Nick Land

British philosopher · United Kingdom · Academics · Born 1962 · age 64

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Nick Land is an English philosopher best known for popularising the ideology of accelerationism. His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism, and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences.

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2023“Christianity is certainly not essentially communism, but it spawns communistic mutants with the same inevitability that Creation spawns devils and sin.”In their words27 August 2023Read the whole statement

2017“Accelerationism links the implosion of decision-space to the explosion of the world - that is, to modernity.”In their words"A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" (2017)Read the whole statement

“The point of an analysis of capitalism, or of nihilism, is to do more of it. The process is not to be critiqued.”In their words"A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" (2017) (original emphasis)Read the whole statement

“I think that natural sciences and capitalism are different aspects of the same thing. ...Science is orientated against scientists, capitalism is oriented against businesses.”In their words"‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land" (2017)Read the whole statement

2016“French identity, radically conceived, corresponds to a failed national project.”In their words"Sore Losers" (2016) (original emphasis)Read the whole statement

2014“What can the earth do? There is only self-quantification of teleoplexy or cybernetic intensity, which is what computerized financial markets (in the end) are for.”In their words"Teleoplexy: Notes on Acceleration" (2014), in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, p. 516Read the whole statement

1962Born14 March 1962

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Christianity is certainly not essentially communism, but it spawns communistic mutants with the same inevitability that Creation spawns devils and sin.
Aug 27, 2023, 27 August 2023, Own words
Bitcoin accelerates the advance of monetary theory into cybernetic fundamentalism. It’s turtles - or, more precisely, feedback dynamics - all the way down.
2018, "‘Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy’ §5.741" (2018), Own words
The suspicion has to arrive that if a public conversation about acceleration is beginning, it’s just in time to be too late.
2017, "A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" (2017), Own words

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