“Cthelll is the terrestrial inner nightmare, nocturnal ocean, Xanadu: the anorganic metal-body trauma-howl of the earth (…) [P]lutonic science slides continuously into schizophrenic delirium. Fast forward seismology and you hear the earth scream.”

—  Nick Land

"Barker Speaks: The CCRU Interview with Professor D.C. Barker" (1999), in Fanged Noumena, pp. 498–9

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