One the one hand, I am pro-tech (more pro-space than pro-AI tbh). On the other hand, it seems to be an objective fact that people who don’t have a lot of sex are responsible for some of the most oppressive totalitarian societies out there.
You're not even wrong in a sense, and Land isn't an easy author. But he is as serious of a philosopher as any living English-speaker.
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Pure illustration here... I've read enough Freud to know that Thanatos was his mistake (it doesn't exist). So I'm reading Land and he mentions Thanatos passingly... I am grasping my hair... Why... it's a vague reference to an inaccurate concept... Dammit.
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Machinic desire doesn't erase traditions... it creates new ones, equally stupid ones... because it's not machinic desire at the end... there is a human at the end... not a very attractive specimen, but a human one
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If substitution of protein crystals (or RNA crystals?) with DNA was deterritorialization, it means nothing to us... It's absurd to imagine a crystalline form "caring" about its DNA-based descendants... they are not like it by definition....
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Machinistic desire is a meaningless term... it's absurd to even contemplate much less to greet or expect its arrival... The looking glass I talked about will either contain it or transform it into something completely unrecognizable.
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Capital ends where desire ends, so there is no capitalism behind the looking glass... there is something else... we cannot know what that something else is... therefore it's absurd for us to talk about it... "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence" etc
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It's not "capital" that's "de-territorializing" family systems in our world... it's a specific ruling structure... that ruling structure reproduces itself in ways that are almost orthogonal to capitalism...
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Basically my take on this is that nothing here makes sense... It's full of bad assumptions and worse analysis... Maybe a closer study of evolutionary biology can set Nick Land straight https://twitter.com/biodysphoria/status/1012207679333371904 …
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It reads to me as a shamanic chant by reading which I am expected to switch into a hallucinatory mode and welcome some weird death ritual where I am dismembered by a Machine God or something... to which I say F U machine god, you can do whatever, but after I'm dead.
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