/lit/ - Literature

>>13793086
They are Capital's divine instrument. Praise Gnon!

>Shanghai, China
>The growing band of heroes picks its way through a crowded night market
>Pynchon:"Hey Sadler, are you sure we should be lookin' for this guy? Word on the street is that he went, you know, a little loco back in the 90s"
>*Sadler swerves past a steet vendor cooking Chow Mein in an immense wok*
>"He's a little.... eccentric, but the guy's a whiz with cybernetics. We don't make it into Neo-Nietzche's base or past his security without him"
*The gang turn down a dark alley, and stop at a nondescript door, Tao Lin takes out a crumpled note from his pocket*
Tao: "55 Deng Xiaoping Street... this must be the place..."
*The group exchange uneasy glances, then enter the apartment building. They wordlessly ascend the narrow stairs. A low electric hum becomes audible as they reach the top*
>*Pynchon forces open the door to one of the flats*
>*The inside of the apartment is a mess of wires, papers, notes and empty pot noodle cups. The room is completely dark, save for a series of monitors giving off a pale blue light*
>*As the group walks towards the computer, they see that the screens display twitter, human biodiversity blogs, and Unqualified Reservations. A pallid man, shrouded in darkness, works the mouse and keyboard with spidery fingers. As he hears our heroes approach, he slowly turns around"
>"What are you doing in my Xeno-apartment?"
>Sadler "I think you know why we're here. He's back"
>*The figure hisses and turns away*
>"I care not for the sentimental hysterics of your human security system. Go, and die with your Kantian delusions"
>*Sadler slides a dossier over to the figure. The first page displays the logo of the University of Warwick
>Sadler: "Well, look who bankrolling and supporting him. Time to settle that old score, isn't it Nick?"
>*Nick Land stares wordlessly at the file. Then, with seemingly great effort, he closes all of the 98 tabs open on google chrome. He looks directly at the group, his eyes now glowing spheres of pure nanospasm*
>Nick: "I'm in"

>>10854707
based

>muh Anglos

>>10461172
>Sits down next to you at fashionable Shanghai bar
>Orders some instant noodles
>fumbles with phone, posts several times on twitter
>noodles arrive, uses Capitalism and Schizophrenia as a coaster
>looks at you
>"heh..... the story goes like this, kiddo"
What do you do?

>>10375176
Land doesn't seem awkward to me desu, at least judging by his interviews

>>10063082

It's fairly obvious as to why.
If you aren't (well enough) conditioned to respond emotionally to the possibility of objective findings of a racist worldview, you might as well explore it. That's what he does. And he realizes most races are incapable of running this thing. Whites were good at launching it, but Asians in the end, and their both figurative and literal Mandarin habitus, will carry the thing to its completion.
Whites, Land realizes as a Han-supremacist, are too easily possessed by.. let's call them Stirnerist spooks. Too prone to fanatacism. Middle Easterners aren't just prone, but are incapable of organizing a society around anything else but a slave morality. As such, the least likely to allow capital to flourish fully.
Asians on the other hand, when engaged in an (originally) Anglosaxon system of production, become ferociously effective agents with little ideologically editting in the whole process.

Reality is so beautifully Lovecraftian.

"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip."

So basically, Nick Land is like Dr. Breen in Half Life2, urging us to collaborate with the Combine?

>>9921976
>this is your brain on capitalism/reddit
feels so good. so good. thinking about pulp indeed pulped my own brain. it is what it is now. extra pulpy. yum yum

but it had to happen. so that at least i would know the difference between retardedness and sanity. that difference: most of what i say is retardedness. which is why i say it, because otherwise, i would carry it around with me forever and give myself all kinds of silly ideas. better to vent that shit. otherwise you get crazy ideas

>>9921985
>worthless uninspired garbage
oh stop. SMAC is awesome. ff6 is awesome. ff7 is awesome. ff4 is awesome. tactics was awesome. starcraft is awesome also, although in different ways. xcom is awesome. lots of things are awesome. games are awesome. everything is fucking awesome. it's a universe of awesomeness in that sense. and this from a guy who does not even play that many games. i read, or used to read, a lot of philosophy. now i prefer to think about game art and meme accordingly. i says, there's gold in them hills. & this is hardly rocket surgery.

beyond earth was not awesome, true. it could have been but it was not. i still kind of like it but of course it was far far below its predecessor.

>admires tech for its ability to create the fash AI
>tech ends up becoming just another red guard infested sector

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