A compilation of the writings of Nick Land, co-founder, along with Sadie Plant, of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at the University of Warwick, UK where he was also a lecturer in Continental Philosophy until 1999.
His writings have been described as ‘rabid nihilism’, ‘mad black Deleuzianism’, ‘accelerationism’, and ‘cybergothic’.Land’s output has been a crucial underground influence both on recent Speculative Realist thought, and on artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers.
With an introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay
Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Kant, Capital and the Prohibition of Incest
Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger’s 1953 Trakl Interpretation
Delighted to Death
Art as Insurrection
Spirit and Teeth
After the Law
Making it with Death
Shamanic Nietzsche
Circuitries
Machinic Desire
Cybergothic
Cyberrevolution
Hypervirus
No Future
Cyberspace Anarchitecture as Jungle-War
Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace)
Meltdown
A ZiiGothic X-Coda (Cooking Lobsters with Jake and Dinos)
KatasoniX
Barker Speaks
Mechanomics
Cryptolith
Non-Standard Numeracies: Nomad Cultures
Occultures
Origins of the Cthulhu Club
Introduction to Qwernomics
Tic-Talk
Qabbala 101
Critique of Transcendental Miserablism