/lit/ - Literature

>>12666217
it's not valid purely by itself, but it validates the readings of the others. if Land's own career is any indication, accelerationism can be described as a theory of economic process that leads one from the most radical form of Marx to the most radical form of Mises (and arguably back again, albeit in a completely transformed fashion). if we take this quote and add a third clause
>crypto a way of protecting Capital from man
i don't feel like i've done Land an injustice. turns out you actually can get a version of Rand updated with Marx, Deleuze and Kant, fifty years later.

it's one of the stranger theories you are likely to read, but for all its flash and radicalism it is a surprisingly conservative philosophy at the bottom. it works by depriving socialism of its piety and libertarianism of its humanity, and subsequently indicts both. if there is a lacuna in Land's thought it is this: how does he expect a government to actually run? if you aren't aware of capital operating in the background, you're a dope; if you are, you're probably deceiving yourself. there are times when this reminds me of Derrida, except with process-philosophy capitalism instead of text ('il n'y a rien en dehors du capitalisme.') he's worth reading to get that far. once again the End of Philosophy is posited, and the great library has another volume added to it.

the purely economic man is probably a spook, but that we ought to turn ourselves towards the concept of intelligence again doesn't seem all that crazy to me, and it's a pretty comprehensive explanation of the way things are today, imho. he's a great critic of socialism and would be a kind of mysterious ally of Austrian-school theorists. like so many others raised on a straight diet of postmodernity the attraction to the far right is undeniable, but in this there is a mysterious added value in his work: far right politics aren't actually all that good if they don't advance the cause of capital itself. unironic Ethnat fantasies make for stirring romanticism and heroic scapegoat episodes for the economically and psychologically dispossessed, but if they don't do *more* than this the /acc criticism falls on them as much as it does on the postmodern left.

the world in which Marx and Mises are *both* correct is a strange one, but for Land that is the world in which we live.