Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
“Politics is the archaic and inadequate name for something that must pass away into the religious history of capital. There are no effective anti-capitalist interests, but only anti-bourgeois desires in alliance with zero.”-Nick Land[1] “For what happens to whomever does not want to recognize the political economy is libidinal, is that he preproduces in other…
Anarchism, as a political discourse, has consistently positioned itself as a total rejection of authority. The state, the church, capital, patriarchy, and even language itself have been critically dissected—both in classical anarchist traditions (Bakunin and Kropotkin) and in its post-structuralist iterations (Saul Newman, Todd May, and Lewis Call)—as structures of power that must be dismantled.…
Nietzsche deconstructed the problem of existence by historicizing value, while Camus demanded that the subject revolt against the absurd. Yet both thinkers presumed a subject who possessed the capacity to stand: the free spirit who survives disenchantment, or the absurd hero who returns to his boulder with his faculties intact. Neither philosopher, at any juncture,…
Consider this question: how do you know you are not dreaming right now? When you are immersed in a dream, everything feels real, until—a moment of lucidity breaks the spell. You say, “Oh, I am in fact dreaming”. But what guarantees that you are not dreaming right at this moment? You might point to consistencies,…
This intervention diagnosticates the contemporary domestication of critical negativity by algorithmic infrastructure. It traces a genealogy of the Promethean impulse—from the theological dogmatism of 19th-century Russian Hegelianism and Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism to its monumentalization under Soviet Brutalism —in order to contrast it with the frictionless, predictive engineering of late capitalism. Ultimately, it investigates what thought…
In the essay “A Marker”, Maya B Kronic argues the following: “…I think of depression as a kind of turning of your energy back on yourself, an expression of excess rather than lack.” To the depressed person, this statement might seem phantasmagorically counterintuitive. In the depressed state, the depressed person perceives time as, as Kronic…
Nowadays, Nick Land is mostly well known for his radical political theory of ‘Accelerationism’ especially with an increase in interest surrounding discourse on theory related to Cybernetics and Technology started to surface on the internet as the radical influence technology has on political events has become much more apparent in recent years after the pandemic.…