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Land - Mechanomics (Pli v.7) (1998)
A Land essay that routes numeracy, state capture, and mechanized abstraction into the geotraumatic line through hostility to logocentric ordering.
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Core idea
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Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
55 Mechanomics Nick Land Start in the State (it insists): organicist technospecialism, pedagogic authoritarianism, and territorial sectorization that culminates in mass innumeracy. Irrespective of its configuration as educational crisis, the suppression of popular numbering practices is both result and presupposition of institutionalized mathematics.
Definition · paragraph 1
55 Mechanomics Nick Land Start in the State (it insists): organicist technospecialism, pedagogic authoritarianism, and territorial sectorization that culminates in mass innumeracy.
Definition · paragraph 10
NICK LAND 64 global perspective of the State expressed by the descending values of standard place-value allocation. Calendric ordinality finds itself increasingly cardinalized by chronometry under capitalist conditions. The next Calendar is Millennium Time-Bomb, which dates (AD1900 = 00, but so does AD2000).
Definition · paragraph 4
NICK LAND 58 (intrinsic arithmetical value) in alphabetic numeracy does not imply the termination - or even a weakening - of its numeracy. That such a conclusion is drawn owes much to the overt secular triumph of cardinality over ordinality within Occidental civilization: the effective outcome of programmatic metricization, associated with the relative ascent of money and descent of the calendar as cultural factors.
Definition · paragraph 4
NICK LAND 58 (intrinsic arithmetical value) in alphabetic numeracy does not imply the termination - or even a weakening - of its numeracy.
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Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.