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WOULD YOU DESTROY A BETTER WORLD TO SAVE THIS ONE?
TO GO STILL FURTHER ... IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE MARKET ... FOR PERHAPS THE FLOWS ARE NOT YET DETERRITORIALIZED ENOUGH, NOT DECODED ENOUGH ... NOT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROCESS, BUT TO GO FURTHER, TO "ACCELERATE THE PROCESS" ... THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET.
I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN, NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE.
EVERY MAN IS FREE TO DO THAT WHICH HE WILLS, PROVIDED HE INFRINGES NOT THE EQUAL LIBERTY OF ANY OTHER MAN.
IN ITS COLDER VARIANTS, WHICH ARE THOSE THAT WIN OUT, ACCELERATIONISM TENDS TO LAUGH.
WE WILL ENJOY OUR ALIENATION
DARKLY • AESTHETICIZE • WHAT'S • COMING
Index
To briefly explain the structure of this blog: this is a nearly direct export of my Zettelkasten knowledge system. I call the hypertext nodes here thoughts instead of "posts," because they can be changed, rewritten, and edited over time — to erase mistakes or represent my changing views — but can also remain stagnant and unedited as I move on to thinking more actively about other things — whether unrelated, or specific related subtopics — and my views change but I haven't had time to go back and edit them.
Thus, if you want to get a more complete and up to date understanding of my views on a topic, look at a whole thought page, not just an individual thought: like any brain, my public second brain is a constantly changing, evolving web of beliefs which is moved forward precisely by the tensions between various parts of it, forcing it to move in one direction or another.
Recent Updates
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Programmer automation
Weaving used to devour huge amounts of labour that was not available for other uses. In the long run, mankind is better off with fewer weavers and more software developers, artists, car mechanics and so forth. In the short run, yeah, the transition was painful. The same is true of the transition from farms. It used to be that very nearly everyone was engaged in near-subsistence farming; now almost no-one is. Technological advances freed up labour to do more productive things, and we are all (now... -
The fascination of Nick Land: a Landian accelerationism primer
"Mad black Deleuzean" is how Ray Brassier described Nick Land once, and it strikes at the heart of exactly why he's so interesting. Haven't dived into Land yet? Kind of avoided him? That's fair. New Land is a boring lolcow --- the Dark Enlightenment guy who ended up a Nixonian geriatric whining about "grievance-mongers" and immigrants --- but no, I'm talking about old Land. Pre Dark Enlightenment fascist turn. Of the Fanged Noumena and CCRU (Cybernetic culture research unit, the writings of whic... -
Re-accelerationism
Recently came across a reference to a blog post from Nick Land's neoreactionary era blog, Xenosystems, which sounded interesting, so I went and found it in Xenosystems Fragments (well, a free PDF copy I found thereof online; no need to fund whatever ghoulish press would actually publish such a thing). I'll reproduce it here. Re-AccelerationismIs there a word for an ‘argument’ so soggily insubstantial that it has to be scooped into a pair of scare-quotes to be apprehended, even in its self-di... -
The market is for Outsiders
I love the market. Yes, you heard me right. And more than that, I love it precisely because it is inhuman, alienated --- because it allows for functional anonymity, social and material decoupling, deterritorialization of relations of material interdependence, the destruction of all obligatory culture and values. The local supermarket doesn't care that I'm trans... All it cares about is whether I have money. It may be profitable for some surveillance capitalist corporations to know those things a... -
Futurism
Charts the course of the original, interesting, Nick Land's descent into schizophrenic, meth-addicted, paranoid breakdown --- producing interesting theory almost all the way --- and explains why he turned neoreactionary after. Probably the best way to go into accelerationism, with this in mind, so you always know to be careful. For accelerationism the crucial lesson was this: A negative feedback circuit – such as a steam-engine ‘governor’ or a thermostat – functions to keep some state of...