Nick Land citations

Nick Land, né le 17 janvier 1962, est un philosophe, blogueur et écrivain britannique connu pour ses nouvelles d'horreur et en tant que « père de l'accélérationnisme ».

Son oeuvre a jeté les bases du genre de la « théorie-fiction ». Cofondateur dans les années 1990 du collectif Cybernetic Culture Research Unit , son travail a été associé au développement de l'accélérationnisme et du réalisme spéculatif,,.

Land est également connu, avec Curtis Yarvin, pour avoir développé dans ses travaux ultérieurs les idées anti-égalitaires et antidémocratiques derrière le mouvement NRx et le projet du Dark Enlightenment. Wikipedia  

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Nick Land: Citations en anglais

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

"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?”

Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 5: "Dead God", p. 60 (original emphasis)
Contexte: 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.”

"Meltdown" http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm (1994)
Variante: Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

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

"Kinds of Killing" 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.”

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

“The point of an analysis of capitalism, or of nihilism, is to do more of it. The process is not to be critiqued. The process is the critique, feeding back into itself, as it escalates. The only way forward is through, which means further in.”

"A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ (2017) (original emphasis)

“I dream of the damnation I have so amply earned, stolen from me by the indolence of God.”

Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 4: "Easter", p. 56

“The current time is a period of transition, with a distinctive quality, characterizing the end of an epoch. Something – some age – is coming quite rapidly to an end.”

"Time in Transition" https://web.archive.org/web/20121113235339/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/777/time-in-transition (2011)

“Among complex systems, stability is typically meta-stability, which is preserved through cycling, whilst growth and shrinkage are often components of a larger-scale, cyclic wave.”

"Eternal Return, and After" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718030428/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/index.php/article/detail/269/eternal-return-and-after (2011)

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