Outer Edges (Session 7)

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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…

• 00:22:01

  It's potentially everywhere. That's what it is to be outside of a gravity well. And so once resources are in outer space, they're out of the gravity well, they're in deep space, they're open for relatively economically plausible deployment. But in a gravity well, they are locked. You know, that's what a gravity well…

• 00:45:20

  You know, because of the fact that we have this... we have this... this rupture in space. This is what is... this is what we're faced with. If any of this stuff is happening, if we're on a trajectory that reintroduces us to space, we're talking about a rupture in the nature of space of huge implications. And…

• 01:05:35

  But I think that that also can be flipped to say that you're... it's the way... the only way to release the absolute outside is to do that. You know, it's like... it's to say... because in the Kantian structure you're saying, the conception we have of the outside is a fake outside until we do Copernican revolution. We…

• 01:28:52

  But obviously it's interesting to me at least that it has so much back story behind it. You know, I mean any, everyone who takes a slightest interest in what he's doing knows that there's this huge cosmological narrative behind it. You know, to do with the Fermi Paradox and the risk and the X risk and all of this kind…

• 01:58:10

  Yes, if people could think that. That was coherent. Look, my sort of question and difficulties with this is just like, this is obviously the amount of terrestrial investment that is required to make this happen is utterly massive. And I don't think there's any realistic way that we're thinking, well maybe, to correct…

• 02:23:04

  I think it's definitely interesting. It's asymmetric also in the temporal side. In the sense that there's a smooth increase in temporal and spatial scale on the side of the dust cloud. But with the event horizon, you're like, you're scissioning off from the temporal strata which anything else has access…

• 02:44:38

  Okay. So I'm going to end the broadcast. Thank you Nick it was a fascinating seminar. Yeah thanks everybody it was great. Thanks Nick. Cheers.