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.

— Nick Land The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992)

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