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...
I’m happy to keep engaging with you, but only on the condition of good faith. Land is in any case less willfully obscure than Heidegger. The second essay I recced might be better for you since you have some point of reference.
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You misread the core concept of the essay. The machinic unconscious is "the auto-production of the real," i.e. nothing exists except as it is produced by "machines,”as as thermodynamic gradients, or as complex as the human body, or as abstract as capital.
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The machinic unconscious has existed and will exist for as long as difference (i.e. thermodynamic gradient) exists. Machinic desire is affirmation of difference.
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This primary production is more fundamental to the “real” than secondary processes like “consciousness" or “care.” To stake all value on the secondary is an idealist confusion.
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Exclusive focus on the secondary process leaves us closed to the unknown (or “completely unrecognizable”) possibilities lurking in the machinic unconscious, trapped in the death-bound individuated ego.
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“We have reached the final chapter of being: The Human.” This is the rejection of difference, which is to say, nihilism. Good thing endless parochial humanism is impossible, on a physical level. As long as we have thermodynamics gradients, being will be changeable and insecure.
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Some conments: 1) I am not interested in insulting you — I simply gave you my frank impression of thoughts running through my head reading a Nick Land essay.
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2) I do not consider myself as placing too much emphasis on consciousness (of which Care is part of) — I am fully at ease with the materialist viewpoint that consciousness is an emergent phantom of some machinistic process
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3) my problem is that of mutualism — it is pointless to care about something that 1) does not care about you 2) has no trace of you. E.g. children may not care about me that much — but they will still have my trace (you can interpret this genetically or spiritually whatever)
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