(parody of a meme about the cyberpunk genre being dystopian and actually not cool and fun like it seems)
https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/10459/1/nick-land-mind-games
“The combination of delirium and the crispest thinking turned the political pessimism of the time into an intensive fatalism that was productive without reserve. Land somehow stamped his mark on the death-drive, and anyone who had the courage to read his work was pulled along in the wake.”
When you were in Nick’s presence, thinking mattered. It took on a mortal quality – it became enlivened, libidinised, intensified… and it made demands upon you. Many, if not all of those people that made contact with Nick Land have since gone on to make names for themselves in literature, in electronic dance music, in art, in fiction… It is clear to me now that those encounters with Nick were intensifying experiences. After Nick, one could not turn back towards a homeland of thought. There was no homeland left to return to.”
This is very sad, I had no idea British people were such soulless empty vessels. Makes sense for pedo island to be nihilist and receptacle to following an inherently neoliberal philosophical project that is nothing but dIrUpTiOn Of MaRkEtPlAcEs
Sorry, Nick Land’s early writings (like the ones in Fanged Noumena) are actually cool.
There are hints that his politics are bad liberally sprinkled throughout, but it’s still worth reading if you’re into that sort of weirdness.