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Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.
Meltdown (1994)
Kant's critical philosophy is the most elaborate fit of panic in the history of the Earth.
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992)
Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992)
It might be argued that civilization is nothing else, that is to say: the tendency of personal authority to decline towards zero.
Neo-China arrives from the future.
Meltdown (1994)
I dream of the damnation I have so amply earned, stolen from me by the indolence of God.
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992)
A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.
What appears as disaster postponed is, in virtual reality, disaster expanded.
Only proto-capitalism has ever been critiqued.
Machinic Desire (1993)
Among complex systems, stability is typically meta-stability, which is preserved through cycling, whilst growth and shrinkage are often components of a larger-scale, cyclic wave.
Garbage time is running out. Can what is playing you make it to level-2?
Meltdown (1994)
The current time is a period of transition, with a distinctive quality, characterizing the end of an epoch. Something – some age – is coming quite rapidly to an end.
Time in Transition (2011)
Rituals of belonging (ordeals, oaths, rites of passage) are designed to disambiguate membership.
Kinds of Killing (2011)
All historical evidence seems to be that the party of chaos is suppressed by the party of order.
The Only Thing I Would Impose is Fragmentation’ Interview with Nick Land (2017)
Christianity is certainly not essentially communism, but it spawns communistic mutants with the same inevitability that Creation spawns devils and sin.
Socialism has typically been a nostalgic diatribe against underdeveloped capitalism, finding its eschatological soap-boxes amongst the relics of precapitalist territorialities.
Machinic Desire (1993)
Bitcoin accelerates the advance of monetary theory into cybernetic fundamentalism. It’s turtles – or, more precisely, feedback dynamics – all the way down.
Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy’ §5.741 (2018)
Dead labour is far harder to control than the live stuff was, which is why the enlightenment project of interring gothic superstition was the royal road to the first truly vampiric civilization, in which death alone comes to rule.
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992)
Like Hell, or Auschwitz, the Cracker Factory has a simple slogan inscribed upon its gate: Escape is racist.
The Dark Enlightenment (2012)
Without attachment to anything beyond its own abysmal exuberance, capitalism identifies itself with desire to a degree that cannot imaginably be exceeded...
Critique of Transcendental Miserablism (2007)