Nick Land Explains the Numogram (1)

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• 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…

• 00:33:00

  Arrives most importantly in Northern Italy. In at some period, blurrily. It's not a clear moment. It's a field of intensities. In Northern Italy. northern Italy around about the early Renaissance. Or at least it's, you know, that what the Renaissance, I want to say, my strong claim here is that the Renaissance…

• 00:58:44

  And they've added relatively recently, I mean, I'm in a slow timeline, so by relatively recently, I mean several months ago, in fact, two different QWERTY models, QWERTY ciphers. So there is now a kind of, you know, there's a formal resource that can be used to sort of explore your insight there, you know, where…

• 01:24:57

  I think I'm using it entirely naively and innocently and if I hadn't read any Deleuze and Guattari it would be the same. All I mean by it is what happened in that demonstration of the esoteric tetra tetra tetra. It's to say multiplicity is what you've got when a project of unification is shown to be not only to fail…

• 01:49:55

  And because of burrows, and especially since he linked his, his depictions of the little lemurs as temporal anomalies, right? I think you guys latched onto that as, all right, this, this is a interesting way to represent the lofty powers. And so, yeah, somebody is like, do they believe in literal outside lemur? It's…

• 02:12:23

  It's certainly not part of the fundamental machinery of the I Ching. We've seen the fundamental machinery of the I Ching we know is fully constant with the time circuit. Um, but there is, there is the outside. Um, numera. Well, it's kind of the numera, but you know, Kant is in the history of philosophy and it's…

• 02:43:06

  That's the complicated thing. They have some, as we were saying earlier, they have the Atlantean cross and they have whatever they, however close they can get to this in their system. But I think that the Atlantean tradition is fed, stimulated from the side by, you know, by, by the Lemurian. I can't even…

• 03:28:33

  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Militant proletarian snake handling over abysses never gets much wilder than this.