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Nick Land (1994)
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Brief 1994 archival Nick Land clip on the shift from top-down to flat, distributed network structures.
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.
- Series
- standalone
- Duration
- 00:00:39 (~1 min)
- Words
- 92
- Corpus cluster
- video
- Source/billing metadata (unverified)
- Nick Land
- Topics
- Nick Land · cybernetics · flat networks · distributed systems
- Source SHA-256 (txt)
- f82ca2ebe5f8d0bcbdfa22d22b07d82c163c62989ea8c55177ae0082b7d7c5db
- Source SHA-256 (json)
- ee8ab839d562a7dc01fc7298c1bba279532a690a2d1c5f8b650976887f9cf3ba
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There is a very similar pattern that you find in the structure of societies, in the structure of companies and in the structure of computers and all three are moving in the same direction. That is away from a top-down structure of a central command system giving the system instructions for how to behave towards…