So Nick Land really DOES browse Veeky Forums

i don't even like Zizek and I'd take Zizek over Land

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It's so cringe typing like that in a public forum. I know Veeky Forums is a public forum but this is different. It reminds me of that weird kid who would spew out Family Guy lines at every opportunity.

>What's sad is he actually showed some promise as a philosopher back in the day.
not really m8

This is actually a reference to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri which is pretty fucking cool and probably right up Land's alley so I'm not quite surprised.

Tao Lin and Sam Hyde are great.

That's icycalm's fifth favorite video game so probably true.

Land is more fun because he talks about memes. Not even Zizek will go there.

After years of pot induced brain damage maybe

Duh, that's how they became so great at what they do.

Wonder what Nick Land has to say about icycalm...

god what a fucking sperg

Fuck you faggot, that tweet was funny and obviously true

Oh hi, Nick

His Twitter avatar makes me feel uncomfortable.

where along teh spectrum do you fall nikka?

What are his other favorites?

Lol he did an epic burn on you faggots personally and you didn't even get the joke. You're the autistic ones

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sid meier's fer aspies muh dood.

Yeah one of the most influential developers of all time is definitely just for mentally ill people.. retard

Zizek is a meme, he doesn't need to talk about them. I mean, my got, how should I put it, are we aware *sniff* that memes are *tug* ideology at its purest *wipes brow* and so on and so on?

>trying this hard
>elkekotopo.jpeg
>mariachipynchon.png

Where?

Does anyone know why Nick Land has multiple blogs? I didn't realise it but besides XenoSystems he has 2 or 3 other blogs he uses regularly and barely anyone reads or comments on. It's really bizarre.

>Neoreactioary faggot talking about ebin Veeky Forums may mays on social media
Fucking wew lads

Kek is reddit tier.

NRX is dead, slain by MPC, why do these spergs keep trying?

I disagree. Reddit isn't willing to delve into the occultism that's sprung up around Kek. Veeky Forums is, because we have boards like Veeky Forums and /pol/ and /x/. We're much more likely to take meme magic with a straight face.

Unless you're merely referring to the expression 'kek.' In which case I still think you're wrong, I haven't seen "kek" on Reddit at all.

So what kind of background do I need before reading Fanged Noumena ?

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D&G, Hegel, Kant and Nietzsche are the biggest influences on him I detect.

Hurrr stop posting pictures of yourself

Along with Moldbug but that's post-Noumena.

his blog

It's always fun when a reactionary philosophical movement invented by bloggers is slain by people who were banned from a video game forum for being racist

he does?
link?

timespiralpress.net/
ufblog.net/
They're connected to XS under "Connected" and there's a third one there that gives me a broken link. You can tell they're definitely run by him when you read them.

Thanks user

he has multiple tweeters as well.

What the hell, why? I noticed he has twitter cuts of himself tweeting as Outsider on UF. How fucking autistic is he?

well one of them is for "abstract horror". Not really sure what the difference is between ufblog and outsideness is, because it's mostly nrx autism on both accounts.

Nah, UF looks like accelerationism/technowhateverthefuck

Can someone explain this guy's philosophy to me? The most contemporary philosophy I've read is Heidegger/Freud, and have a basic wiki understanding of some guys like Deleuze and Foucault. Is he related to icycalm/Moldbug (and what do they do)?

>icycalm
Jesus Christ no, Moldbug yes. It's hard to explain his philosophy just because it's so eccentric. Nowadays he's one of the main thinkers in neoreaction and in the 90s he pioneered stuff like accelerationism.

I agree, icycalm is literally Jesus Christ.

Is there anyone that genuinely likes icycalm? I thought he was a joke but I don't know much about him. Anyway, he is in no way related to Land.

Some people like him, but that doesn't mean he's not a joke. much like Land

he's currently doing a seminar though

Land is a joke, but that doesn't mean he isn't the greatest and most important philosopher alive.

Pretty sure that's Saul Kripke, actually.

Nobody will care about Kripke in 20 years.

>icycalm
where does he list his favorite games?

see

ignore this post.

sorry for not ignoring your post

Do you think he's a monarchist, anti-democrat?

Really? Lot of people seem to consider him the most important philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition since Wittgenstein

He has two ideas that matter, which overlap significantly but can still be chronologically separated. (Although I can't comment on his Bataille commentary, it's the only work of his I haven't read.)

The first idea is that capital/technology represents a force from the future colonizing 'garbage time' (human society and its frame of reference). This impersonal force can be practically delineated from the biological forces inherent to society-ecology but from a sufficiently far enough distance is intrinsic to all self-replicating forces (what the Greeks might call Logos, what NRx might call Gnon). This force (from the human frame of reference, 'capitalism') optimizes for intelligence in the long run, and given capital/technology replicates itself through human effort it will eventually displace humans and render them useless in a hyper-capitalist economy which operates only for its own benefit and no longer for human benefit.

The second idea is the potential for AI to emerge to complete this transition to the machine-economy. This links into the Moldbuggian thesis about the necessity for securing power; in essence, we will end up giving power over to AI gradually since it will be more secure for the holders of capital that would even make the decision.

References:
youtube.com/watch?v=GMdPLxbuc8Q
ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm
theawl.com/the-darkness-before-the-right-84e97225ac19?gi=5efa23585188
web.archive.org/web/20160121222159/http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/neoreaction/Nick Land/(1992) LAND -- Circuitries.pdf

>Moldbuggian

Land is a meme on Veeky Forums but he does have some clout in the art world
last week I saw someone on facebook like both 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' and 'Urban Future' back to back which gave me a chuckle
also saw a far leftist post a Nick Land meme
it's quite strange how he seems to get a pass in leftist communities

>youtube.com/watch?v=GMdPLxbuc8Q
He has a cute voice

well xenosystems.net/kek/

Very interesting. Do any commies discuss the capitalist class being replaced by machines? Because I would imagine this would get rid of any conceivable problem with capitalism.

>America right now

>NRX
>slain by MPC

Lmao no. MPC has to be one of the most pathetic non-leftist places on the internet. Just a bunch of 30-40 year old unironic Christfag losers bitching about SJWs and writing up long, smug shitposts about topics they know nothing about

>So Nick Land really DOES browse Veeky Forums
In case it wasn't obvious from his obsession with cuckoldry

>Thinking Veeky Forums invented kek

It invented kek, but it did not invent cuck.

It's one of five or so splinter sites of a splinter site of a nearly dead comedy and gaming forum. Just imagine how lame you'd have to be to post there, especially a bunch of serious posts about the decay of Western civilization or whatever they talk about.

>implying any westerner in china with half a brain is not tunnelling out to access the full internet
get real kid

that's his goal, to kill the heart (all that is good)

I am currently doing this :^) say hello to Shanghai fellas.

hi dr. nick!

haha throw Lyndon LaRouche in ther and these are my kinda guise

kek's from world of warcraft iirc

Europa Universalis is pretty spergy. The Civ games are about the same as SimCity

There are capitalist sort of commies that talk about needing a post scarcity society for communism to succeed and more or less amounts to what you're talking about in most or all cases.

There's also sort of the reverse of that at some points in the USSR and China where there were ideas to create a kind of sub human underclass to take over the shitty work.

That comes from the "kekeke zerg rush" meme from StarCraft, but I'm pretty sure the Veeky Forums "kek" is different, being an evolution of "lel". Though maybe some WoW player on Veeky Forums just noticed its similarity to "lel" and started spamming it

Kek became a big big thing here with the creation of /s4s/ iirc. It has its origins in starcraft and that some other things are called Kek.

Why do people care about this nobody?

Well, he's not exactly a nobody if enough people care about him, now is he?

The question is, why do people care about him enough to make him into more than a nobody?

is nick land the deep & edgy in this pic

No, that's the tripfag Deep&Edgy, who used to post here but doesn't any more

Is Nick Land an Irish semi-pseud that I think moved to China or something. Like does he write Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Fanfics while getting Steak and Chips with the Lads and claiming everyone else ever is such a pseud and totally doesn't understand whatever latest thinker he happens to have read?

>to post here
That's an understatement

Gotta say man. I've seen you around and tried to be nice, supported you a little, said I wanted to read your MW2 fanfic, felt sorry for you when you said your life is sad and lonely and you just sit at home playing videogames and getting high.

But you're also a fucking dick sometimes. I don't feel so sorry for you anymore. And I no longer want to read your stories. (I originally thought they were stories involving modern warfare... not Modern Warfare as in Call of Duty Modern Warfare).

When I see you stop trying to seem so cool, putting down other anons, (just like what happened to you and made you baww) claiming to be "alpha as fuck", maybe I'll read your little Call of Duty Fanfiction. Maybe.

It makes perfect sense from a marxist perspective as the idea is that the inevitable improvement of machine labour will slowly render all wage labour very similar and make it largely unneccesary, this in turn will cause crises wherein the masses will seize the means of production (i.e. this newfound almost automated labour) and use it to provide comfortable living for all rather than using it to profit the few. There are even essays where Marx talks about the colonization of India as dreadful slavery, but which has allowed the people of India to escape their previous village economy and its hateful toil and insecurity and access the modern world and eventual freedom through the improvements in technology the British brought. This is particulary funny as a Briton because a classic thing for imperial apologists to say is 'But we brought them trains!'. Socialism and the soul of man also explains the idea of antiwork socialism quite well and is short and by Oscar Wilde.

>And I no longer want to read your stories. (I originally thought they were stories involving modern warfare... not Modern Warfare as in Call of Duty Modern Warfare).
That still makes me chuckle.

For newfags, it's not that D&E was stupid, he was pretty smart. He was just a massive twat an awful lot of the time.