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Nick Land Philo-Fiction, Chasm, and the Abstract Manifesto The Dark Fantastic Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts
"Nick Land Philo-Fiction, Chasm, and the Abstract Manifesto The Dark Fantastic Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts" belongs to the early/middle Land archive where philosophy, theory-fiction, and inhuman modernity are still tightly entangled with the Warwick scene.
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Core idea
The page matters because it belongs to the phase of Land most tightly bound to Warwick, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, and the emergence of the CCRU's conceptual atmosphere. Later blog-era politics are not yet the main organizing frame.
These texts work through philosophical compression, polemical scene-writing, and theory-fictional intensity. Abstraction, annihilation, and anti-human thought are made to operate through form as much as doctrine.
That matters because early Land is central to several later archive problems - accelerationism, numogrammatics, cybernetics - but is never reducible to any one of them. The section keeps this phase historically and conceptually distinct.
How to read this text
Read for the problem that organizes the page - nihilism, abstraction, philosophy-fiction, or inhumanism - before trying to relate it to later public myths about Land.
Keep the page beside the reception and interview materials. The strongest reading path is primary text and later framing in sequence, not isolation.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 15
1 THOUGHT ON “NICK LAND: PHILO-FICTION, CHASM, AND THE ABSTRACT MANIFESTO” 10. After Finitude: An Easy on the Necessity of Contingency (Kindle Locations 130-132). Kindle Edition.
Definition · paragraph 1
That was clear.”1 So begins Nick Land’s new philo-fiction, Chasm. True to this statement this strange amalgam of – can we call it philosophy, hyperstition, abstraction to the nth degree, an non-movement around absolute Zero; or, like those fabulations of Borges, Calvino, Ballard, Lem, or any number of anti-metaphysical metaphysicians of recent repute call this a dip in the labyrinth of a-literature?
Definition · paragraph 1
Less, even, than usual, or than standard procedure recommended. That was clear.”1 So begins Nick Land’s new philo-fiction, Chasm.
Definition · paragraph 1
The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
History · paragraph 1
Nick Land: Philo-Fiction, Chasm, and the Abstract Manifesto Posted on January 19, 2016 Abstract literature writes in clues, with clue words, but without hope. …….– Nick Land, Abstract Manifesto “Nothing was to have taken place. Less, even, than usual, or than standard procedure recommended.
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Nick Land Before the Break Primary section
Early philosophy, Warwick-era writing, and the phase of Land most central to the CCRU's emergence.