#inhumanism

[alephskoteinos]

Although the adventure of inexistence only begins in Hell there is no fear, only awe and burning werewolf thirst for the voyage.

- Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation

[thelonguepuree]

The 'beyond' marks (racial/ized) metaphysics' return, its longue durée and spectropoetics, such that race, particularly blackness, is precisely tasked with arbitrating fundamental questions of orientation.

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, “Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement ‘Beyond the Human,’” GLQ 21.2-3, Queer Inhumanisms

[fundgruber]

Whales in New York

http://www.nymediaboat.com/blog/2016/11/humpback-whale-in-new-york-harbor-monday-1121-update

http://www.nymediaboat.com/blog/2016/11/noaas-take-on-the-hudson-humpback

https://daily.jstor.org/why-have-whales-come-to-new-york-city/?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter

[alephskoteinos]

In my opinion, I would agree with the premise that Nick Land sold out, but I would stress that, if you need or want evidence for that, all you have to do is compare "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" (1989) with "Economic Ends" (Xenosystems, , and notice not what is different about them but what persists between them. Both are clear statements of the view that violence ("in the abstract", perhaps) forms the prima materia of political life. From the same idea, the difference is that, in 1989, he took a side against capitalism in the social war, and, after 2010, he took the side of capitalism instead.

[alephskoteinos]

(Nick Land, "Shamanic Nietzsche", Fanged Noumena, pages 208-209)

[wellbottomblues]

Make the Sign of the T(esla)

As a former habitué of medically prescribed benzos  and victim of  annihilating atypical antipsychotics to better cope with our modern world seeing all of the ads for euphoric tonics in my feed, I recall:“The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup  of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, ‘I…

[alephskoteinos]

While I was still researching and writing for "Nick Land and the Right Hand Path" I ended up getting a lot of ideas for other things to write about, so consider this a bonus article.

Nick Land’s God(s) (The Destroyer and the Aeon)

Know the Self always to be everywhere, one and undivded. Avadhuta Gita, Verse 1:12 Ever since I saw Andrew Culp bring it up at the end of hi

Speculation on how Land's presentation of God (or, perhaps, "an atheistic God").