Can we have a good old fashioned Nick Land thread? Why is he right about everything, bros?

Can we have a good old fashioned Nick Land thread? Why is he right about everything, bros?

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How have you facilitated accelerationism lately, Veeky Forums?

>Posted from Tokyo, first time in Japan, which is awesome so far. An open society without being stupid about it would be the NRx fast-summary (sound, but limited). It was vastly easier to get into Japan than the United States.

>Staying in the AirB&B equivalent of a coffin-hotel, but the situation is good (in Ueno).

>Civilization level meets high expectations, and friendliness level exceeds them.
>Much more English signage than expected, and the inherited Chinese characters have preserved their meanings, if not their phonological values, so the urban landscape is surprisingly intelligible.
>Micro-artisan businesses of extreme excellence, typically run by elderly people, are everywhere.
>Automation dialed up to eleven.
>Yet to see a single over-weight person (which out-performs the stereotype).
Is Japan the geopolitical equivalent of Paradise?

I threw a glass bottle in the bin and didn't recycle it.

I feel like Nick Land is an edgy fanboy of the already tryhard faggot Foucault,but at least Foucault had the balls to get out there and get pozzed.

Stop posting these shitty threads about yourself jesus

someone link me toward his thoughts on the blockchain

How do I get into Land (is there a chart?)

Is there a "top posts" selection from his blog like for Scott Alexander, or a Gentle Introduction/Open Letter equivalent of Moldbug? Is one supposed to just jump into Fanged Noumena or is that too divorced from his current Neoreaction?

> is that too divorced from his current Neoreaction

you mean random anti-establishment tweets? I guess, neoreaction as a movement has failed to immunize itself against the forces detailed in moldbug's UR, another problem is that there /is/ an technocratic aristocracy, you're just not in it, because bloggers with greek statue avatars don't work for SkunkWorks

Nick Land's old cyberculture (ccru) stuff and fellows are far more interesting, so yes

anyone know why the InfiniteSynths twitter is missing today?

>another problem is that there /is/ an technocratic aristocracy

Larry Summers-tier jew autists are just soulless bureaucrats and our technocratic overlords are likewise just spineless spectrumfags. There's obvious exceptions, but where is the spirit and command? Our technocrats are epiphenomenal scuzzlings who have all that wealth yet feel and behave as though they were powerless

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>Larry Summers

if the person you listed has a public wikipedia article they're probably not part of the techno-aristocracy

>where is the spirit and command?

amongst themselves, why is it that /pol/tards think the people that rule them care about them as anything other than meatbags, you've yet to differentiate yourself from the other peasants

>if the person you listed has a public wikipedia article they're probably not part of the techno-aristocracy

Bill Gates?

Peter Thiel, who is currently in government?

lesser vassals, they're not major players in deep state intelligence groups and research, just businessmen

Got some fresh OC

considering many of them are living in poverty to the point where sleeping in cyber cafes is a documented phenomenon, no. plus the work culture

I'm talking out my ass but don't the trains out of Tokyo stop running after midnight? If you want to stay in the city you end up burning six hours at McDonalds or an Internet cafe waiting for the first train.

acceeeeeeeeeeeeeeleration time come on !

I'm betting eventually NRx will converge with SV Tech libertarianism and the remanants of the neoliberal managerial class

>NRx will converge with SV Tech libertarianism

that's basically who Yarvin is, if you're living off your business and tech contributions while developing an alternative information exchange market contra to the current internet state (Urbit, which happened to get Thiel money) while not doing much about the meatspace state you're acting a whole lot like a merchant/artisan libertarian and not very much like a revolutionary monarchist

I'm fairly certain Moldbug was an alter-ego of political discourse at autistic levels of detail and technical exploration rather than what Yarvin actually loses sleep over at night

as for the actual body of NRx, a lot of them are still in the serf class

>remanants of the neoliberal managerial class

I don't see it, NRx are too obsessed with purity and neoliberals are cross pollinating with the marxist POC bloc, especially now Trump took a defibrillator to US politics

Where the hell do Moldbug and Land fit in? It seems much of the Neoreaction is focused on race and whatnot while Moldbug only seemed to pay that lip service while keeping himself to authoritarian liberalism and Land just sort of word vomits.

its deleuze achually

>keeping himself to authoritarian liberalism

NRx still gets their phones from apple and google, their antibiotics from pfizer and bayer, their national security from deep state machinations, they're no better for making human biodiversity tweets or being part of the Hestia society's email chain

>much of the Neoreaction is focused on race
>(citation needed)

HBD is reality of the state, but Moldbug didn't post much about it because its really easy to find statistics and historiography on race, dissecting the current state of affairs was more interesting to readers which is why Moldbug was allowed to partake in public political debates in SF where there was a possibility to take him seriously unlike Richard Spencer who is just a provocateur businessman who showed up to TAMU and had a shit-slinging contest following a performance piece on "identity", something a capitalist universe doesn't care about

>Where the hell do Moldbug and Land fit in?

does it matter? if you actually followed the NRx you'd have already seen spectrum charts detailing that question

I don't know what you thought I meant by authoritarian liberalism, but I simply meant that it seems Moldbug wants some level of dictator/absolute ruler to enforce what amounts to classical liberalism (eventually.)

Your answers were unsatisfying, I guess, I'm just fascinated by all of this as it's the only intellectually exciting thing in politics for awhile.

>Moldbug wants some level of dictator/absolute ruler to enforce what amounts to classical liberalism

what is interesting about Moldbug is not necessarily what he wrote but /when/ it was written, anyone equally knowledgeable in the 70s could have written a scathing critique and dissection of the systems Moldbug described, nothing new except the scale of the tumor is new. The timing of UR is what is interesting, here's a section whose true content could only exist in 2008

from unqualified reservations, "OL6 : the lost theory of government":

"find the world's best CEO, and give him undivided control over budget, policy and personnel. I don't think there is any debate about it. The world's best CEO is Steve Jobs...Which would you rather live in: California as it is today, or Applefornia? Which would you rather carry: the iPhone, or the Calphone? I rest my case."

so for a moment, ignore the case specificity of Apple, the company, and instead focus on the services being provided here: a smartphone. A smartphone is probably the object par excellence for representation of the current zeitgeist and trajectory of the age.

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it's literally "for dummies"

>Journal articles
Meltdown
Machinic Desire
Shamanic Nietzsche
Circuitries
Art as insurrection: the question of aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche


>Blog
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Rather than Marxism, it's a form of post Foucaldian micro management of society, not at all incompatible with the drive towards quantification and bureaucratisation. In fact 'political correctness' is one of the mai pillars of Managerial power, the few actual remaining non identity roam Marxists, are just somewhere between useful idiots and a minor annoyance. Most high level managers don't even bother to hide the contempt they feel for them.

*non identitarian Marxists

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What is an iPhone? An iPhone is a personal assistant, state and corporate surveillance device, data harvesting and distribution network, mobile security blanket (steal a tourist's phone in a foreign land and watch their reaction), cultural umbilical cord via facebook et al, memory bank. and trajectory ("does it work on my iPhone?", "can you send it to my iPhone?", "I forgot my iPhone", "my iPhone broke, I need a new one", "I'll order some food on my iPhone"). It's only competitor in the domain of the totalitarianisation of human needs and desires is probably God.

God died, the iPhone has only just recently been born. The progenitors of classical liberalism had not an inkling of the future defined along the iPhone trajectory. The role of an aristocracy in Moldbug's vision isn't just a CEO position as he put so blandly, a techno-aristocracy is now the Father(s) of GodPhone.

UR is fairly tame reading at our current point in the trajectory, but applied further in time and you're venturing into Land territory.

land's thought is more relevant than ever now that trump is in. he's literally saying "just as planned"

What's the goal of this thread

whats the goal of this board?

To discuss Nick Land

Land's twitter/blog are good insight porn but he gives off strong "wore a trenchcoat everyday in highschool" vibes, has ego issues, + his longer writings OD on continental philosophy.

subtle trolling of people who think shit got real fast. fast not unlike accelerationism. land went from cool guy to taboomeme in trump seconds flat.

deep state can be overestimated. Look at how the CIA shat their pants for weeks before the inauguration, to no avail.

>he gives off strong "wore a trenchcoat everyday in highschool" vibes
Is this bad?

for him, yeah. you gotta let that shit go.

big brain small soul

put another way, the wounded adolescent's posture of being dark and misanthropic is embarassing in a middle-aged man

to an extent i speak of my own past as well, btw. Not judging, just observing