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Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (Urbanomic/Sequence Press)

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There is no real option between a cybernetics of theory or a theory of cybernetics, because cybernetics is neither a theory nor its object, but an operation within anobjective partial circuits that reiterates ‘itself’ in the real and machines theory through the unknown. Far from being the acme of religion — let alone its telic blossoming — God is the principle of its suppression.

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During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land’s unique work, variously described as ‘rabid nihilism’, ‘mad black deleuzianism’ and ‘cybergothic’, developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of ‘continental philosophy’—a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex. If one is to gain some purchase on the gloomy cathedral of our history, along with a little fresh air, it is important to begin with the sublime rather than aesthetic contemplation in general, and to read the sublime as generative rather than revelatory in its relation to reason. Beyond the gesticulations of primordial spirit it is positive death that is the model, and revolution is not a duty but a surrender. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land’s unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,”“mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy”—a route that was implacably blocked by the academy.This is an atheistic, inhuman theory of production, conceptually anchored to a transcendental unconscious, the production of production, a real that makes itself. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 is a 2011 anthology of writings by English philosopher Nick Land, edited by English philosophers Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier. Mechanomics", initially published in 1998, is a paper on "schizonumerics" [8] detailing speculations on the anthropological history of numeracy, prevalent logocentric attitudes to numbering, the Deleuzoguattarian interpretation of numbers as multiplicity, and Land's own reinterpretation of set theory and combinatorics where the mathematical proofs of Georg Cantor and Kurt Gödel "open up humans to an outside of logos" in which notions of quantity proceed past limits of comprehensibility: [35] "for Land", according to Mackay and Brassier, "the interest of Gödel's achievement is not primarily 'mathematical' but rather belongs to a lineage of the operationalisation of number in coding systems that will pass through Turing and into the technological mega-complex of contemporary techno-capital.

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Tic Talk", "Critique of Transcendental Miserablism" and "A Dirty Joke" were published on Hyperstition; the first text is a schizonumeric conclusion to the character story of Professor Barker wherein every number is written as its factors, the second is an accelerationist polemic that explores a wide variety of sources to propose a fatalistic model of capitalist society, and the third is an autobiographical text written as a confession of both the "failure" of Land's experimental career and the success of its longevity beyond his work. You can read this before Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007 PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. There is no dialectic between social and technical relations but only a mechanism that dissolves society into the machines whilst deterritorializing the machines across the ruins of society….Land is more interested in long-range run-away circuits of positive feedback as the will to power or the death drive. Kant, Capital, and thee Prohibition of Incest is the kind of lunacy that results from not understanding the Hajnal Line. Along with the other members of CCRU, Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to try to describe the phenomena of techno-capitalist acceleration.

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I don’t think the Deleuzo-Guattarian break from psychoanalysis is fully convincing anyway, and neither does Nick Land (he just prefers Freud to Lacan); in fact, Oedipus is a dynamic and protean conceptual battery rather than a structuralist handicap. The first essay, ‘Kant, Capital et al’, is a really iconic work, and simultaneously deserving of that reputation whilst also being a sore thumb, completely dissimilar in any way you might care to imagine from everything Land’s written since. The first text in the selection of Land's CCRU texts in Fanged Noumena, "Barker Speaks: The CCRU Interview with Professor D. Wanting more is the index of interlock with cyberpositive machinic processes, and of personal subjective traits [.Eugene Brennan referred to the book as a collection which "show[s] Nick Land's waning interest in Bataille, turning increasingly to the more libertarian thought of Deleuze and Guattari to develop his accelerationist philosophy", clarifying that much of the early work in the book extended from The Thirst for Annihilation. The martyrdom of the imagination is described as rational rather than rationalizing, as irrelevant to the constitution of reason. But it can only be identified with a non-rational poetics: “K- (coding for cyber) positive processes auto-intensify by occurring. Responding to the assertions made in the essay, Brassier theorized that while if "schizoanalytical practice is fuelled by the need to always intensify and deterritorialize, there comes a point at which there is no agency left: you yourself have been dissolved back into the process", the difficulties appearing in Land's initial approach could be amended by further deviations by future subjects.

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