(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
Damn dude Mark Fisher already killed himself what more do you want
No one gives a shit about Nick Land except online leftists, he's not a real person as far as anyone but the online left is concerned. He's a dude who wrote some stupid blog articles. That's fucking it. He has no influence on policy, he's changed nothing about the discourse outside of the terminally online, etc. Baked Alaska has had as much influence on the rise of fascism in the US as he has.
there are two Nick Lands, young and old, and it is thought that they are separated by something of a mental breakdown. it is amazing that someone who wrote Fanged Noumena and influenced Mark Fisher and others could now be such an edgelord boomer tool on Twitter that it's hard to parodize.
He was recently interviewed by that hilarious Stefan Molyneux type of twitter 'philosopher' (named Justin something?) and he was asked about what happened in between the two Lands and he responded "Well.... Facebook." All that pseudo-radical posturing and insane theorizing (it drove him to mental breakdowns) and he couldn't predict Big Tech sanitizing his hyper-rhizomatic cyberspace singularity-event into the boring internet we all hate today.
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.
lmao I just checked Land's twitter and he's whining about the dems rigging the election. pathetic.
I used to browse his twitter to see what the fuss is about and the guy is barely distinguishable from an average racist boomer.
I like how even the somewhat interesting Fash grifters like Land and Jones have gotten sucked up into Trump MAGA bullshit. I wonder if Julius Evola would be a Trump guy if he was alive today.
when you engage with somebody you automatically agree on everything
cyberpunk genre being dystopian and actually not cool and fun like it seems
wait who the fuck thinks cyberpunk is COOL AND FUN?!
Waiting for the cybernetic ascensions of the ultimate reactionary, Nick Landlord.