#NickLand explained by a philosopher

Move fast, break everything: Nick Land and accelerationism
The Philosopher's Zone podcast interviews Vincent Lê about his new book Unknown Lands: Decoding Nick Land's Accelerationist Philosophy

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/move-fast-break-everything-nick-land-and-accelerationism/106341136

Salut #fediverse !

Me voilà de retour après quelques mois d'absence suite à un crash de mon instance perso (mise à jour de #Glitchsoc qui était vérolée... Arrgh).

Comme j'étais bien occupé, je n'avais pas pris le temps ni le soin de revenir...

La bonne nouvelle, c'est que, visiblement, #mastodon and co, ça ne rend pas accro et/ou dépendant•e !

Petit plaisir d'arriver et de tomber sur un post de @finnmyrstad qui nous partage une excellente illustration de l'enshittification ou emmerdification en good french !

Comme je ne l'ai pas trouvé ailleurs que sur Vimeo 🤮 , je l'ai déposé sur une instance Peertube.

https://video.liberta.vip/w/4ZrbKqU5UCBVhqQuAQZHLs

C'est vraiment excellent et cela mériterait d'être traduit dans tout plein de langue pour que le concept soit pleinement accessible au plus grand nombre.

J'ai récemment terminé un excellent bouquin « Les lumières sombres - Comprendre la pensée Néoréactionnaire » ** (sur les auteurs des #darkenlightment ) d'Arnaud Miranda** !

https://www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/les-lumieres-sombres/9782073140326

Juste après #Apocalypsenerds Nastasia Adjadi et d'Olivier Tesquet, ça donne de véritables clés de lecture des « logiques à l'oeuvre » (si si il y en a quand on sait ce que peuvent écrire des #CurtisYarvin et autre #NickLand notamment...)

C'est vraiment deux livres à lire pour les personnes qui sont ici et qui entendent tout la journée que #DonaldTrump est fou.

https://www.editionsdivergences.com/livre/apocalypse-nerds

Au plaisir, mais surtout au plaisir de se voir dans la rue, dans les luttes ! ✊✊✊

Article in The New Yorker on how Nick Land has ‘has reemerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.’ And yet is also very much yesterday’s man. “They sounded like old fogeys,” said podcaster Justin Murphy, host of a 2020 LA conversation between Land and Curtis Yarvin, another influential neo-reactionary - an event that was also attended by Peter Theil. “We’ll remember this night as proof that the Dark Enlightenment is over.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher

#philosophy #theory #nickland #curtisyarvin #reactionary #petertheil

"In 2008, the academic Benjamin Noys coined the word “accelerationism” to describe Land’s vision of capitalism as an unstoppable force and traditional politics as its enemy; the term was first taken up by leftists (who argued that unfettered technological progress would lead to a fully automated socialist utopia), and then by neo-Nazis (who imagined fomenting social breakdown through terrorism). By 2022, when the machine-learning revolution had entered full swing, some in Silicon Valley began to talk of “effective accelerationism” as they advocated removing any political or moral checks on technology. Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, posted, “You cannot out-accelerate me” on X; Andreessen published his widely shared “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” calling for “the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development . . . to ensure the techno-capital upward spiral continues forever.” In 1993, Land had described capitalism as “an invasion from the future” by an artificial intelligence that had come back in time to assemble itself from “enemy resources”—that is, mankind. Three decades later, many in Silicon Valley are starting to believe that superintelligence is on the horizon and approaching fast. If A.I. takeover is inevitable, then maybe resistance is futile. What if, instead of trying to stop it, you joined it?

“Increasingly, there are only two basic human types populating this planet,” Land wrote in 2013. “There are autistic nerds, who alone are capable of participating effectively in the advanced technological processes that characterize the emerging economy, and there is everybody else. For everybody else, this situation is uncomfortable.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher

#Accelerationism #NickLand #Capitalism #AI #AGI

Most people with any interest in tech or politics (and especially both) will have heard of Curtis Yarvin. But I still see little discussion of Nick Land, the Ayn Rand of our time. Who came up a lot of the anti-democratic, techno-accelerationist and self-important dogma preached by Yarvin and his ilk.

This short video by @Sisyphus55 gives some background, including his early association with Mark Fisher, which was news to me;

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJISIwit0tk

#NickLand #Accelerationism #CurtisYarvin

“Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself

– Nick Land (in the pre-fascist days)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkmWfh8cUY

#Jouissance #NickLand