Accelerationism, The Dark Enlightenment & The Strange Life of Nick Land
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'Satanist Aleister Crowley'
I mean, no not really a satanist, the demons crowley fixated on had their basis in ancient egypt more so than anything christian, a minor correction
I mean if I were a Satanist I'd pick him to rep me over LaVey, but it would admittedly be a bit dishonest.
In the vulgar sense Crowley was a Satanist, He admitted as such multiple times and his correspondence with Symonds reasserts such feat. Symonds also referenced how Crowley honoured a whole council of hebrew/christian demons.
My view is that Crowley was a Satanist, and yet more than a Satanist. Crowley could be called a Sinister Pyrrhoist.
The rituals to Apep reassert this position, the same regarding the Set-Hoori conflation.
Achad in his turn to Christianity also reasserts this as fact.
Motta does the same, and regardless the grades and successory disputes his research and commentary is cirurgically on point, and this fact alone is the motivator of most thelemite hate against him today, he talked too much and he was as public as Crowley was.
Crowley references to Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit, specially on the Farewell (a passkey) in the OTO IX° are not only self referential (him as beast ie. vesper ie. the star in the west) but also the holy ghost as satan. This interchangeability is openly introduced in The Wake World in the proper arcana.
The same applies to the communications in which Sorat is vehicle.
Crowley embracing of "The World" in the most offensive biblical sense is also testimony enough.
To Crowley the Father Christ references is not the Demiurge. In fact Crowley equates the Demiurge with Satan and with a whole different God Father from the Christians. Authentic Sinister Gnosticism.
@@LNVACVAC And that's fair. I think I tend towards a perspective that acknowledges the Gnostic conceits a bit more readily, but I will concede that my biases are my own.
@@dustind4694 UA-cam is deleting my answers.
Crowley basically promoted Pneumatikoi and Phibionite practices as Gnostic Acceleration, but in place of bringing the second coming and stealing light from the Arkons, to solidify his kingdom as beast and coming/awakening of other instrumental satanic avatars.
He's not either/or
"Capitalism crushes the human spirit -BUT FIRST A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR "
I love free markets but hate authorianism. Why can't just one us state remain free?
@@beareble-lion4446 Your position makes no sense. If markets are unregulated, then giant megacorps are naturally gonna arise and a huge amount of power over everyone else.
@@robinvik1 That's already a thing
@@cthonicobservations1743 Exactly.
@@robinvik1 Unless the sole function of the government is to enforce individual liberties.
“We're Americans. We don't quit just because we're wrong. We just keep doing the wrong thing until it turns out right.” -Ed Wuncler
Can't wait for that national debt to fucking implode
Let's Not You wouldn't be alive by then
@@LordFakmorIII By implode I mean the bad kind
@@sibanbgd100 lmao
What an obsession with America. So bad, but also so eager to open its borders to others. Somehow America is the worst and the best for progressives.
You've gotta watch this video at 2x for the full experience
"Every time Sisyphus says ___ the video doubles in speed."
I advise watching every video In two times speed cuts out the natural thinking pauses in speech
I think it's more of a joke bcs in the video sisyphus talks about acceleration and speeding up things
Start in .25 and slowly move up to 4x
April fool's video opportunity
When your strats to win Civ by turn 150 turn into your personal philosophy
Sums it up.
Speederun
this but unironically
you ever notice in Civ V how democracy basically never wins, except maybe in very rare, improbably lucky circumstances? It's always fascism or communism that take over the world. and usually through brutal total war, often nuclear war. especially on higher difficulty levels.
you notice how fragile democracy seems to be in our actual world?
sometimes, you start to wonder if maybe the AI is right...
@@ivandiaz5791 hey. Hey just wanted to explain to you the point of the joke. Civ is a game where humanity is a competitive game of nations. Its literally gamifying human history.
The joke is that wouldn’t it be crazy if people thought that being a human and interacting with other humans on a universal scale was made into some arbitrary game?
@@BenvolioZF thing is.. that kind of is a lot of people’s world views.. just an arbitrary game of competing ideologies
"Night City was like a deranged
experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on
the fast-forward button." - William Gibson, Neuromancer
Did you consciously change "Chiba City" to "Night City?" Clever reference either way.
@@dethkon Night City is the name of a small area in Chiba (in neuromancer.) That commenter didn’t change anything.
Night City from the recent cyberpunk game is totally unrelated
@@k.s.9400 Thanks for the correction. Is Night City that place where Molly sort of follows/stalks Case through the club/arena and flatline's an assassin? Or is it the part of Chiba where like, Case's coffin at "Cheap Hotel" is? Kinda close to where his junkie, prostitute ex-girlfriend meets him to try and scam some money off him in the beginning? I haven't read Neuromancer in some time...
@@dethkon "Behind the port lay the city, factory domes dominated by the vast cubes of corporate arcologies. Port and city were divided by a narrow borderland of older streets, an area with no official name. Night City, with Ninsei its heart. By day, the bars down Ninsei were shuttered and featureless, the neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting, under the poisoned silver sky"
@@dethkon The vanilla Cyberpunk genre always have a "night city" as a setting: always raining, neon lights, being a seedy unforgiving hellhole where dying is a preferable alternative to living...
reddit philosopher found accelerationism, pack it up boys
lol
Its so over
my thoughts exactly
worse, reddit audience found it
More than anything, thanks to his prolific public presence, Nick presents both a highly illustrative model for and cautionary tale about the dangers of long term amphetamine abuse
I agree. A talented person addicted to speed is not significantly more impressive in his output than a guy with a swastika tattooed on his forehead living in an unregistered car parked in the desert.
Well, Lands worldview was ahead of its time and will be recognized as the better alternative to the democratic sham most people in the west still believe in today, so I guess the amphetamines didn't hurt.
That is such bullshit. I bet you would gladly take cancer medication even if it was invented by a guy on speed@@claesvanoldenphatt9972
There is literally no proof abt it lol
this is what it sounds like when philosophy professors get hooked on amphetamines...
Because, it is
It’s pretty much one of the best substances a philosopher can use.
@@johnnyjacuzzi7498 in a post-individual view in which philosophy as a whole becomes comparable to a brain and each philosopher becomes a train of thought, then for each philosopher to take amphetamine and accelerate their own thinking faster than their natural (as in, unpredictable and affected by all the variables of life) experience and learning can account for... yes. the alternative to this is that each philosopher has a fair balanced view of life and thinks as he pleases....
yeah, amphetamines sound like a good idea. do got the crash tho...
6:35
The audience member referred to here is my late friend, the alcoholic blues guitarist and unsolicited performance artist, Charlie “Bad Boy” Mitton.
The truth is that he didn’t “storm out,” but was forcibly removed by campus security for being drunkenly disruptive, and it was while he was being slung out that he announced: “I’m a socialist, goddamn it!” - as if the security guys were going to say “Oh sorry sir, we didn’t realise. Please carry on.”
Great story and well-written, I can visualise it. Thank you for sharing.
10:48 “If a drunken driver is at the wheel, it is not just the minister's job to comfort the relations of those he has killed, but if possible to seize the steering-wheel.” - Bonhoeffer
Nice to see someone quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer, didn't expect it.
I hate this assumption of inevitability. That there's some magical arrow of time that will only take us in one direction, that we can't go backwards or stagnate, it denies the countless different directions in which we could take society.
We live in a world of endless possibilities and these nihilistic arseholes are busy turning their suicidal depression into a philosophy.
I have to agree with you: inevitability doesn't make much sense when you consider the power that individuals can have over society and therefore the course of history. Its hard to predict complex systems, and few systems are more complex than society.
If time is infinite, then eventually humans will be left to nothing, be nothing. Our lives will mean nothing, so why does it matter? I’m not suicidal but I don’t want to die. But I do look at the recent report on climate change at the UN and think that their is not reason to be alive. I don’t think that it’s impossible to have humans live forever but right now, it seems kinda hard to picture us surviving past this century. That’s where the nihilism comes from. It’s not inevitable but it seems damn close.
@@spicy1375 If you think about the infinity of time and of the bearing of our actions in that spectrum, then yes, our actions have little consequences in that regard. However, we are all only one individual. What matters to us, the things we think fondly of, the things we hate, all of this matters from a subjective point of view.
Let's say you were working in a company that helps the elderly. What do you accomplish ? Are you giving motivation for the younger generations to not worry about their future ? Are you trying to please people, and making them remember you as a good person ? These exemples are variable, you can't rely on them for meaning. Taking care of the elderly won't erase dread, trying to please people won't necessarily work at all.
So what do you accomplish except helping people who are going to die anyway ? Here's the answer : if you hadn't helped them, they wouldn't have gotten help. If you weren't with them, they would be lonely. You might think that if you weren't there, someone else would be, but no, for nothing is granted. You accomplish what you accomplish, the help you give, is help you gave and that wouldn't have been otherwise. What happens after, the meaning behind the action, how people see it... Over time, it's meaningless. But the action itself has been done, and wouldn't have been otherwise. So instead of pursuing, and failing, at finding external meanings, excuses behind your actions, to find a "reason to live", let your actions become the meaning. Not meaningful in the future. Not to the universe. Not to humanity. But to you.
unrelated but dope PFP my guy
@@spicy1375 Are things valuable only if they last forever? Why not embrace the good things in life now, even if they fall prey to entropy one day?
History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme. I now understand why "May you live in interesting times" is meant as a curse.
it repeats
human beings make the SAME MISTAKES as our ancestors.......sometimes......but like hell do we "only progress" from them.
This has to be the shittiest poem in the galaxy's history, if an intelligent extraterrestrial picked up a book of human history they'd think this is some kind of a prank.
Almost like a sick joke.
Wow! I was just thinking about you.
Very glad to see this, thanks for making my day. Im going to make the most of it!!!
OMG I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT NICK LAND
Not really, I just wanted to be part of the fun
Owo?
Hyperstitioned the video into reality
I always thought of accelerationism as a sort of societal nihilism. You don't have any hope for the near future and you are sure that things are going in the wrong direction while you can change anything, so the only solution is to give up and just see what will change. It is a scary thought
it's a dooms day cult pretty much a religion that hopes that all will be better after burning everything down...
Very well put!
In most contexts I've heard it used it refers to a hyperextension and perhaps misunderstanding of a specific piece of Marxists theory. Basically stating that capitalism will inevitably head towards its own demise and so accelerating capitalism results in a further heightening and enhancement of the contradictions within capitalism. In a super oversimplified way of explaining thinking that the insane amount of inequality that would result would give the proletariat no other recourse than to violently overthrow their oppressors. Or in other words Lenin's statement that in the end the capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them. But taken to an extreme. Perhaps too literally. Accelerationism is the idea that you need to accelerate more to reach the end of capitalism, either via the end of humanity or the dawn of socialism/communism.
@@plastictouch6796 this is what some accelerationists believe, nick land is far more unhinged iirc
This dude is pro cyberpunk dystopia in such a brazen fashion that I can vibe with it.
gayest thing ive read all year
i don't see how this is any different than what n@zis or other fascist-futurists want?
At the risk of oversimplifying, accelerationism seems to be the suicidal impulses of a self-consciously intellectual person, albeit writ large and using big words. I.e. "I want to destroy myself, and I am smarter than most people and frequently correct; therefore, the smartest thing to do is to make everyone else suffer with me."
Consumerism and accelerationism is nihilism. It is a slow-motion suicide.
"creatively destructive marxist"
- i fear no oversimplification
Capitalism is already the death drive in motion, on a global scale.
I think this train of thought you described is everywhere all around
To me it just seems like copeium. "Yes, everything is getting worse and I have no idea how to reverse the trend. But that's good actually!"
Inequality is not even close to one of our biggest problems
You forgot the OG accelerationist:
“But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive.
It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point.
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution.
It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”
― Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade
is that from the not really video
@@asukayin6487 Marx in general had some “accelerationist” views. His analysis of how capitalism is driven through crisis and has the tendency to fluctuate is somethin accelerationist thinkers borrow.
In my opinion, the modern movement toward free trade has clearly done the opposite of exacerbating class antagonism. The qualities which Marx identifies as making the proletariat an ideal revolutionary class no longer applies to the workforces of modern post-industrial societies. The proletariat wasn't just equal to all working people, but specifically industrial workers who had a close relationship with large, fixed pieces of capital, such as factories and mines. Their proxitimity to the most valuable means of production would allow them to quickly seize control of the economy and install the dictatorship of the proletariat. However, most first world countries don't employ many industrial laborers but instead are primarily service economies. First world countries exported most industrial labor overseas in the latter 20th century and now its hard to find many finished products that are not largely produced overseas. In effect the first world has already exported the "revolutionary class" that Marx was waiting to arrive, so accelerating things won't change anything in America or Europe. And the countries which industry was exported to already encourage the kind of brutally unreglated capitalism accelerationist seem to prefer, so there's not much else to do if you're one of them. China is an example of a country which ran through the entire industrial revolution in a few decades and now has begun to catch up the the first world, and they're repeating the same process, exporting industrial labor overseas.
@@MrJethroha the simple counterpoint is that the proletariat is now all working people. Service economies still need labour to function, even with automation, and if anything are more susceptible to fissures because of its tenuous interlinked nature. Tube strikes in London were reported to cost £10 million per day, nationwide rail strikes £600 million per day, cost being attributed to absences mostly. It’s not free trade that has quieted class antagonism, it’s atomisation, paper tiger trade unions, aggressive governments, etc etc.
By the way, not telling you how to suck eggs, but even the Operaismos disregarded Marx’s specific definition of the proletariat and that was way back in the 70s. It’s long been understood that the proletariat ain’t swinging an axe or hammering steel no more.
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im sorry to hammer this home, but the entire section on the Ccru left much to be desired. Sadie Plant was not a Land sidekick; she founded the Ccru, not him. Crowley was not a Satanist and the Ccru literally wrote a text making fun of people who thought they were Satanists. it was not an accelerationist/neoreactionary research unit, and in fact, neither of those terms or viewpoints even existed at the time
Ccru subjects of interest were cyberfeminism, unorthodox semiotics, theories of sound, new understandings of textuality and fiction, and an extremely radical critique of the coherence of time. all of this is expressed elegantly in their occult work, which was not a tacked-on drug-addled deviation, rather a rigorous systematization of what had already been done. painting the work that many people, including many women, poured into this project as just a product of one man's drug addiction is enormously sketchy scholarship
I'm reading Sadie Plant's _Zero's and One's_ right now.
@@dethkon as you should! it's such an incredibly rich text. it also has one of the best openings of almost any book
As a paganarchist who considers Al Crowley to be essentially to me what Leo Tolstoy is to Christian anarchists I die a bit inside every time someone describes Frater Perdurabo as a Satanist.
@@tjenadonn6158 i empathize completely. thelemite-lemurian solidarity in having this particular problem
@@lilliansimons5802 And it's not even as if Satanists are bad people. I dated a Theistic Satanist for a while and he was an absolute gentleman in every capacity. It's just that describing Crowley and Thelema as Satanic is just as far off the mark as describing the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism as Christian. If you're going to get into fringe philosophers (speaking of which I'd like to see him try to make heads or tails of Robert Anton Wilson and the rest of the Discordians) at least get their philosophy right.
I actually gasped in excitement when I saw this notification
RIP Mark Fisher. The world is a darker place without him.
Accelerationism?
[Boots up Red Flood and plays as France]
LÉS GO, META CRISIS GO BRRRRR
Glad I saw this
Its difficult not to feel the need to just let go of the wheel and stop fighting these days. It would be comforting to just let capitalism lead to anarchy by distancing yourself from all the politics and worries of acceleration. The problem i feel with that argument is when we do hit that turning point of climate change or a fascist government it'll be impossible to remove yourself from the worries or hardships. Better to strive for better now so if acceleration does ruin us we can at least say we tried.
Guattari wrote some really good material on responding to this crisis, although he died before accelerationism existed. He argues that we should use all of the knowledge we accumulated to fight against these pressures. He basically believed that this society could produce machines that could change this, but a serious problem in the way is how capitalism influences "subjectivity production" or the creation of a subject and how they interface themselves with the world. In other words, we think too capitalist! He firmly believed that we had to change collectively our social relationship with things like science, medicine and technology to actually change the world, and he stressed how it wasn't just a human problem but an ecological problem.
This is why accelerationism is so frustrating because it's practically polar opposite of what Guattari believed.
Accelerationism is fundamentally very fatalistic imho. Try reading Guattari's later books... 3 ecologies and chaosmosis are both relatively short and explains his feelings on this.
@@PunishedFelix agreed. Accelerationism is the natural manifestation of a capitalist progression.
@@alfinkemal9133 you're 100% right!!
Spitin facts
Capitalism run amok is NOT anarchy - it is antithetical to anarchy, and generally fascistic. Anarchy means "without rulers"
I legit just bought the ccru book. Feels like you are reading my mind with the philosophy videos you put out and my own interests coinciding. Fucking scary.
I think we're collectively thinking of the same things. Collective consciousness stuff. The human giant is processing lots of things right now.
Read cyclonopedia!! But also read anti-oedipus and even a thousand plateaus first. Deleuze and Guattari play an incredibly important role securely tying critical theory to postmodernism. And how that sentence would upset some idiots in Congress and the PTA..
Carl Jung Aion
@@vibratoryuniverse308 yes!
@@vibratoryuniverse308 YESSSSS
Imma say this: although he has a point, there are so many aspects of reality not mentioned in this theory that can, possibly invalidate the theory itself. I won't even mention the subjectively weird part
Exactly this
That's because his cultural criticism is based on an economically deterministic view of the world mixed up with some postmodern nihilistic hermeticism. Probably one of the reasons why he hasn't embraced Alain De Benoist thought who is a sociologist that has played a key role in the development of the modern alt right.
It's more a narrative or cultural lens than a theory. A way of introducing the problems of our age to thinkers in an engaging way. The Left calls this Theory.
Bravo, the video quality never ceases to amazes me, always love the new notions you present in literature! 💓
Nick Lands accalerationism and his outlook on the human experience in some ways reminded me of mainländer, but his practical application was the exact opposite, where mainländer wanted to reduce suffering, land wanted to increase it or simply disregards it. As someone who adores Mark Fisher or K-Punk, im always astaunished when land is explained to me again. Even though fisher and land had similar ideas, fisher reminds me in his practicality more of mainländer.
It's not about ignoring suffering, it's about surpassing and overcoming human suffering by immersing the human subject into capitalism under the tradition of European Nihilism and coming out the other side as a Lovecraftian cyborg.
Have you checked out the book cyclonopedia? It holds a few of Nick land's (or the ccru's) most interesting ideas, plus a bit of a different self-subsuming deleuzian perspective, that material forces become psychologically harmful autonomous elements. So my favorite part of their ideas is that the earth has a mind of its own and through psychological manipulation is causing people to enter into a symbiotic relationship of dependence, one which is actually parasitic because there was no benefit to be had which was not compelled
It's also more about recognizing the immutability of confusion, fear and anger at the unknown-- I have always shied away from Nick Land because of the weird unscientific linguistics shit he was into. That stuffs like brain poison. Suffering is perceptual and has to be conveyed. Maybe he just doesn't see how pervasive suffering is.
More so how crippling
@@PulsatingShadow well, no, I disagree. Accelerationism is like a religion imo, even Nick Land states 'the definition itself is rapidly changing'.
How paradoxical that a way of giving up can seem to be so bold.
It may be because it's not really giving up, it's like walking away from a roulette table after not spending a dime. Ruckus grew too incessant and drinks started spilling, time to jacket up and leave this den of debauchery.
It is only giving up if your most fundamental identity is human. If you have something within you that is deeper than humanity, the process that brought us about and will continue move past us, accelerating past what we are is the carrying out of a mission, not giving up. How sad it would be if this was failed, and humanity was the high-point of life before it fizzled out into the cold.
@@zack49 But even this thought is defined based on a fundamentally human viewpoint, would a post-human creature even have this apreciation?
@@zack49 so tell me please - what is it then thats deeper than human in humanity itself? It's like saying a circle should focus on being square, it doesn't make sense. To me it feels like you are humanizing this so called process, a process which will continue to exist anyways even if we continue to exist or not. This process isn't human-oriented, you are humanizing it, which is a grave error. Life (which I think is the process which you refer to is) will continue with or without us. As humanity it is impossible to focus on anything other than humanity itself, we shouldn't try to move 'past' anything.
@@Vitorruy1 Our viewpoint is the human viewpoint, we can only do what seems best to us. People don't stop having kids because of the fact that some of them will turn out suicidal. In fact, it probably never crosses most people's minds during sex. People are hardwired to create new life just as the larger system of evolution is, and somthing past human will come inevitably simply as a result of our collective actions.
Damn, how can one video make me think of so many things and perspectives I haven't even thought of?
You are simply amazing Sisyphus55, thank you as always.
same here, this is very thought-provoking!
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@@talhanin8190 נהדר מה איתך?
@@nate.5642 thanks
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I love how this channel does little deep-dives into the thought of philosophers who would make great supervillains
There are no hero philosophers
@@Bunk801 your name and avatar makes it really hard to take anything you say seriously, morally speaking of course.
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GEt INTO NICK LAND AND DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO START AND THEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE UA-cam CHANNELS MAKES A VIDEO ABOUT HIM
HELL YEAH
I'd suggest 'A Quick and dirt Introduction to Accelerationism' by Land or his interview with Justin Murphy called 'Capital, intelligence and Ai'
@@audrey2433 Thank you!
You should def check out Mark Fisher, Land likes to affiliated himself with neo-nazis
Mr. Sisyphus I love you. thanks for making this channel it has, although I was already interested in it, pushed me to switch my major to philosophy so I can further my love. It may be crazy to say but this channel has made a big impact. :)
tfw you watch a video talking about a philosophy of acceleration of progress through capitalism and in the middle of it there is an ad break about a service which uses AI to help people deal with mental stress and insomnia...
THANK YOU for this one in particular. You help me learn about the world, and find new things to learn about.
"Human rights? Nah, that's just a hindrance to the embrace of the technocapitalist singularity!"
Man, this guy was insane, holy shit
I don’t understand this guy 🤣. Like where does he see himself in that system? And once he gets there what does that mean to him? I’m assuming his goal isn’t any kind of enjoyment, unless he’s part of sovereignty, but what about everyone else? Like it makes no sense, and anyone who actually sees merit in the ideals is most likely a bullied edgy 14 year old who hasn’t experienced enough of life.
I love Lord of Light, so glad to hear it being mentioned! I highly recommend it if you like Sci-Fi. It is not very long and I have re-read it many, many times.
What Techbros and Cryptobros sound like
“Dark Enlightenment” Sounds Epic
Get the feeling he hates his body, kind of like when you're having an out of body experience researching something, you think you've made some amazing connections that open up some kind of metaphysical portal to new understanding of everything, but you realise you're hungry, and have been hungry the last 2 or 3 days, but you can't be bothered to eat so you curse your body for existing and wish technology would hurry up already and transfer you onto some kind of collective consciousness machine.
Or maybe he's bipolar
Everyone hates their body, it completely subjugates the will and intellect. It's mortality symbolized
Prolly addicted to meth and intellectualized it.
But you're on to something. Post-modernity and structuralist's embarrassingly phrased "daring deconstruction" of the subject rejected any notion of human nature. Which - I find the fact that Foucault not being able to really respond to Chomskys position that our ability to know language is a universal human behavior in that debate to be the most simple rejection of that notion.
But it trying to destroy the subject in subject/object is fundamentally ridiculous. Simply by the premise that if there was no separation from subject to object - post-modernity/structuralism could not exist. Unless the knowing philosopher telling me is somehow magically inclined. Similarly - its strange for me to believe that one could conceive of different societies built from any outside coming in instead of within the system itself.
Humanism is unavoidable unless you want to be a religious nutcase or Nick Land.
hunger is critical to opening up new metaphy whatever you said
@@Se7enth351 The "will and intellect" does not exist outside the body. They are purely organic in their base and essence. Also "the soul" is another platonic make-believe.
@@anon2034 If you reduce everything to atoms nothing exists :) very insightful comment
So, it's Futurism with another name. We know how this ends.
hi Sisyphus, hope ur having a nice day. just here to say thanks for the content
Thank you for this. I've been intrigued by accelerationism and wanted to learn more. this clarified some of it's points well
I think that Lands line of thought on “human experience” makes a bit more sense with its context though Nietzsche’s moral thought. In the genealogy of morals, Nietzsche makes the point that language often logically misunderstands the dynamic between will and subject by assuming that the expression of strength is intrinsically tied to the identity which exercises it, like a popular interpretation “Simon killed the rabbit”, where Simon is the causal component to the death of the rabbit. What is more realistic, in Nietzsche’s eyes, is that the impulse which justifies higher mans use of will over the lower man is fundamentally autonomous and constitutes its own nervous system of ideology, hence making the “killing” of the rabbit the essential subject of the proposition. Land interprets the struggles and contradictions of humanism as the ‘plebeian’ equivalent of the algorithmic and self-certain values of capitalism and technology, which can fabricate its own propositions and thus its own image of god.
Great video, as always! You should talk more about Mark FIsher, Capitalist Realism was really an eye opener for me and it seems more relevant now than ever before!
Letting go of the wheel is literally how you transcend suffering.
Pitching yourself off a cliff is literally how you transcend suffering.
@@KindredPlagiarist I agree! Pure flight into the unknown. Better know you're gonna die though, or the suffering may only double....
@Sebastian Montoya running from death will not guarantee life
@Moerlboro Cop It seems to come more often when you don't.
@@ebioweifekumo3335 It may prolong it, at the very least
Ooo I’ve been needing to watch a good nick land vid to watch. His stuff goes way over my head
this is absolutely amazing and i would love to see more
Realistically, any form of human progress that's left unregulated and without the goal of maximizing human flourishing is concerning.
It's interesting to see how radically different his ideas were but I have yet to see how any authoritarian system is of benefit to anyone other than those who are in power...
Exactly. I wonder how my opinion on these things would change if I was no longer subject to those influences. I can’t imagine subscribing to a philosophy that doesn’t concern itself with the betterment of the lives of those who are oppressed by the current system and rather neglects them as nuisance.
@@misterdemocracy3335 i guess one benefit is to force people to strive to make a living for themselves and understand the fragility of life. but this is not the way
@@misterdemocracy3335 I don't concern myself with EVERY "Oppressed Population". That's not to say I don't think it's important to KNOW everyone.....I just....don't care about "some" of them 😂
Don't worry, the authoritarians will tell you, you just have to listen and believe, this time they have it, they're not just saying it, this is the real deal.
@@Illlium honestly I think authoritarianism is fine as long as it is traditionalist and Christian in nature. I used to be a libertarian hardcore, but unless everyone was a Christian it would never work.
I had a dream that Sisyphus made a video on Aleister Crowley, it would be interesting he kind of had a huge impact on occult traditions as the exist today, and inspired later movements that challenged the role of religious fundamentalism in the State, and he also opened occult practices to the public where they were previously only known and practiced behind the closed doors of aristocrats, i recommend it as a future video
Good luck with that
I he already misunderstand crowley as satanist
It’s a good thing I’m not a Nick Land fan . His problem is he can’t see that there already someone in charge like he imagines; No one can.
This man look at your average cyberpunk dystopia and said, "this is an acceptable state for humanity"
This is the best, fairest, most concise, and most accurate short summation of Land's work I've seen to date. Thank you.
nah, didn't even give a correct definition of accelerationism. hermetix does it justice
@@patf9770 I agree, hermetix is definitely better. But entropy and all he's tryna appeal to more people, so much of the signal is lost. But he did a better job than his Ted K thing here, maybe cause he takes him more seriously. I'm reminded due to the popularity of this video of Nick lands quote "as soon as the idea of accelerationism arrives on the market it will be too late". He made a couple big errors though, especially in his separation of capitalism and technology at the beggining, which it is essential within his framework to unify those concepts. Also his take on neoreaction is totally wrong, I don't know how he came up with that definition, maybe from some moldbug fans.
Who knows though, maybe this is a cyberguerilla from the future, who's making this video seem like family friendly content, while obscuring his glistening cybernetics
Then it must be the only one you saw to date
@@sergio4660 all the other ones have me the feeling that I need to read Hegel and Deleuze (at least) in order to get what's going on. Not Actually has a couple great ones too
@@adammilne1341 not actually's is infinitely better than this one
Have considered doing a video on Max Stirner? I just finished reading the Unique and his property and I find it in a way protoneichzian. But there is also a sense of humor in his work with the word play he uses.
Sense of humor is an understatement, it's rare to find so much sarcasm in a philosophy text after Kant, and I think some parts are straight out parody of Hegelian logic and book structure. I'm not sure if I want an overview of the book on youtube, I think that can only go wrong.
he already has, it’s called ‘THE MOST MISERABLE PHILOSOPHER OF ALL TIME’
He already has...
stirner was invented by Engels to fuck with Marx
@@anditcomesbacktoyou je, that's a good one
Excellent video. It was a very balanced and fair look at Land's work.
Good stuff, thanks for the information man.
god i hate youtube video essays
Hahaha yeah this video is actualy awfull and has simply a deep missunderstanding of the philosophy itself.
These guys really sound more like rimworld colonists then people.
Reality can be stranger than fiction.
Also, i disagree with accelerationism.
There is no dichotomy between the fictional and the real
try to disagree with the concept accelerationism is like disagree historical materialism, you can dislike or not the groups that used that real social concept, but you can't deny their existence or prevent it by just disliking and not doing nothing. Thats just like trying to stop a car crush you by just ignoring it insteads of just run.
This found me at a time in my life that seems almost poetic in it’s timing… thank you
The algorithm knows all
All gas no brakes, ALL GAS NO BRAKES!!!!
This channel has unconditionally become personal to me. I don’t think it’s healthy.
LETS GO! NICK LAND VIDEO HELL YEAH!
Thanks so much for this video.
WE NEED TO GO FASTER
you don't speed up capitalism because acceleration is the normal behaviour [Teleoplexy, Nick Land §01]
I’m understanding Accelerationism not as a philosophy, but as a fixation on the presumed inevitabilities of society. This fixation can lead to beliefs, and cultish tendencies. I don’t consider it a philosophy however, for philosophy is ultimately the study of self… there’s still more to unpack, accelerationism is an idea that overlooks the tenacity of the human self… yeah
godd you are so talented Sisypuss
I really do love your content
Sounds like these are those noobs that hear "the call of the void" (So to say that little, ner listened to, voice in some people when they look off of a bridge or a cliff that says "Let's Jump!") and actually freaking listened to it XD
have been waiting for the video on accelerationism since ocean is on fire and eco-axienty videos, finally it's here!
My friend recommended you to me in discord and thats one of the best happening in my life
Wow I didn’t expect that and it was great, thanks. Was feeling depressed and laying in bed and that flipped my script. Watched it twice to absorb and enjoy the humor, and yeah there’s definitely some real world scary shit in there, when confronted with it you have to laugh a little. I’m definitely going to make a govcorp shirt. Or smoke a joint. I do think his choice of chemicals played a part in his worldview, and again, wow. That was fun
I always interpreted accelerationism as "if we make things shitty enough, no-one will defend the capitalist system. Force them into revolutionary thought" and even I'm beginning to question that as too optimistic
it's not even really that from what I understand. it's just that "force(ing) them into revolutionary thought" is inevitably going to happen. Whether in 10 years or 100, the contradictions of capitalism will create the conditions for revolutionary thought. So if capitalism's collapse is inevitable, what's the utility in aiding in its continuance?
And i'm not sure what you mean exactly by it being too optimistic. There is a threshold of how bad things need to be before revolution becomes viable. This seems to be just a sociological fact.
But that's really not what it's about. At least not in the sense of Land or Fisher or even Sadie Plant (though her philosophical project is a bit different).
For Deleuze and Guattari, there's "lines of flight", which basically is intensifying tendencies that arise from capital (among other things). And by the normal development, these deterritorializations are halted before they commit fundamental change and their threat is contained by capital integrating whatever pushed them on.
Think of something like women's movements which are recuperated as women having to labor for a wage, situationist art that is more just a piece of market value, etc.
What Land and Fisher and all the others attempt to point out is that capitalism as a system has the tendency to intensify developments and that somewhere within capital there might be some tendency that will intensify and thereby change capitalism towards something else. The point isn't really to fight capital but to have capital outplay itself.
@@QuinnArgo this is a really good response but honestly you just made a much more complicated version of what you were responding to lol. Like exactly the same.
@@soulfuzz368 I do believe the difference is substantial. Acceleration is often misunderstood as "making things worse until they get better", an idea closer to a certain strand of Marxists who believe that social impoverishment leads to revolutionary fervor (historically it leads to fascistoid expression more than anything else).
The acceleration of picking up on a Thread that's already there is different insofar as that it is indifferent to experiential evaluation. Nick Land for example picks up on tendencies Deleuze and Guattari describe like dividualization, where the unified subject is increasingly divided into the different pieces of expression it takes, which he tries to lead to the end of the subject altogether.
Mark Fisher post-capitalist realism (as well as nowadays Srnicek, Williams and Co) tries to work with the desires that are already present, redirecting them to a postcapitalist Future. The point here is not to make things "worse" but actually to follow what people are invested in demanding already, wealth for everyone, the end of work, "the future now".
So, no, the difference is very important, acceleration is not about making things worse experientially, that is the sure way to fascism. Take the path of desire instead.
@@QuinnArgo theoretically I understand the difference for sure but applied in any way (no one is doing this btw) they aren’t really different ideas. I get it, people interested in philosophy don’t like reductionist takes but this bordering on fart sniffing imo.
I’m a blue collar guy so I am always asking how these ideas manifest in material reality, that is where the truth is.
For example if one person thinks technology will fix our problems and that’s good and another person thinks technology will make our problems really bad and this is also good, these people in a material sense don’t actually disagree.
It's bizarre to me and perhaps expressive of the very American soul of the "movement" that accelerationists should believe that deregulation will intensify the pace of development of capitalism, when in practice it typically leads to calcification, investors becoming more conservative and rent-seeking due to the state neither offsetting risk nor intervening to limit the natural parasitism of finance capital.
It also seems like a particularly low-engagement reading, as there are clearly some who make lots of noise about China (we should feel blessed for the documentation afforded us by a movement largely confined to Twitter), and "neo-China" is a particularly salient fixture of Land's writing.
Ah, should have watched through to the end. I would have liked to se more on this tension between deregulation and figures like Trump, and the proposition that China is the quintessential example of an accelerationist society.
Ayy, You are finally covering Nick Land
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That was extremely well done. I've been trying to get a handle on accelerationist philosophy for a minute because I have noticed that, at least in my part of the country, notions like that seem to be emerging from the background of lazy nihilism prevalent among my peers. It sounds like Nick land had some major personal problems that are shared with quite a few of my peers in the Midwest, namely an affinity for dangerous substances. His fascination with Crowley is also, in my experience, quite telling because Crowley had a sort of obsession with filth and degeneration in that he found it to be a beautiful process within his worldview. An appreciation for filth seems like it could very easily lead to an appreciation for the products of technocapitalism.
It's interesting to see that others view a monarchy, as a good thing. The techno-state monarchy is a tyranny, me thinks
He failed to mention how Land sees the CEO monarch as being elected by and serving a board of shareholders who own the resources of the area the CEO controls. Sounds more terrifying if you just call it totalitarianism as Sisyphus did when all it's really for is formalizing existing power and stripping out unnecessary beurocracy.
Huh? Never read Aristotles politics I guess. Platos Republic too... any Medieval or Christian philosophy of politics really
it's possible to have a good monarch
@@thelasttruegamer2221 but more possible to have a tyrannical one
@@kosh9019 some men would rather live under a more capable state, albeit more overtly tyrannical. Democracies are known to be ineffective and are not without their own tyranny
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great video, thank you
All of these comments that oppose Land calling him a suicidal nihilist, etc.!are devoid of an understanding of Land’s work on Weber and how the praxeological laws of the market necessarily dictate the movements of the human subject. Land is only make descriptions, never does he make a prescription. There isn’t an eschatology in (Landian) accelerationism, because there is never an end, nor is there a means…
The only Acc's that matter is U, Z and R. As Z is seeing the process of markets as negative feedback while r as positive. Land now is more of an u/acc rather than a r/acc it seems to me. They also should've done a reading of xenosystems lmao, as one of the most important aspects is to oppose universalism.
Gotta admit you lost me when you said “the Satanist, Aleister Crowley.” Wasn’t Crowley a Hermeticist who later converted to his own religion, Thelema? I don’t know that he was particularly Satanic
Crowley was an occult thinker who followed hermetic philosophy and teachings of the golden dawn, he betrayed the golden dawn only to start his own society, the A∴A∴ and is still followed today by many chaos mages and other post modern magicians, not exclusively satanists. sis55’s assessment of nick land isn’t necessary incorrect but the wide brush he paints in the effort to stick closely to Christian morality (but not Christian “teachings” or Christian ideals,) and materialism shows that in trying to show the fallacy of land’s meth fueled neurotica he is willing to trample over metaphysics and ontology in his attempt to do so. That is his choice to make, but I found it very midwitty to immediately gloss over an aspect of land based off of what your church going mom says about Crowley. Crowley had many satanic symbols in his system and at his core was a very dysfunctional person, but the satanic symbols in his system exist for their cabalistic significance, (something land talks ingeniously of including in cryptocurrency) and when calling himself “the beast” or “the beast 666” was only part of his tragic character and his personal complexes. to separate the man from his teachings is very important not only for nick land (which, if you’re not already discarding your perspective temporarily when you’re reading opposing opinions then what are you doing?) but for Crowley as well. I endorse people to instead of listening to someone gloss over an oddball like Crowley, to go balls to the wall if interested and simply see what he was about. don’t just stick to modernist-Christian and Aristotelian models of the world, make your own discoveries and conclusions. you cannot fathom how large your head really is.
Agreed. Theosophy is not Satanism.
@@dwaynesbadchemicals That's exactly what a Satanist *would* say 😂
He wasn't. Just like Trump was NEVER anti-establishment.
I find comments like yours so strangely condescending. Did someone "lost you" because they made a simple mistake? Have you ever tried to build a video like this?
Thsnks for this! 😃
yooo so glad you mentioned zelazny!
When adrenaline junkies try to write policy.
I think things are already moving much MUCH too fast as is. In my eyes humanity was never meant to be changing so insanely fast. However, this speed can be used for good but nowadays defeatism seems all the rage. Well... it's also insanely hard to do anything when half of people nowadays are depressed and/or suicidal. I can barely take care of myself and i have to actually meet people to even try to make a tiny change? Damn
Excellent ideas, deserves a comment
"Philosophy is a fantastic excuse for lack of a conscience" - John Luther
all I want to do is eat and sleep and that’s enough to make me happy ✌️👍
ACCELERATE
I met Nick Land before 1992 when he came to give a talk at our university. I was on the student committee in the philosophy department responsible for finding interesting speakers and inviting them along, and when I found Land's name in a catalogue I noticed in his research interests he'd included 'Thanatography'. I knew enough Greek to have an idea how intriguing that was, plus I think his other interests also sounded worth checking out, so I got him invited. It will have been 1991 or so.
He gave a talk on how humans were creating digital technology that will replace us, and how this was just the latest stage in evolution in some way. Of course there was more to it but I can't remember, plus actually there wasn't a huge amount to it and he was quite slow and repetitive in his delivery with lots of tongue-clicking. It wasn't taken terribly seriously by anybody, least of all the staff of course, and I don't think there was much Q&A or discussion. The Warwick department was seen as heavily into Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory which were generally seen as suspect.
Afterwards I got a chance to ask him about Thanatography. Had he actually in some way seen death and been able to draw or write about it? Yes, he said, in the sense of altered state experiences under the influence of certain drugs. So I inferred that he felt that in some of these experiences he'd died and observed what death was like, before coming back to life and being able to write about it. Not what we might immediately think of for such a word, but what he felt justified a term meaning "writing about death".
There was no sign at this point of any right-wing or neo-reactionary thinking. But there was an idea that we should accept the rise of new forces that will overtake us.
Crowley wasn't a Satanist BTW.
Awesome!! Please do a video on Georges Bataille
"The Satanist Aleister Crowley"- even the most basic bit of research reveals that Crowley was not a Satanist, makes you wonder what else this guy has got completely wrong...
The appearance of that terrible Vox article is a red flag
Was this part even important to the main topic?
Is it really all that important? The guy was into some wacky occult stuff, who cares about the specifics?
@@Illlium depending on an individual's viewpoint, any branch of philosophy could be considered 'wacky' and therefore indistinguishable from other branches that they considered similar. I.e from a highly religious viewpoint then all materialist philophies could be potentially lumped together and you could conclude that both Dawkins and Stalin were/are more or less espousing the same ideas as you consider the defining details irrelevant. When it comes to studying philosophy the defining details between one set of ideas and another are extremely important and this applies just as equally to esoteric and occult philosophy. The differences between Satanism and Western Hermeticism and Thelema are as significant as the differences between Druidism and Catholicism and Islam. Describing Crowley as a Satanist is like describing Osama Bin Laden as a militant Druid, just completely innacurate.
@@joesmithson1026 as someone that rejects supernatural claims to me it's a distinction without a difference. As far as we know Crowley wasn't a violent or malicious person, and neither are the vast majority of Satanists. Which name he flung on his banner is as important to me as which sports clubs he supported.
I find myself completely lost after watching these types of videos. I only hold a bachelor’s, I certainly don’t claim to be an SME. But my current frustration at not only the government but the massive corporations that currently “govern” more of my day to life than the corrupt politicians I “elected” leaves me with a want for change that I don’t know how to enact
How do you feel that corporations control your life? Not arguing just genuinely curious
"All gas, no brakes" as a policy strategy
This reminds me of Lovegood’s ecomodernist philosophy Strangely, the idea that we are entering an age in which artificial intelligence will be able to solve climate change.
“Human rights violations” shows an image of x.. i mean winnie pooh, well done sir.
What did Land hope to achieve with this bizarre implementation of accelerationism? What is the end goal? It doesn't seem to have one. It just seems to push towards ever more suffering with no payoff.
@antimagik corp I see plenty of suffering today, and it's going to get worse with climate change. The track were on right now will only get worse unless we make radical changes to our mode of production.
But besides that, I still don't see the goal of accelerationism. Atleast in Land's sense.
@antimagik corp
market-ideology is cringe
@antimagik corp so there is no goal is what I'm getting from this. Just a nihilistic push towards ever increasing production at the cost of the human species with no benefit.
@@Alex_Barbosa The point is to formalize a sophisticated argument which can be taken up by those who know they will benefit from the continued acceleration as a cudgel to beat brows with. Powerful people want to be loved, and yet they have defected in our global game of prisoner's dilemma. They must convince us that - actually - it's for our own good that they sold us out. They worship intelligence, and consider belief in trust to be a weakness, so there is no internal conflict in lying to your face, while also desperately wanting your approval. They need to trick us so they can remind themselves how much better they are than us, so as to feel good for the suffering they cause. Do not make the mistake of believing these ideas are communicated in good faith. They are tools. We are witness to communication via the toolmakers's paradigm, but we live in the sectors devoid of trees, so how could the schematics for a shovel be useful for us?
@antimagik corp capitalism clearly has some benefit but I don't see the benefit of going balls-to-the-wall while disregarding individuals. I don't understand Land's endgame.
whenever i hear anything about land or by land it always ends up just sounding like the edgy, misanthropic nihilism of a teenager but dressed up in academic language.
Sounds accurate, the same way that black race identitarians sound racist and feminists sounds misandric. Because they often can be.
great scifi book ,,when i read it in the 60's i never thought i would experience it
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lol its actually you
Laughing out loud. It is actually you.*