steadfast secularists and the prophetic pious are amalgamated beneath an abstract thresher of nihilism. ‘Modernity was initiated by the European assimilation of mathematical zero. The encounter with nothingness is its root. In this sense, among others, it is nihilistic at its core. The frivolous ‘meanings’ that modernizing societies clutch at, as distractions from their propulsion into the abyss, are defenseless against the derision — and even revulsion — of those who contemplate them with detachment. A modernity in evasion from its essential nihilism is a pitiful prey animal upon the plains of history. That is what we have seen before, see now, and doubtless will see again.’ [Nick Land, XS Nihilism and Destiny]
James Ellis, A Methodology of Possession: On the Philosophy of Nick Land, pg. 113