
Nick Land channeling young Manfred Macx here: NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on the table: “Mars is just dumb mass at the bottom of a gravity well; there isn’t even a biosphere there. They should be working on uploading and solving […]
Lindblom on Land
Jon Lindblom has written a very lucid and helpful summary of Nick Land’s career and his influence on important speculative thinkers like Grant and Brassier here. Well worth a read.
Land on Democratic Transhumanism
Nice to know that Nick Land is still a prickly histamine to questionable Liberal-Transhumanist Eschatology and still re-tooling Neuromancer to great effect. That’s Shanghai!
Accelerationism and Posthumanism
I’ve just been listening to Ray Brassier’s presentation on Nick Land’s work at the recent Accelerationism conference at Goldsmiths, University of London with an appropriately night-black, supercharging Lavazza in hand. Here, Ray patiently anatomizes tensions within Land’s ‘thanatropic’ politics. This advocates intensifying the deracinating power of Capital to generate pure, unbound intensities beyond the scope of […]
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