Nick Land Explains Time

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• 00:00:00

  The theory has to have a priority. Capitalism and Austrian intelligence are the same thing. The dimension of the future has disappeared. There is absolutely no representation anymore. There is no final resolution to contradiction. Milletons of predatory minds and snake handling over abysses never gets much wilder than…

• 00:19:25

  So three is at work. And then three plus three is at work in these primary numbers of the outside. Exactly. If you, if you count all the numbers that are not numbers outside all the numbers of the time circuit, you will not find any number that is a three or, or a multiple of a three or digitally reducible to three…

• 00:36:30

  Of course, you can go from the concept of a table to an actual table. It's not something that happens entirely effortlessly, but it's not particularly complicated. But how do you go from a pure concept like causality to a intuitive object, which we know since Hume, cannot possibly contain causality as part…

• 00:53:08

  Coherence. You know, you just can't. You can't have just. An experience of objects that make any sense. Or you would. Without the scheme, which is me. You would just simply have this. Bubbling foaming confusion of. The. The. The. The. The. The. The estanem estanem estanem estanem estanem estanem estanem estanem…

• 01:16:31

  in a pretty much analogous way to thinking that you're your empirical ego um and that's why you know when we okay we're coming at this point all out of the question of time we know like time is rolling forward and backwards you're not going to get any kind of agency of any kind of traditional sense you have to give…

• 01:35:51

  Which obviously Jung in this way, I mean, Freud is a much better Kantian than he wants to pretend to be. But Jung in this one particular respect is a better Kantian than Freud. I just, it's interesting to me because I don't see you draw on Jung very much. And so what you see in Jung, I'm interested in hearing because…

• 01:53:44

  Yeah. Yeah. There's the natural philosophical, there's the scientific. We haven't talked about scientific time. I mean, I don't know how competent any of us are at this shit. I'm not at all. Yeah, it's not uninteresting. It's not interesting. I don't know what would happen if we tried to talk about it. It would…

• 02:11:30

  I definitely, you know, next time I would like to get more into some of the details of Nietzsche and Bergson and Luz and Guattari on time, even though Kant is primary here. And I'd like to connect it, you know, to how time was, you know, operating in the CCRU writings. And then especially, you know, this relationship…