Accelerationism Capital with Nick Land (1)

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• 00:00:00

  This episode I'm going to be speaking with Nick Land who is a philosopher, writer and blogger. We're going to be speaking about accelerationism, capital and number. First question is the typical hermitics question that I've kind of devised which kind of gives you five thinkers and I think it kind of brings to the fore…

• 00:11:48

  want to tweak this model or sort of play about with it a bit but i think hugo de garis has a really good framework for this where he sees um an impending massive conflict between uh those processes that are uh supporting the human in the way that we're doing it and supporting the kind of emergence of synthetic…

• 00:20:15

  And I think the depth of that, that necessary paranoia says a lot about the power of what it is that you're against under those circumstances. It's not that I'm against, but it's that I'm against it. And I think that's the thing that's really interesting about this is that it's not just about capital per se, because…

• 00:28:33

  If there's a confusion, which would imply that we've taken a certain path, which has just led us into this metaphysical system, which is kind of the wrong way to think about it, then if we were to go back, then what is, in your view, the way to go, which wouldn't head into confusion? If there's confusion, then what…

• 00:36:04

  And certainly the notion, the insistence that time cannot be, grasped as something in time, I think is a strictly Heideggerian formulation. And I think it's completely unexceptionable. I mean, it has to be right. So I'm not particularly wanting to distance myself or, you know, or in contrast, you know, be promoting…

• 00:45:12

  Yes. Historical time, especially in this case. Yes. It's historical time. And particularly, obviously is the, it's the, what we're talking about is the origin of capitalism is the event that generates Kabbalah. You know, as we, capitalism is generated by capitalism switching on. It's completely seamless in that…

• 00:53:21

  Refined Kantian philosophy within a world which now has absolute time, or is it to utilize the blockchain as a new means towards time in relation to accelerationism? I think I mean, there are all kinds of tasks that it says me. But I think if there's absolute sort of core to it, it's simply to try and communicate…

• 01:01:26

  It's again a wall across the future. It's the it's something other than the perpetuation. The. Perpetuation. The tired, croaking perpetuation of the last of the last man. You know, that's what we know for sure. But what it is, you know, as soon as we try to fill that in, we're just involved in a comedy exercise. And I…