"accelerate the contradictions of capitalism by rooting for continued slavery over industrial capitalism so we can get to fascism communism faster"-not karl marx
"The Dark Enlightenment, or neoreactionary movement, or just neoreaction (abbreviated NRx by proponents)
he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru). He is the author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism and has also authored various pieces on theory, modernity, capitalism, cybernetics, technology, time, and aesthetics. Many of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
"the phrase "neo-reactionary" was used in adjectival form by "Mencius Moldbug" (the pseudonym of computer programmer Curtis Yarvin, the author of the Openwave WAP web browser)"
it's weird I knew about all these things but reading about them all in one spot makes you realize how much its exactly like a bad shadowrun larp
What happened was that Nick Land vanished, and then a bunch of Continental Marxists types built of his work for years, even holding a conference on Nick Land he wasn't invited to because everyone thought he was gone for good, and then they released the Accelerationist Manifesto, and that was the point at which Nick Land resurfaced and began agitating for neo-fascism.
And it was like "lol, woops, guess we have to distance ourselves from our founder"
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he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru). He is the author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism and has also authored various pieces on theory, modernity, capitalism, cybernetics, technology, time, and aesthetics. Many of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
Notable ideas
Hyperstition Accelerationism Libidinal Materialism Tic-Xenotation Numogramatics"
wow this is a strong aesthetic he has going on here
it's weird I knew about all these things but reading about them all in one spot makes you realize how much its exactly like a bad shadowrun larp
memes actually are the dna of the soul