Nick Land Explains the Numogram

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: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: standalone. Source: video original (.mp4).

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.

• 00:00:15

  Theory has to have a priority Capitalism and artificial intelligence are the same thing The dimension of the future has disappeared There is no final resolution to contradiction Millicent Militarian snake handling over abysses Never gets much wilder than this Welcome to the dangerous maybe I'm Michael Downs My work…

• 00:26:26

  isn't a christian he's like he's brought he's brought into christian uh affinity he's not jew either um he's not a neighbor part of abrahamic theology but the one his god is the one and the one takes on this um you know theological strongly theological flavor mystical theological flavor it's already that basically…

• 00:54:40

  Like, is it completely overwhelming or is it actually something that we can manage as part of a kind of sensible historical narrative about the past? Because, look, there definitely is levels to this. I mean, so one of the things that I do think... I think Lacan was really great on was emphasizing... So his term…

• 01:22:01

  There is no commanding idea. There's multiplicity. There's number. And so in that regard, is this where, back then, you saw this compatibility between seeing the numogram this way and delusing Guattari and rhizomatics? And is that where you saw this convergence between the two? Well, I'm not really exactly sure. I…

• 01:53:01

  this uh decimal maze well I mean look I have to say at that point you know this stuff is neither on my list okay nor is it something that I've really thought about honestly for probably decades you know it's like so I mean I can vaguely remember I can vaguely remember this what this pitch is I think at that point when…

• 02:42:33

  everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything…

• 03:04:46

  That's probably true. Yeah. I mean, I, I would very much like, and I think it's going to happen that there's going to be vastly more sort of productive, exact communication, between people in the religious tradition and in our, you know, the techno capitalist types of people, you know, I think they've tended…

• 03:27:15

  And so it's a real pleasure. And we'll, we look forward to talking to you again. Okay. Great. It's been a great pleasure for me to do it. So. Yeah. ! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. much wilder than this.