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

—  Nick Land

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

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