“What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?”― Alberto Moravia We now ‘see’ that technocommercial systems, whose catallactic being is strictly analogous to a convergent wave, belong indubitably […]
Machiavelli and Sade: Our Future as Pure Abstraction
We saw it in the early Nineties, where I first started really picking up on this type of thing – that there was an overt ideological thesis, that was at that time called the “Californian Ideology”. —Nick Land “Every weirdo
The Glitch Society: Bunker Worlds for Apocalypse
“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.”― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism “Throughout history, social control has been inseparable from the harvesting of personal information.”—Josh Chin and Liza Lin, Surveillance
Dystopia and the Surveillance State
In truth, Bataille seems to me far less an intellectual predicament than a sexual and religious one, transecting the lethargic suicide upon which we are all embarked. To accept his writings is an impossibility, to resist them an irrelevance. One
‘In a system that orders you to live and to capitalize life, the death drive is the only alternative.’ —Jean Baudrillard ‘The zeroing of death amounts to the death of death. It is for this reason that the atheist can
The Necrophilic World: Death-Drive, Capitalism, and our Posthuman Future
In ancient times religion was a form of binding, obligation, and bond between the divine and human. After the Enlightenment this binding was severed, and irreligion cut the bonds or knots that held the human to its objective sense of
Speculative Posthumanism: The Inhuman Core of Speculative Non-Metaphysics
“This book argues, from a functionalist perspective, that mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which itself is primarily and ontologically constituted by the semantic space
Neorational Madness: Reza Negarestani and the New Society of Mind
“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child
The schizophrenic’s extreme transference helps us to understand, the reasons that his world is so terrifying is that he sees it in many ways unblurred by repression.—Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Even though there is much to disagree with
Post-Metaphysics: Toward a Posthuman Speculative Schizorealism
The abject from which he does not cease separating is for him, in short, a land of oblivion that is constantly remembered.—Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror The only certain thing we know about this planet is that it is a
Arthur Kroker: Accelerationist Capitalization A friend mentioned to me that Kroker was for the Left what Nick Land is for the neo-reaction, the hyperstitional mythographer of capitalization as an alien entity gathering steam year by year through acceleration of the
Arthur Kroker/Nick Land: Accelerationist Capitalization
“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child