/lit/ - Literature

Workplaces are the superspreader. Long-term care, factories, food processing, warehouses, grocery, fast food, big box, farm bunkhouses, work camps. Schools and childcare are workplaces - and are only opened so parents can work. We are being sacrificed for profits. Shut it down.

why does he love meth so much? it is not accelerating his brain, it's just making him retarded faster

>be nick land
>spend the 90s innovating in philosophy by stealing all my ideas from anti oedipus and a thousand plateaus but this time they're written in leetspeak
>write one good poem
>fry my brain on amphetamines and get fired for dealing amphetamines to students
>disappear from philosophy to build up rimbaud clout
>come back to philosophy by writing Cracked blogposts about hp lovecraft
>write a disjointed rant about how democracy is bad because of jersey shore
>trick grad students into buying my book because it has cool cover art
>become one of the most read living philosopers on /lit/
>epic!

>Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published was "Sì, abbiamo un'anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot – "Yes, we have a soul, but it’s made of lots of tiny robots." And I thought, exactly. That’s the view. Yes, we have a soul, but in what sense? In the sense that our brains, unlike the brains even of dogs and cats and chimpanzees and dolphins, our brains have functional structures that give our brains powers that no other brains have - powers of look-ahead, primarily. We can understand our position in the world, we can see the future, we can understand where we came from. We know that we’re here. No buffalo knows it’s a buffalo, but we jolly well know that we’re members of Homo sapiens, and it’s the knowledge that we have and the can-do, our capacity to think ahead and to reflect and to evaluate and to evaluate our evaluations, and evaluate the grounds for our evaluations. It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation

Hearing this man and his ilk gave their talks on Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Time I have never been more comfortable to pronounce something a Fraud with a capital 'f'.

And this basically angloid academia in a nutshell, even though Land is just the outcast sperg of it. Take something that you obviously have no expertise in, but it's new and shiny and has an exclusive semi-esoteric nomenclature, slap a few references to Deleuze and Marx and Kant onto it, and then sell it to the baby angloids who want to be the technocrat Nietzscheans who only ever existed in an american's mayonnaise-soaked wet dream.

>BLOCKCHAIN SOLVES SPACETIME BROOS AND ALSO CRITIQUE BROOOS WE'RE CRITIQUIIIIIIIIIIINNGGG

how can you show your face after making such claims?

i hope you realize it is only angloid world that behaves this way. all other country's academia looks at you like children smeared in Mcdonald's ketchup.

Land and other anglos take playdoh for the foundation of their philosophy. the rest of the West takes Plato. learn the difference.

Hick Rand

>>14923174

>Bergson, Sartre, Zizek, Land
Who's the next pop hack after Land?

what's his reason for livinng in shanghai? i just got back from there, and the city is horrible. surely no one would live there for quality of life

>>13519147
Where did everything go so wrong?

if nick land is good then why is old and ugly now?

no

no, he's a gross old man

What attracts you to Nick Land?

disgusting

>>11749382
>I don't know who Nick Land is but he seems cool.
He's a britbong philosopher who said the same thing back in the 90s while high on meth and artificially induced himself with schizophrenia before having too much exposure and got his brain fried.

>>11137773
The theory-fiction is the best part. The first 5 essays or so are fairly boilerplate (although genuinely innovative) academic philosophy. When it really gets revolutionary is when the amphetamines kick in.

all this accelerationist NRX shit is for hunchback losers and complete fantasy. go get some pussy instead of pondering over this shit you bitchs

someone have the land compilation the anon made? hit me up

who is the lefitst version of pic related

who is his equivalent on the left? i've heard people mention his name but forget. not looking to have an argument on right vs. left, just curious to have a look at it

use this picture when discussing land

just so everyone knows this is what he really lookslike