What's his name again?

I'm surprised you haven't been banned yet, but I'm enjoying your unique take on views in a multitude of threads.

He started as a Marxist, switched to studying "cybernetic culture", took a huge amount of meth, and now thinks a bunch of autonomous city-states would be a good idea. Also thinks a combination of accelerating capitalism and AI developments will bring about some sort of malevolent posthuman god called Gnon. Big Sinophile.

See I think you were trying to put me off writing that but if anything I'm more interested.

>See I think you were trying to put me off
Wouldn't dream of it. I don't really agree with him on much, but he's a fascinating character - would recommend trying the fiction stories Phyl Undhu and Chasm, which express some of his ideas in a more digestible horror-story form before taking the plunge on Fanged Noumena, though. The prose on his essays can be pretty impenetrable in places.

I've developed strange mixed feeling about Marxian ideas, and I haven't worked it all out yet. I believe in natural hierarchies, and despise the egalitarian conceit of Marxists, but I think Marxism persists, despite have no surviving predictive capacity, because modernity cannot be undone. There's not going back, and people all perceive the impossibility of arranging human civilization on immaterial precepts ever again.

Marxism doesn't offer a viable solution, but it has still right about the problem of modernity. Why the fuck did Nietzsche have to die before finishing his work?

what the fuck was going on with phyl-undhu. It seemed so disjointed. If the second half in the sim was the whole story I might have enjoyed it more but I felt like there was a puzzle I was supposed to put together but didn't. I assume the sim was the great filter? Was it an accurate sim of the future? Is it somehow connected to the AI-God/Land's self-insert? Why did it end so abruptly?

To be clear, he's no longer a Marxist - he seems to think the human species as we know it is essentially finished, with no point in anything but accelerationism.

Oh, I know he's not a Marxist, but I actual think his early Marxism positively informed his view of humanity. Imagine stripping Marxism of it's blank slate humanity, an dialectical materialism. Yes, it'd no longer Marxism, but you still have a modernist sensibility that sees the the inability of immaterially defined moral imperatives to shape civilization after the Death of God. Maybe the answer is to allow the evolution Burko-Darwinian social systems that can take the place of our current civilization, but I fear that is going to require of few more decades of post-modern pseudochristian Progressive society that will probably result in millions dead, and considerable dysgenic population trends before it exhausts itself like a last gasp of the old moral order of the west from which it descends.

Maybe Land's Sinophilia comes from admiring a society that was never built on monotheistic certainties, and that thus seems to require fewer convulsions and cultural spasms to fit itself into modernity.

Maybe the west was destined to die.

This is the uncomfortable shit that Land forces me to think about.

The West is a big Jesus, and its civilization is a form that is to become 'completed' for the post-formal, post-inform to function properly. Art has been doing it since the Renaissance. It's literally our destiny; a hyperstition from the Italian city states through to the final realization of the Hegelian project. The Situationists knew. We embody the image of sin so we can be judged by ourselves on the cross, and when we are killed and buried by the flesh that has defined us since the fall of the first man, we can rise again to complete the redemption of all humanity. Letting that flesh go is the hard part.

NRx = Veeky Forums reads Hobbes and Classical Chinese and Continental Philosophy, goes as well as expected