Accelerationism Capital with Nick Land

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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…

• 00:06:53

  And that is because capital, is at its, in its fundamentals, nothing but a self-amplifying diagram that will, you know, every attempt to sort of fix a particular epoch or set of characteristics of capital that concretizes it beyond that abstract loop, tends to be just outflanked and enveloped by the actual process…

• 00:14:52

  Humanity essentially will be the resistance. Is that resistance going to be strong enough to stabilize itself as something separate as something post capital? Or will that eventually be just to, to win? Sorry. I obviously, again, I mean, this is, you're not, this is nothing wrong with this. I think it's, it's great…

• 00:26:25

  I think it's the impossibility of stopping escape. But the escape is not for us. It's the escape from us. That is, that is the phenomenon that we're dealing with. But on the, on the substantial philosophical question, I think the line I would take on this, because I know it does get talked about a lot and it's still…

• 00:37:26

  extreme limits the amount of intelligence explosion okay so me and nick both had pretty bad connection issues throughout this so there's a 10 minute loss here but the 10 minutes of conversation took us from the previous section on kantian space time and we began to speak about how number in general can be utilized…

• 00:47:22

  It's actually, it registers historical transition because of the fact that you have a traditional convention. Replicated into an epoch where it seems simply mistaken. But I think mistakes are, I think the Kabbalistic sort of commitment is that mistakes are rarely as simple as they seem. Okay. So if, are you happy…

• 00:55:03

  Well, I, I have to do a kind of my, I've got a preface that is supposed to be a kind of overview. And I'm working on a version of that, that I'm going to submit to a journal at the end of this month. So, so that's forcing me to get at least that one bit completely just nailed down. But I mean, the economics, the, I've…

• 01:01:28

  It's something other than the perpetuation, the tired, croaking perpetuation 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 think that that's the strongest. Yeah. That's the strongest connection that…