“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)
Nick Land é um filósofo, escritor, blogueiro britânico, sendo descrito como "o pai do aceleracionismo".
Land também é conhecido por desenvolver posteriormente as ideias anti-igualitárias e antidemocráticas por trás do Iluminismo das Trevas, sendo às vezes é associada à alt-right ou outros movimentos de direita.
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“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)
"Kinds of Killing" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011) (original emphasis)
"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?”
Fonte: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 5: "Dead God", p. 60 (original emphasis)
Contexto: 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.
"No Future" (1995), in Fanged Noumena, p. 396
“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)
"A Republic, If You Can Keep It" https://web.archive.org/web/20140327090001/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/articles/12321 (2013) (original emphasis)
"Event Horizon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718030432/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/index.php/article/detail/304/event-horizon (2011)
"Kinds of Killing" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011) (original emphasis)
"Sore Losers" https://www.urbanomic.com/document/sore-losers/ (2016) (original emphasis)
"Machinic Desire" (1993), in Fanged Noumena, p. 340
"Critique of Transcendental Miserablism" (2007), in Fanged Noumena, pp. 624–5
“(…) 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)
Templexity: Disordered Loops Through Shanghai Time (2014), "Distribution" (original emphasis)
“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)
"Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" (1988–9), in Fanged Noumena, p. 57
Fonte: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 2: "The curse of the sun", p. 25 (original emphasis)
"‘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 Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ (2017) (original emphasis)
"No Future" (1995), in Fanged Noumena, p. 392
“I dream of the damnation I have so amply earned, stolen from me by the indolence of God.”
Fonte: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 4: "Easter", p. 56
"Teleoplexy: Notes on Acceleration" (2014), in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, p. 513
"Suspended Animation (Part 5)" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032650/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1524/suspended-animation-part-5 (2011) (original emphasis)
"Time in Transition" https://web.archive.org/web/20121113235339/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/777/time-in-transition (2011)
"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)
"Barker Speaks: The CCRU Interview with Professor D.C. Barker" (1999), in Fanged Noumena, pp. 498–9
"Statistical Mentality" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718052233/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/index.php/article/detail/522/statistical-mentality (2011)