Outer Edges Q+A

Provenance

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.

Listen

Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: Outer Edges. Source: video original (.mp4).

Timestamped map

These jump targets come from timestamps preserved in the source transcript, so they work as navigational anchors rather than editorially invented section labels. Timings are approximate — they mark where a passage begins, not exact word timing.

• 00:00:00

  Alright, so welcome to... This is the open session here of Outer Edges with Nick Land. We're recording this for some of the students who might have... who might miss this and for the people who are just maybe on the... on the outer edges of joining the course and have any kind of questions. The official course will…

• 00:20:10

  And so it's certainly possible. And there's obviously people want to know what the second module would be. But my experience so far with these seminars is that they're very dynamic in terms of being student-driven to a large extent. I'm often very surprised and interested by where they end up. And so it's nice to have…

• 00:37:58

  Sorry, sorry. Can I just take you back one second? It. It. You mean, are we talking Scott Alexander now or Ian Banks? Scott Alexander and, I guess, Ian Banks both kind of, you know, assume that there's these hard sort of, like, material concerns that once those are sort of resolved, you know, then people can shuffle…

• 00:57:07

  I think there will always be people who just want to cause trouble. There will always be the worst possible case, you know, or you should always assume that. And that the sort of international relations theory position, I deeply respect, which is that you always judge potential adversaries, by their capabilities…

• 01:14:46

  Like say we have independent microstates in some kind of proximity to each other. Say you have lots of resources, I have not so many resources, whatever. I sort of see this as a bit of a red herring because I think that the kind of resources that matter are not the kind that are geographically mal-distributed. Um. How…

• 01:32:37

  Negative norms. I mean, I don't see any positive norms at all. I mean, maybe I'm... Maybe I'm being blind to that. But if there are any positive norms, I want to hunt them down and kill them. I mean, they're not helpful. So, you know, insofar as the systematic refusal of any substantial normativity is a problem, then…

• 01:50:22

  And yet there's nothing about it that's not there. You know, it's completely open if people want that stuff. So it seems to me we can already see that that utterly open infosphere is utterly, totally compatible with ideological tribalization, bubbling, segregation, separation, however you want to put it. And if that…

• 02:11:25

  See you. Okay. Have a good week. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I obviously hope to see you again soon, but regardless of that, thanks for this. And thanks, Tony, for organizing it. You're welcome. See you. Okay. Thank you. Good night.