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Only proto-capitalism has ever been critiqued.

— Nick Land Machinic Desire (1993)

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Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

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Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.

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It might be argued that civilization is nothing else, that is to say: the tendency of personal authority to decline towards zero.

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