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“(…) anything that systematically enhances moral hazard is simply manufacturing craziness.”

Nick Land

"Suspended Animation (Part 5)" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011)

“Garbage time is running out. Can what is playing you make it to level-2?”

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"Meltdown" http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm (1994)

“When a unit group is destroyed, a real individual is ‘killed’ above and beyond whatever human losses are incurred. The destruction of a feature group, in contrast, whatever the cultural loss, is not any kind of killing beyond the mass murder of human individuals.”

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"Kinds of Killing" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011) (original emphasis)

“The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.”

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"Meltdown" http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm (1994)

“Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die?”

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Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 5: "Dead God", p. 60 (original emphasis)
Context: God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?

“Neo-China arrives from the future.”

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&quot;Meltdown&quot; http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm (1994) <br class="br">Variant: Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

“Anonymous excess takes life over the cliff, exceeding socially utilizable transgressions and homeostatic sacrifices. Matter goes insane.”

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"No Future" (1995), in Fanged Noumena, p. 396

“Rituals of belonging (ordeals, oaths, rites of passage) are designed to disambiguate membership.”

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&quot;Kinds of Killing&quot; https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011)

“It might be argued that civilization is nothing else, that is to say: the tendency of personal authority to decline towards zero.”

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&quot;A Republic, If You Can Keep It&quot; https://web.archive.org/web/20140327090001/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/articles/12321 (2013) (original emphasis)

“As with physical gravity, an understanding of the forces of social attraction support predictions, or at least the broad outlines of futuristic anticipation, since these forces of agglomeration and intensification manifestly shape the future.”

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&quot;Event Horizon&quot; https://web.archive.org/web/20110718030432/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/index.php/article/detail/304/event-horizon (2011)

“Whilst the distinction of ‘society’ and ‘individual’ has colloquial (and political) meaning, those inclined to the analysis of complex systems are more likely to ask which groups or societies are real individuals, exhibiting functional or behavioral integrity, as self-reproducing wholes. In pursuing this line of investigation, it is far more relevant to discriminate between types of groups than between groups and individuals, or even wholes and parts. It is especially helpful to distinguish feature groups from unit groups.”

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&quot;Kinds of Killing&quot; https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011) (original emphasis)

“French identity, radically conceived, corresponds to a failed national project. Is it not, in fact, the supreme example of collective defeat in the modern period, and thus—concretely—of humiliation by capital?”

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&quot;Sore Losers&quot; https://www.urbanomic.com/document/sore-losers/ (2016) (original emphasis)

“Socialism has typically been a nostalgic diatribe against underdeveloped capitalism, finding its eschatological soap-boxes amongst the relics of precapitalist territorialities.”

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"Machinic Desire" (1993), in Fanged Noumena, p. 340

“Without attachment to anything beyond its own abysmal exuberance, capitalism identifies itself with desire to a degree that cannot imaginably be exceeded (…)”

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"Critique of Transcendental Miserablism" (2007), in Fanged Noumena, pp. 624–5

“All historical evidence seems to be that the party of chaos is suppressed by the party of order.”

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&quot;‘The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land&quot; https://syntheticzero.net/2017/06/19/the-only-thing-i-would-impose-is-fragmentation-an-interview-with-nick-land/ (2017)

“The city is unquestionably—or (to say what is in reality exactly the same, but this time with greater caution) vividly—a time machine. It cannot be made without time reversal, and everything we know about historical geography tells us that it is coming to a screen near you.”

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Templexity: Disordered Loops Through Shanghai Time (2014), "Distribution" (original emphasis)

“A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.”

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"Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" (1988–9), in Fanged Noumena, p. 79

“What appears as disaster postponed is, in virtual reality, disaster expanded.”

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&quot;Suspended Animation (Part 5)&quot; https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011)

“Any attempt by political forces in the Third World to resolve the problems of their neo-colonial integration into the world trading system on the basis of national sovereignty is as naive as would be the attempt of black South Africans if they opted for a 'bantustan' solution to their particular politico-economic dilemma.”

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"Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" (1988–9), in Fanged Noumena, p. 57

“Scholars have an inordinate respect for long books, and have a terrible rancune against those that attempt to cheat on them. They cannot bear to imagine that short-cuts are possible, that specialism is not an inevitability, that learning need not be stoically endured. They cannot bear writers allegro, and when they read such texts—and even pretend to revere them—the result is (this is not a description without generosity) 'unappetizing'.”

Nick Land

Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 2: "The curse of the sun", p. 25 (original emphasis)