Ideology Intelligence and Capital with Nick Land

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• 00:00:00

  you're basically one of the leading thinkers, I would say, arguably the leading thinker of what we might call the school of thought that's known as accelerationism. And I would say that just very briefly, and certainly all too schematically, accelerationism is something like the view that contemporary history…

• 00:19:30

  In a position of deep skepticism. In a position of deep skepticism. About the capitalist process. It's trying its acceleration is only in so far. As it thinks that there is some other, I would say, magical source of acceleration that is going to be located some somewhere outside that basic motor of modernity. You…

• 00:49:04

  And I feel like there's a lot of reason to read your work as kind of saying that, but I'm not sure at all if you, agree with that or not. What do you think? Well, what I would say, I mean, I think it comes down again, just to these very, very basic cybernetic diagrams to do with positive feedback. And that, you know…

• 01:14:58

  challenges to it or to things that they think are somehow exhibiting less fragility or as a way of demonstrating the fact that they still have remained in the same place or for all kinds of reasons i think that um you know when you're in a situation where you're not able to do anything when these basic belief…

• 01:44:54

  Um, and perhaps that's why zero is unique if, if in fact your hypothesis is right, because it sort of makes possible this, this chaotically perverse, um, you know, symmetry around, around the number line or something like that. Where you started off, it seems to me it's worth isolating in itself because it is, it's…

• 02:07:19

  Because I think you have some particular ideas about that. Is that right? The whole of critique and the whole of capitalism can be translated into a discourse on time and on questions of time. So there's, you know, most famously, perhaps, you know, the sort of Heideggerian formulation of critique that seems…

• 02:29:30

  That. The current state of modernity. Is. Not. Like. Like this. Like this. Like this. Like this. Like this. Like this. a perfect technical realization of objective truth. And there's no, there's no routing around that within the blockchain. Now you can have multiple blockchains and, you know, this, you know, might…

• 02:56:39

  So you've got to draw a line somewhere. That's great. I should let you off here. Okay, that's great. I've really, this has been great fun, Justin. Best of luck. With all of that. I've really enjoyed it. I will even go as far to say best of luck with your communist blockchain, as long as you're not looking…