Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Nick Land
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On a Newly Arisen Futurist Tone in Criticism
The chosen title anticipates the movement: in 1982, Jacques Derrida delivered a lecture titled On a Newly Arisen Apocalyptic Tone in Philosophy, itself inspired by Kant’s 1796 essay On a Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy. In that lecture, Derrida picks a fight with the philosophy of his time, attacking the apocalyptic tone of endings…
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Xenomechanology
The planet is burning. The ice is melting, the waters are rising, the atmosphere is changing. Capital has run the same feedback loop for three hundred years now. Colonial matrices that were intended to have disappeared continue to produce the same types of corpses in the same patterns. Fascism is back. Not as a historical…
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Political Theology as a Myth Protecting the Human Security System
“Man by nature is a political animal.”[1] This well-known statement from Aristotle’s Politics serves as the foundation behind what makes man and the concept of the Political something that is worth preserving as sacred values in the tradition of not only western philosophy and thought but civilization in general for more than over 2 millenniums.…
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Set-Theoretic Hyperstition: An Esquisse
Following Gödel’s famous results, any theory capable of carrying the most basic of maths, Arithmetic, is deemed to be either inconsistent or incomplete. At the very beginning, this position set the math world on fire because it shattered the Hilbertian dream of a logical grounding of mathematics. One of the problems was that, at the…
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Quid Iuris: Conceptual Machines and Their Transcendental Function in Law
For Deleuze, philosophy is primarily concerned with the creation of concepts, which arise in response to a concrete problem. Thus, attending to both a particular thinker and a theoretical framework implies positioning oneself upon those bridges built to unite seemingly irreconcilable spheres and, on their basis, continuing this creative labor. It is in this sense…
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Gnostic Futurism: Notes Toward a Movement
This essay proposes the name Gnostic Futurism for a tendency shared by a small group of painters, composers, photographers, and philosophical writers working between London, Milan, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. The proposal is substantive: Gnostic Futurism designates a position in the philosophy of meaning before it designates a style. Its motivation is given…
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