/lit/ - Literature

just a schizo or a genius of the highest order?

is he worth reading? if so, where do i begin?

we are fucked.

Where to start with Nick Land?

I'm reading Fanged Noumena. It's pretty difficult to wade through such dense and abstract language, but I kind of get it. Excerpts from the first essay:

>The patronymic has irrecoverably divested all the women who fall under it of any recourse to an ethno- geographical identity; only the twin powers of father and husband suppress the nomadism of the anonymous female fluxes that patriarchy oppressively manipulates, violates, and psychiatrizes.

> The women of the earth are segmented only by their fathers and husbands. Their praxial fusion is indistinguishable from the struggle against the micro-powers that suppress them most immediately. That is why the proto-fascism of nationality laws and immigration controls tends to have a sexist character as well as a racist one. It is because women are the historical realization of the potentially euphoric synthetic or communicative function which patriarchy both exploits and inhibits that they are invested with a revolutionary destiny, and it is only through their struggle that politics will be able to escape from all fatherlands.

> But the only conceivable end of Kantianism is the end of modernity, and to reach this we must foster new Amazons in our midst.

I'm intrigued, but I also don't understand why he's considered based. Lesbian death squads are not something I would like to see fostered.

Why do people claim he is our era's Nietzsche?

is he really dead?

So I decided to look up what this dude has to say. It's whacky but there's something I don't get. if Nick Land loves capitalism so much (why, I still don't understand) then why did he move to China? Isn't China communist? And also he's kind of an ancap too right? Again, why china, it's anything but libertarian, nevermind anarchist.

Keep in mind I only just decided to stop ignoring Land about a week ago and don't really know much about China