“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?”

—  Nick Land

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

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