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Surging Into the Inhuman - Ktismatics
"Surging Into the Inhuman - Ktismatics" 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 13
< https://ktismatics.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/surging-into-the- inhuman/?like_comment=11858&_wpnonce=9e34dbfb36> inhuman/#comment-11858> John Doyle is right that bataillean ecstactic ruination is just a ride for the connesoir of such things. For one, you need something to expend in the first place, despite the myth of solar abundance, as Bataille himself knew (there is little concern for the paradoxes that haunted Bataille in Land’s book, nor in a great deal of the Bataille industry).
History · paragraph 13
The fact that you need hard assets – the gold standard of pleasure – in order to be soveriegn, rather than a mere attitude of reality defiance, is the true ‘inhuman’. I have been attacking the ecstacy ruin equation since 2001, with ‘The Time of the Lords: An Attack on Bataille’s Slave Aesthetic of Transience’, and ‘The Myth of Transience'(2005). Not a attack on Land alone, although he largely ‘inspired me’: he was my lecturer at Warwick when I was there in 90-91.
History · paragraph 6
Odd that he got into number theory, since he expressly states in The Thirst that he’s not much at maths. No doubt a charismatic figures with an attraction to apocalyptic nihilism can keep a place hopping. I’m aware of Nick Land as a sort of legendary figure from the blogosphere’s deep past (i.e., early 200s), before I started reading and writing and commenting on them.
History · paragraph 16
noir-realism < http://darkecologies.com> 13 February 2014 at 1:29 pm < https://ktismatics.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/surging-into-the- inhuman/#comment-21338> What’s weird in your comments and most of the comments above is that I wonder how deeply they actually read Land’s book? Land’s work although in the tradition of Nietzsche and Bataille was also a veritable critique of the whole Kantian internalization of philosophy into its fictional constructivism.
History · paragraph 16
noir-realism < http://darkecologies.com> 13 February 2014 at 1:29 pm < https://ktismatics.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/surging-into-the- inhuman/#comment-21338> What’s weird in your comments and most of the comments above is that I wonder how deeply they actually read Land’s book?
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Early philosophy, Warwick-era writing, and the phase of Land most central to the CCRU's emergence.