Nick Land at Theory Underground

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• 00:00:00

  All right, everybody, welcome to Theory Underground. What you're about to listen to is an interview that we did with Nick Land last week. Very exciting that he was able to join us, considering how important he is for thinking the situation today. Okay, Michael Downs, aka Mikey of the Mikey Seminar here at TU, taught…

• 00:32:42

  Would you say this is like an a priori analytic statement? You know. Is it a posteriori synthetic or is it hyperstitional? Like, what status would you give this statement or this thesis? Well. Yes. I mean, I'm trying to think. I've thought a lot about it. Yeah, I've thought a lot about it. I'm like, I think on some…

• 01:07:32

  I'm open to that. I'm agnostic, but I am very skeptical, right? And I think there's nothing worse than a government that is ruling over people who aren't skeptical of it, right? I mean, nowadays you're supposed to be shamed for that, but I've got no shame. I agree with you. So, but with that, Mikey, what do you have…

• 01:32:47

  Which is to say, because the fixed capital is more efficient, it replaces 100 workers with 10 workers who are now pulling levers, doing the work of all of those other people. So it's efficient and labor-saving in that sense. But then, and they do weird stuff. Can I just say, sorry, I didn't want to interrupt, but just…

• 01:58:07

  And so in some sense, the transcendental conditions of experience are outside us. They're in the field of intensities. They're not just subjective forms. And so with all the stuff you guys with using the distinction between Eon and Kronos, I guess I've always tried to figure out exactly what the difference is between…

• 02:23:44

  in control like there's bigger much bigger things going on here than you understand um but I I I want to I know I know that Mike's got like this whole like little line of questioning on this and I I have to break in because I just I just really want to ask you this question I know that in the CCRU reader uh there's…

• 02:53:12

  I'm greatly enjoying 2020. guys. We're enjoying it too. And we hope you come back because I mean, Nick, I'm not going to lie. I have so many more questions I want to ask you, but no, it's been great. And I know he wants to do it. I mean, he's been interested in accelerationism. And I know that when he released…

• 03:15:55

  You do it. You did so good. Thanks, guys.