Outer Edges 21st Century Spatial Metapolitics, Session VII

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone, welcome to the seventh session of Nick Land's Outer Edges Special Metapolitics Seminar. I'm going to pass the mic and the camera to Nick to begin the seminar. Okay, thanks Mo. So this week we're in outer space and I think that there's, I was just saying to Mo, I think there's so much to talk about…

• 00:23:15

  Because it's basically saying that anything that's locked in a gravity well is waste. The whole point is to get stuff out of gravity wells, is to take it out. It's the absolute opposite of the narrative required to sell this stuff. We want to bring things down here is the only way to make these things happen. But once…

• 00:47:32

  As you can see, Mo, this... We have a... What is called technically a loose spiral... A spiral. ...of discussion structure and process. Which I think definitely facilitates you asking the questions. Oh, am I buzzing somehow? Is that me buzzing, or am I somehow the only thing that isn't buzzing in Anders' question…

• 01:08:36

  This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. agenda of space colonization not only…

• 01:34:47

  whole a I risk world and he says it would be a shame if it was to turn out the humans were nothing but biological bootloaders for artificial intelligence so you know he's always he's very systematic in terms of his narrative position he's always he's always firmly ensconced in in a certain kind of like a sophisticated…

• 01:57:21

  Well, I think there was something similar alluded to there, like Musk will pay for return flights for you for free. Back to Earth. So you can, I don't know. Family or whatever. Yeah. But the idea that you would have a central organization who's like the sovereign, SpaceX, and they try and lure people with, firstly…

• 02:18:54

  Like I kind of feel like there's an accessible spectrum. But you're talking about what changes, I'm assuming that would make you unable to live unassisted on Earth after you. Yeah, I mean in terms of like really this like orbital transfer Lagrange point, like without having to completely fission the human species…

• 02:43:31

  would work for me for sure I have a little copy of moon if anyone I need can get it I can help them with okay I've only got a DVD so I can't I can't make that sort of supportive offer to anyone so let me know also like maybe Nick you want to like bring up the fact that we're organizing another seminar…