Unknown Lands - Lecture 1

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• 00:00:00

  Okay, so we might begin, if that's cool. Okay, so welcome to the course, Unknown Lands, Introduction to Nick Land's Accelerationist Philosophy. So, my name's Vince. Here's my contact details if you need to email me if you want to ask any questions. The way these lectures are going to be structured is for each hour…

• 00:16:49

  And then Essex, where he was by all accounts a rather precocious and brilliant student. After completing his doctorate with a dissertation on Heidegger's reading of the Austrian poet Georges Trackel that we'll look at next week, Land accepted a lectureship at Warwick University in the late 80s. And, you know…

• 00:32:58

  But if I put this like this, if intuition has to conform to the constitution of our faculty of intuition, then I can very well representing this possibility to myself. But if I put this like this, if intuition has to conform to the constitution of our faculty of intuition, then I can very well representing this…

• 00:58:38

  like that's so yeah i mean that's just an example of the move to blogging is not just some random contingent act it's actually it's intellectually motivated by what he's trying to do i think yeah and same thing with the move from academia um yeah any yeah question just like this list of new ideas why do you think…

• 01:15:29

  Within a few years of Luther, the Jesuits, after Kant, Hegel, Catholicism and metaphysics both were born. After all, fear is the passionate enthusiasm for the same. So, yeah, just again, simply put, you know, far from, assassinating God, it would seem that all Kant really wanted to do was resurrect him under…

• 01:29:37

  So yeah, I think this is gonna be a lot more intuitive. So yeah, I think this is gonna be a lot more intuitive. than what the kind of formal technical stuff we've been going through so far. So yeah, hopefully this helps. Okay, yeah, so in the second book of the third critique called The Analytic of the Sublime, Kant…

• 01:46:56

  Okay, so what Land's admittedly creative reading of The Analytic of the Sublime ultimately proposes to do is re-evaluate the sensible animality that the imagination cannot synthesize as nothing other than nature, matter, understood as the thing in itself, the fanged numinal. So, you know, here, opposing Kant's…

• 02:01:55

  He does think Lacan is like this kind of Kantian idealist. So yeah, we'll look at that briefly in week four. So maybe we can get some, shed some light then. Yeah, any other questions? Alright. Alright. Alright, well thanks, thanks for coming.