NCCP 700-216 - The Concept of Acceleration, Session VIII

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the final session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Okay, thanks Theo, and thanks to everyone who's here. I'm sure everyone shares my confidence that we're going to neatly wrap up all the things we've been talking about in this session. I've…

• 00:22:55

  It's the final definitive zeroing out of the space of... of the space of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... of the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... But it really…

• 00:43:27

  And it's just not. It's just not relevant. It's just a different kind of perspective. Free will isn't a meaningful kind of concept in that concept of time. But it is obviously in asymmetrical time because it seems like a spontaneous way of apprehending what is coming at us as a kind of space of nothingness, like…

• 01:04:58

  There's a common, like, abstract structure in terms of the relationship of causality, chronology and description, I guess, or the possibility of description that seems to be going on. In different ways. And productive artificial ways in some sense, artificial. In both cases, sort of a triangular relationship…

• 01:33:12

  factor here I mean maybe that's the question a different way like how would you compare the way you're thinking about transcendental time with say Bergson or to lose so so both of those thinkers believe in real duration and Bergson thinks of it in terms of quality sort of and to lose thinks of it in terms of intensity…

• 02:06:13

  possible way you can have multiple transcendentals so I'm cool I'm cool with that now after revising my Kant but but like is there is there some kind of way that this if we have the spiral as the diagram of modern time um and I suppose one Western times because it's the time of capitalism which is the agent that's…

• 02:32:54

  Maybe even lower fundamental. I mean, it's. It's. It's difficult because the game's a bit tilted by the fact that transcendental means kind of more fundamental. You know, it's like it's intrinsically designed to never take second place to any other mode of description. But in terms of practicality, I guess things…

• 03:02:47

  So I definitely hugely enjoyed this chance to engage with all you guys. And I don't see it ending anytime soon. OK, maybe I should, what do you think? Maybe this is it? This is it. This is the wall. This is it. We've hit the wall, guys. Do you agree? It's never over and yet it's over. Yeah, OK. We can all dissolve…