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11268973 No.11268973 [Reply] [Original]

What do I have to read before I read this?

>> No.11268986

>>11268973
nothing. go ahead.

you would benefit from a high school education and maybe knowing what rousseau and especially hobbes said. if not don't worry about it.

>> No.11268987

just read it brah

>> No.11268989

Even though there's tons of philosophy you would benefit most just from having read Neuromancer and Heart of Darkness

>> No.11268991

>>11268973
amphetamines

>> No.11269026

>>11268973

You could even take drugs and it will still make sense (much of it was written under the effects of drugs even). Land (apparently in purpose?) does not care too much in defining terms and even appropriates physics without explicitly telling you what the fuck he means, not unlike Lacan annoyingly used to do with mathematics (and is the main reason people like Sokal hates his guts).

With this said, you can still read it standalone and not come out of it empty handed, provided you pay attention to the many lucid passages, which are also quite entertaining. Land has a way of writing that is really obscure but also makes everything have sense in your head, which is really a high point of his work overall, regardless of what anyone thinks about the ideas themselves. If you go in having read Kant, Hegel, Hume, Baudrillard and Deleuze at least, you will definitely understand more references and key terms, but it is not necessarily a requirement that Land imposes for you to get the gist of it. Everything is laid out clearly, if only in a very edgy, almost sci-fi manner of speaking, so that you can think about it even without referencing to older philosophies.

It also helps to put it in context that Land was not the one who actually put Fanged Noumena together, it was mainly Ray Brassier who has his own agenda and interests regarding Land's philosophy. Brassier himself outlines how problematic it might potentially be to go down that road, and you should keep in mind FN is biased towards that sentiment: https://moskvax.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/accelerationism-ray-brassier/

>> No.11269084

>>11268973

Read Baudrillard first and then start skimming this and try not to laugh your ass off at how bad an imitation it is