NICK LAND ON NIETZSCHES ÜBERMENSCH ETERNAL RECURRENCE Feat NICK LAND (1)

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• 00:00:00

  The really scandalous thing about fascism is that it is basically the sole repository of the aesthetic in modern politics. So liberalism just completely seems in principle to avoid this thing. And communism has these clumsy sub-fascist aesthetics. And fascism, the more fascist it is, the more it actually…

• 00:11:47

  finitude that's all transcendental dialectic and antinomy for can it's not it's not as an argument it certainly needs some justification but if you just go with what he's saying there even then you actually don't get mechanical recurrence so the mechanical recurrence is something that you just have to you assume…

• 00:24:17

  And Boltzmann too, I don't know really what his religious ideas were generally, but they were definitely like, in this model, it's like a radical version of Laplace's, I have no need of that hypothesis. Like it's just assumes this atheistic model. So he's not saying, oh, good. It's like this anomalous singularity…

• 00:43:30

  aesthetics i mean it's like you know the in in attempting to sort of obviously that kind of all-around global post-war denunciation of fascism the the most ridiculous part of that was the attempt to pretend that you know that you're not a fascist you're not a fascist you're not a fascist you're not a fascist you're…

• 00:51:58

  Like, so given that they were all going to say, you know, there's the evolution of the progressive and everything that exists is equally involved, and there's maybe no direction to evolution, which is like, kind of, in some ways hard to defend. But. There's interesting arguments for it. But at the same time, it's…

• 01:04:51

  Yeah, I certainly see that. And, you know, obviously I have my own reservations. Perhaps. I'm a Nietzschean cell, as they're saying, where I have to ride with Nietzsche contra the Anglo way of going. But I totally see where you're coming from. And, you know, it makes a lot of sense. And I have to do some thinking. I…

• 01:14:54

  supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed imposed, maybe in a very, they're all spooks as Sterner would say, right? These spooks, you know, maybe the paper clips of spook, so to speak, in the Sterner sort of way. But in all seriousness, if I were to succinctly summarize, you know, my sort of response…

• 01:25:39

  by drone to your doorstep so thank you legionaries for watching uh thanks for joining the the uh the famous nick land who who is who has become a honorary i will say nick land is a honorary legate in the legion of new rome uh so we'll always have that but uh thank you guys so much for watching uh supporting…