Nick Land - Q&A with Yoel Regev and Diana Khamis, 2015

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• 00:00:00

  You know, in different directions of what we are doing, catastrophism, or what we call horrorism, there is accelerationism, there is some general line of thinking, think, you know, with something which is coming to annihilate the human, thinking it as catastrophical, as, you know, some kind of overcoming presence…

• 00:14:30

  He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive analysis of everything. He has a positive…

• 00:26:54

  It's probabilistic and uncertain, and you need to use all the tools of rigorous statistical inference upon this information. But it's still information. Because if you do X, then all other things being equal, you have some reason to make a statistical inference that your fellow prisoner will do the same thing…

• 00:42:51

  There are this atmosphere, I can call it decadence, yes, and I think it's present in this way of thought in your text. Yes, and I understand, I understand the kind of, you know, which simple optimistic way of thought can be, positive thinking and all this stuff. I understand completely the kind of annoyance…

• 00:57:48

  This is a thoroughly planned campaign with very specific goals and tasks and strategic tactical planning. Okay, we have managed to interpret it, so back to your oil. Okay, we have managed to interpret it, so back to your oil. Okay, we have managed to interpret it, so back to your oil. oil yes but here is the real…

• 01:15:48

  Is that right? Okay. By the way, maybe... Ah, yes, I forgot. Yes, so we can continue. Thank you. Do you want to say something else? An answer to that question? Yeah, I wonder whether... I wonder whether... what the state of the question is now. Like, because, as I say, I'm intrigued by this notion... I guess…

• 01:29:58

  Where Marx is willing to go a long way in directions that I think are extremely accurate, but with the proviso that he says, yes this is the line of capital teleology, but there is an encompassing narrative, which is a narrative about ratification and alienation. And in principle, this whole technological line…

• 01:43:36

  Well, I'd like to thank everybody very much. Thank you. Thank you very much for being such a congenial audience. I've enjoyed myself. Thank you very much for being such a congenial audience. I've enjoyed myself. Please, everybody, do not catch the flu. You will get sick. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you, guys…