Nick Land - Response to Tech Secessionism (2014) (1)

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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…

• 00:02:07

  Hot collectivities are based on passionate attachment. Cold collectivities are based on pragmatic calculations. Hot collectivists have motherlands and fatherlands. Cold collectivists shop around. Loyalty in this ideological sense is essentially a macro social phenomenon. Disloyalists are probably no less loyal…

• 00:03:22

  Humans are excitable social animals. If this spectrum were reducible to loyalty and its denial, there is little reason for reason not that matters would have been resolved definitively in the loyalist s favour. That the spectrum exists as an ideological generator and not merely a measure of departure from virtue…

• 00:04:54

  every time a social phenomenon proves tractable to models based on games, systems of exchange, or unintended spontaneous order. Every theory of modernisation that appeals to some sort of social phenomenon is a ! There are other things that work naturally, but their functional principles are incalculable. Loyalists…

• 00:07:16

  Growth, change, connectivity, artificial intelligence, whatever. But we're not made for this temperature, we need more warmth. And we're going to insist our leaders deliver some for us. There's a whole thermopolitics discussion about squabbles over the temperature control, which soon gets huge. But that's…

• 00:07:47

  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 to come back. Political heat dissipation is what the 21st century is about. Archipelago is actually the warmest version…

• 00:09:08

  The heat is making us sick, but it's incompetent at what it does. So chill. Thank you.