"As sino-pacific boom and automatized global economic integration crashes the neocolonial world system...

"As sino-pacific boom and automatized global economic integration crashes the neocolonial world system, the metropolis is forced to re-endogenize its crisis. Hyper-fluid capital deterritorializing to the planetary level divests the first world of geographic privilege; resulting in Euro-American neo-mercantilist panic reactions, welfare state deterioration, cancerizing enclaves of domestic underdevelopment, political collapse, and the release of cultural toxins that speed-up the process of disintegration in a vicious circle."

How did he know?

Know what? The Neocolonial world system is nowhere near crashing yet.

Euro-American neo-mercantilist panic reactions

release of cultural toxins that speed-up the process of disintegration in a vicious circle.

>political collapse

>Hyper-fluid capital deterritorializing to the planetary level divests the first world of geographic

about ~90% of a nation's capital is fixed though. Also, in a global market, states need to exist as distinct entities for trade to occur, states compete against each other and would emerge as areas of high capital density and stability. There will not be a global market or a global AI dystopia, although its fun to larp.

Prove that there isn't already one.

China makes America's products. America/Europe manages global Capital (for now). Latin America and Africa provide a great deal of the natural resources.

That's pretty fucking fluid compared to the 19th century.

And how much longer will it keep itself that way? Why does America/Europe have the privilege of management? What if we descend into political chaos and corruption plagues our institutions (already happening in America)?

Definitely not fun

Also, AI isn't the thrust of Land's fear, it would only be the acceleration of the meltdown process that continues to systematize indiscriminately because that's the path to profit and power. His argument is that cyberization is evolutionarily unavoidable.

I think I'd like Nick Land more if he wasn't such a cringy show-off in his writing style.

Have you considered that he might just be better than you?

The US and UK have enacted (or in the case of the US, only really talked about) somewhat isolationist policies. In no way shape or form are they "neo-mercantilist."
Panic reactions? happen all the time, literally half of all political movements. The only ammo you're gunning with is that the west (or really just 2 nations) have moved slightly closer to "mercantilism."
>divests the first world of geographic privelege
again, nowhere close to that happening
>welfare state deterioration
in some places yes, in some places not at all
>cancerizing enclaves of domestic underdevelopment
this has always happened
>release of cultural toxins
this whole part is hard to even analyze. Cultural toxins? Speed=up the process of disintegration? Like we know what the "speed" of deterioration was in the first place??? Honestly this paragraph is one huge buzzword for apocalypse wet-dreamers

"Neomercantilism is a policy regime that encourages exports, discourages imports, controls capital movement, and centralizes currency decisions in the hands of a central government." Trump and Bernie obsessed over the import-export issue, and if Trump weren't a lame duck he'd be on top of capital control. We're not far from it. Whether or not the policy is being effected is irrelevant, the reaction that Land predicted is there.

The United States and the United Kingdom have alternatively dominated the global economic system since the Industrial Revolution. The fact that those two nations alone have turned to neo-mercantilist panic is beyond substantial.

But this being said, you're being racist by not considering the socialist/far-right resurgence among third-world nations.

You're also forgetting Putin's turn to religious nativism, which will get worse with their economic situation.

The first world's workers have already been divested of geographical privilege, a process that would be getting much worse if it weren't for the fact that ALL workers will soon be divested of any privilege by smart factories. The technology is already there, we just need the transitional process to be kicked off (probably by a global workers' revolt encouraged by the resurgent far-left/right).

The welfare state is clearly deteriorating.

By you definition, the US has been neomercantilist for decades, if not for its entire existence. By no means is the US enacting strict mercantilism and Trump or UKIPdo not espouse and radical or severely damaging version of neo-mercantilism, nor have they enacted any real measures, despite the baseness of their respective rhetoric. The Paris climate deal and UK's departure from the EU are not and have not effected much of anything. The US is not going to divorce itself from importing cheap things from China or anywhere else anytime soon.
Its not substantial because they haven't done it. The US and UK were inarguably more isolationist and protectionalist throughout various points in their history. Mercantilist policies hurt various European nations in the past, but current actual and proposed economic policies will hardly be the hardline economic isolationism that stunted economic growth in the long past.

>you're being racistby not considering the socialist/far-right resurgence among third-wlrd nations
I'm neither aware of this phenomenon nor do I see how it relates to the topic at hand (which mostly involves the socioeconomic status of the West).

Russia has yet to find its identity since 1991 and I don't see the political changes within as anything indicative of the world at large, however I will note that Russia has been under a number of sanctions and embargoes as of late so again, kinda skews the "data" behind your point.

>workers have already been divested of geographical privilege
workers haven't had those privileges since agriculture was the predominant form of work....unless you account for average wages within a geographic area, in which case they still have those privileges relative to third-worlders and will continue to have them (generally speaking) for decades.

>The welfare state is clearly deteriorating
again, in some places yes, in some places no.

So what point was he trying to make from this word soup?

Western nations are infected by planetary capital, large cities are taking in the virulence of other large cities, other nations can have access to the same planetary capital that first world nations had. Trade protectionism will be one of many many reactions to the acid of capital. So to speak. The welfare state deteriorates as more people take out than pay in. The shockwaves from these factors will ebb and flow resulting in the meltdown of human politics and these factors are inputted back into an cycle without negative feedback. Except to bail out bankers.

Land is rooting for Skynet btw. His argument about morality needing intelligence seemed on point. The problem is that there's still a variety of possible dystopias between now and when Skynet gets online.

>Why does America/Europe have the privilege of management?

"because those other (non NA/EU) guys can do it right but only we can 'do it right' "

It's like how people bitch about industry and manufacturing moving

>why are you guys leaving
>Other nations can do it just like you and for cheaper.

Now later on as the center of the world as one can say shifts further Eaet and South multinationals may feel the pull of focusing on jsut developed/ developing markets.

Because we did it first. That advantage won't last forever.

>China makes America's products
bit of a meme this

OP here
My attempt at a simple breakdown: the Western metropolis has had increasing dominance over the world for hundreds of years, but now its systems are in control, and soon they will completely overtake whatever humanity is left. The above paragraph delivers an analysis of part of that process that could be stretched into an entire book. Every word is worth parsing a dozen ways. This is from only one of his pieces, Meltdown.

Not really...