Nick Land - Response to Tech Secessionism (2014)

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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.

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• 00:00:00

  Greetings Ultimate Exit People. This is a new thing for me, as most things are for everybody these days. It's all part of learning to inhabit the net. You all have a t-shirt right? This is the retro Cold War flavoured version. A quick and basically irrelevant nostalgia term. We owe the exit voice distinction to this…

• 00:01:26

  Much is missed by doing so. The disloyalists have their own model of collectivity, biased to the commercial ideal of exchange and to the technological ideal of virtual connectivity. The opportunity for frictionless switching within a global network or network of networks epitomises disloyalty. As a positive…

• 00:02:46

  There is a discussion to be had about differential rates of divorce and parental abandonment within this spectrum. And we can be confident that the loyalist social conservative constituency will ensure such a discussion takes place. The pure loyalist idea of society is that of a big family. While for disloyalists…

• 00:03:41

  If this spectrum were reducible to loyalty and its denial, there is little reason to doubt that matters would have been already resolved definitively in the loyalist's favor. is due to the positive sense of the disloyal pole, which is competence. If there is a single striking pattern to modern history, it is that…

• 00:04:12

  Loyalism, after all, precludes selection. To choose among options is already disloyalism at work. The discrimination between success and failure only operates outside the sphere of loyalty. Pragmatic calculation selects between connections. Passionate attachment, by definition, does not. Run a performance-selected…

• 00:05:40

  Their opacity and ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! from without. Whatever was done well, even the carving of a culture of passionate attachment, was done coldly. Everything gets carved. Bring the machinery inside and you have Social Darwinism. Leave it outside…

• 00:07:38

  Ultimate exit begins Where the fight over the thermostat stops. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Don't argue or compromise. Split. Cold by nature and cold by destination. Antarctica, the seabed, the asteroid belt. I don't know whether anybody here is old enough to remember Siberia that needs…

• 00:09:02

  But they're going to be better at getting out than hot collectivists are at keeping them in. The heat is making us sick, but it's incompetent at what it does. So chill. Thank you.