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"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?

>> No.9933158

some anon here writes just like Land in Meltdown, but claims he got the style from somewhere else
the book he cited was quite obscure, written by a japanese guy (either english translation or originally in english), possibly sci-fi, mentioned Daivd Bowie reading it (likely untrue) on its amazon page, and read a lot like Meltdown
does anyone know this book or can find one of this anon's posts?

>> No.9933163

>>9933109
I don't get it but I love it.

>> No.9933168
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9933168

>wake up monsieur freeman, wake up and smell the Truth

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9933171

>>9933168
is badiou good?

>> No.9933205

>>9933109
Is he retarded?

>> No.9933650

>>9933158
A-are u talking about Neuromancer?

>> No.9933767

>>9933109
you could probably remove 80% of the verbiage and still appear as a pretentious pseud

>> No.9933798

>>9933109
what the fuck, what the actual fuck is he saying? how can anyone understand this shit? can someone translate this into english for me?

>> No.9933828

>>9933798
I'd guess:
>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off.
Modernism and globalism have caused an accelerating rate of technological and commercial advancement.
>Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway.
Traditional social order (families/nations) is broken down by this globalization. This, in turn, makes way for further acceleration (via ease of international trade, the global financial system, etc.).
>As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip
Private power eventually has too much control (modern algorithms and data science), and in turn governments fumble to react against it to maintain their own power.

>> No.9933836

>>9933828
>modern algorithms and data science
Um... was that a thing already when he wrote that?

>> No.9933845

>>9933836
No, he wrote Meltdown in the 90s. He meant AI but my parentheses were just to give him more prediction credit.

>> No.9933854

>>9933845
I see. Thanks.

>> No.9934290

>>9933650
Kenji Siratori going by the other anon description.