Fanged Noumena
Collected Writings 1987-2007
by Nick Land, Robin Mackay, Ray Brassier · first published 2011
33% recommend56% neutral11% critical
Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out. Can what is playing you make it to Level 2? Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the writings of Nick Land, variously described as 'rabid nihilism', 'Deleuzian Thatcherism', 'accelerationism', and 'cybergothic'. Wielding weaponised, machinically-recombined versions of Deleuze and Guattari, Reich and Freud, in the company of fellow 'werewolves' such as Nietzsche, Bataille, Artaud, Trakl and
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Nietzsche is on the list, but Nick Land's Fanged Noumena is clearly missing. As Mark Fisher has written about Land's work: "There was a great deal of cyber-theory around in the 1990s but none of it seemed to come from inside the machines – which is to say,…
on “List of books that will induce a mindfuck” ↗…merciless and hilarious attack on sanctimonious and ritualistic Buddhism, displaying the role of sarcasm and wit in spirituality, and generally just shouting "wake up, lazy pretentious idiot" on every page. Fanged Noumena by Nick Land for diving deeply into amphetaminic insanity thus accurately mirroring the schizophrenia of postmodern capitalism. The letters of Van Gogh. Phillip Lopate's personal essays. Hyperobjects…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?” ↗…you like, use it. Multiplicities! I would say that you need Inventing the future, that while being limited in many things, is a necessary read. Then proceed with Capitalist Realism and if you like it, Fanged Noumena.
on “Accelerationism” ↗…to back pain?) They literally describe their thought as being "Schizoanalysis". How many more red flags do you need? Also, the more "modern" takes on this from techno folks, such as from Nick Land (Fanged Noumena), are openly fascist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment If you want cultural critique from smart people without it turning into fashionable nonsense, I recommend Mark Fischer, but be…
on “Simply explained: How does GPT work?” ↗…savory territory [3] more recently; I view that era more as a cautionary tale than anything. [1] http://www.comatonse.com/writings/becoming-minor.html [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10838202-fanged-noumena [3] https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introdu...
on “Deconstructing Jackie” ↗Actually, the e/acc community has stated it rejects Nick Land's more recent work. If you read older posts, you'll find the earlier e/acc members got started with Fanged Noumena.
on “"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom” ↗…note that Nick Land was initially on board with D&G's vision, but later departed from it based on his changed understanding of capitalism. As Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier write in their introduction to Fanged Noumena: "From Land's initial characterisation of the revolutionary task as one of pushing capitalism to the point of its auto-dissolution via the complete dis-inhibition of productive synthesis — a dis-inhibition…
on “Sorry e/acc, Accelerationism is Anti-Capitalist to its Core” ↗…glamorized in right-wing spaces. So the label "right-coded" seems appropriate. All in all your comment caused some confusion. I know a handful of "extreme" left-wing, liberal arts people who are enamoured by "Fanged Noumena" whose author is the infamous nrx, 'hyper-racist' father of accelerationism Nick Land. So the politics don't seem to be the problem. My gut instinct was that you have fallen for the meme/propaganda,…
on “The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)” ↗…how capitalism operationalizes science fiction (distilled in the concept of Hyperstition). Viewed through this lens, prices encode "distributed SF narratives." [0] [0] Nick Land (1995). No Future in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Urbanomic, p. 396.
on “System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]” ↗> I personally think Land is worth reading (critically) I agree, perhaps... I think I got something out of slogging my way through Fanged Noumena (although I did throw in the towel near the end--there's an essay written entirely LiKe ThIs and I just bounced off of it, DNF). If we are talking about accelerationism(s) instead of cybernetics, I much…
on “Project Cybersyn” ↗…us. All the machines work for us" Mark might find it fashionable to quote Land but I'm unsure if he's actually read him. Here's what Land had to say on the techno-capital machine working for us, from Fanged Noumena: “Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero…
on “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” ↗