CCRU - Lecture 3

Provenance

Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

Listen

Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: standalone. Source: audio original (.mp3).

Timestamped map

These jump targets come from timestamps preserved in the source transcript, so they work as navigational anchors rather than editorially invented section labels. Timings are approximate — they mark where a passage begins, not exact word timing.

• 00:00:03

  All right, 6.30, let's do this. OK, so we're now moving on to the sort of second module, loose, very loose module, focusing on Land's post-CCRU writings. So, as always, this lecture is going to be broken down into two parts, actually kind of sort of three, as we'll see. But certainly the first half is going to explore…

• 00:16:59

  Instead, in place of white nationalism and libertarianism, Moldbug proposes a theory that he calls formalism or neocameralism. So like Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, pictured there, Moldbug holds that the fundamental evil that social governance should be designed to prevent is disorder, anarchy, and violence. According…

• 00:28:24

  The anti-versity would begin by developing alternative media outlets and think tanks to counter the mainstream press and the university. This would then reshape public opinion, such that it is conducive to the emergence of a new political party which seeks to enact a neo-capitalist program. And finally, the party…

• 00:40:23

  Yeah, as early as a 2005 hypersensitivity blog post called Open Darwin Thread on the CCRU blog, Land already made the point that the debate between blank slate social constructivists and biological determinists is fundamentally misguided insofar as both sides, as he puts it, leave out the bio-libertarian alternative…

• 00:51:57

  It's like we've already got, like, the proto-model of it, right? Already. Like, and... And it's not a coincidence that Lan caused Deng Xiaoping, one of the three transcendental geniuses, to become a communist, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

• 01:23:26

  to the sameness of our self-reflection Land gives three examples of truly abstract monsters all of which are you know kind of actually perhaps surprising in that they come from what could probably be better described as science fiction than horror films So namely the three examples are the T-1000 in Terminator that's…

• 01:43:22

  So he says, The world was not integrated by togetherness, but by a succession of particular powers with their characteristic traits, legacies and parochialisms, their science should be meticulously conserved and studied rather than clumsily effaced because they are critical clues to the real nature of fate. What Land…

• 01:57:52

  Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, yeah, fair enough, yeah. Any other comments? Otherwise, we'll leave it there. Cool. Thank you.