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Mark Fisher, a British cultural theorist and student of Land's, argued in 2011 that Land's greatest impact so far had been on music and art, rather than on philosophy. The musician Kode9, the artist Jake Chapman, and others studied with or describe their influence by Land, often highlighting Land's inhuman, "technilist," or "delirious" qualities. Fisher underscores in particular how Land's personality during the 1990s could catalyze changes in those engaging with his work through what Kodwo Eshun describes as a manner "immediately open, egalitarian, and absolutely unaffected by academic protocol" which could dramatise "theory as a geopolitico-historical epic." [6] Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

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These extraordinary texts, superheated compounds of severe abstraction and scabrous wit, testify to a uniquely penetrating intelligence, fusing transcendental philosophy, number theory, geophysics, biology, cryptography and occultism into startlingly cohesive but increasingly delirious theory-fictions.The first essay, ‘Kant, Capital et al’, is a really iconic work, and simultaneously deserving of that reputation whilst also being a sore thumb, completely dissimilar in any way you might care to imagine from everything Land’s written since. This essay is heavily indebted to Sadie Plant’s cyberfeminism (‘if nature is oppressive, nature itself must be changed’) but twists the patriarchal injunction toward exogamy into a technomaterialist necessity for cyberfeminist guerillas as the subject of emancipatory praxis. This idea does not long survive the censorious renunciations in the body politic of Landian theory, but is less remarkable for its agreeable minoritarian politics (what, if anything, Land thinks about feminism now is probably best left unsaid), but far more head-turning for certain anthropomorphic biases--from here on out, humanism ‘is not even false’. If all this sounds absurd - and it often reads like nonsense, it's true - one should bear in mind that all these neurotic reflections arise from purely rationalistic philosophical reflections. The first half or so of the pieces in this collection read like surprisingly formal Derridean deconstructions of the systems of Kant, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, and even Heidegger and other such "postmodern" thinkers - this, despite Land's apparent disgust with Derrida's controlled contemplative habits. He's always looking for hints of an uncontrollable irrationality boiling beneath the surface of transcendental systems. Instead of taking these hints as examples of the différance that moves the Logos, however, Land gradually builds them up into the above-described monstrosity of the indomitable force of unreason as the intensive ground of all rational organization. This transgression of the limits of rationality, however, will not confine itself to "critique", to challenging certain philosophers: eventually, all of the natural sciences, from genetics to geology, from physics to abstract mathematics, will be rewritten in the terms of this unthinkable primordial intensity.

fanged noumena; a creature of surrendering contradiction. fanged noumena; a creature of surrendering contradiction.

Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. Even those poets who can be the personae of alterity are ones who conform to a recognizable philosophical category: the sublime. In Kant, the reasoning and contemplating subject precedes its risk of undoing in the sublime. For Land it’s still about the sublime, just the other way around. The sublime is the traumatic primacy of the finitude of the animal. The work of Kant’s artist-genius is the situation where alterity might break through, where seething, writhing, intensive matter finds its own forms.Machinic Postmodernism: Complexity, Technics and Regulation (with Keith Ansell-Pearson& Joseph A. McCahery) (SAGE Publications, 1996) Land sees labor as complicit with phenomenology, rather than a displacement of it. “There can be no conception of work that does not project spirit into the origin, morally valorizing exertion…” (287) But this need only apply to the early Marx, not the later, where, as Wendling shows, a thermodynamic conception of work is starting to trouble Marx’s Hegelian praxis of spirit humanizing the world. The other path there is to reverse it, to see work not as the human spiritualizing the world but as the world materializing labor, an incomplete project of opening through labor toward a world that remakes species-being as nothing special, as one organization of matter, energy and information among others. One could read Haraway as taking this turn. Land in the middle of this book is quite the void worshiper. This book is basically a schizoanalytic art project that at its fever pitch manifests as a quite serious death worship.

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Land has also written on the implications for philosophy and politics of cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin. Drawing from Kantian epistemology, Land has described Bitcoin as "an operational truth procedure". [19] As of August 2019, Land is still working on a book about Bitcoin. [20] Reception and Influence [ edit ] So let’s return to the dynamic sublime. Land: “philosophers feast in the palaces of reason, and luxuriate in the screams that reach them from the dungeons of sublimity.” (141) Philosophy desires the supremacy of that part of the human that likes to think it is akin to angels, by sacrificing that part that is kith to the animal. Reason is built on the scaffold that sacrifices the synthetic capabilities of the imagination, the body’s animal cunning. “The Kantian moral good is the total monopoly of power in the hands of reason…. The categorical imperative presupposes vivisection.” (141-2) The meltdown of metropolitan education systems in the near future is accompanied by a quasi-punctual bottom-up takeover of academic institutions, precipitating their mutation into amnesiac cataspace-exploration zones and bases manufacturing cyberian soft-weaponry. Land achieved notoriety in recent years as a prophet of Neo-reaction. I’m not going to say much about those texts, although they do pose questions for reading the early work. I’m not inclined to read Land, or anyone, through a teleology in which the later positions were always present in embryo. I think writers careen through a garden of forked paths, where each decision opens up onto others, and others in turn. A position is just one possibility out of many for where a line of thought might stagger.

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Fanged Noumena is a dizzying trip through land’s rigorous, incisive and provocative work, establishing it as an indispensable resource for radically inhuman thought in the twenty-first century. The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion) (London and New York: Routledge, 1992) [22] While we as humans may not possess the knowledge, perhaps there are higher forms of intelligence, lurking in our very own shadows that do. If they did, what would this mean? It would mean that that they have complete and utter control.

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