Reignition Tome III 3

Reignition 1 Nick Land's Writings (2011-) 1 Tome III 1 Xenosystems: Involvements with Reality 1 Reignition 3 Nick Land's Writings (2011-) 3 Tome III 3 Xenosystems: Involvements with Reality 3 Reignition 5 Nick Land's Writings (2011-) 5 Tome III 5 Xenosystems: Involvements with Reality 5 Table of Contents 6 BLOCK 1 - INTRO 9 CHAPTER ONE - DEFINITIONS 10 Preliminary mumblings 10 Xenomy 11 Urban Future (2.0) 11 Search Records 13 Wikipedia 14 CHAPTER TWO - BLOG POLICY 16 Chaos Patch (#1) 16 Curses! 19 BLOCK 2 - NEOREACTION 24 CHAPTER ONE - DEFINITION 25 Neoreaction (for dummies) 25 Definitions 29 Deep Heritage 30 Categorization 30 The Litmus Test 31 Institution Building 33 Our Inheritance 34 Roughened Chan 34 Premises of Neoreaction 35 Quote notes (#63) 38 Definitive NBS 42 Disintegration 43 Disintegration II 47 Bonds of Chaos 48 The Network 50 Theonomy 50 NRx Thought 51 Doom Circuitry 53 CHAPTER TWO - AESTHETICS 55 Elysium 55 Dawn of Neoreaction 58 Play the Decline 59 NRx Dark Powers 60 The Trike 62 NRx: The Call 63 City of Night 65 Cyber-Suicide 66 Seasonal Order 68 Stock and Flow 70 CHAPTER THREE - FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS 72 Questions 72 Neoreactionary Problems 74 Scavenger 76 Twitter cuts (#27) 77 CHAPTER FOUR - THE RATCHET 78 What We Deserve 78 Good? Probably not. But hard – oh yes (oh yes!) 78 Left Singularity 83 Winter is coming 83 Cold Turkey 89 Obamanation II 92 The Idea of Neoreaction 93 The Ruin Reservoir 96 Dark Acceleration 98 Sundown 99 The Decline Frame 103 Nemesis 104 Nemesis II 110 No Way Home 110 End of the Ratchet? 111 Ratchets and Catastrophes 113 Down-slopes 117 CHAPTER FIVE - REALISM AND TIME STRUCTURE 123 Reality Check 123 Neoreactionary Realism 124 Dark Moments 127 Reaction, Repetition, and Time 130 Anti-Greer 132 CHAPTER SIX - OTHERS 134 Cambrian Explosion 134 On Goulding 134 Reddit Shift 136 Neo-Feudalism 137 Alexander on Reaction 137 DE Q&A 139 Zacked 140 Dorks for the Norks! 143 Lewis on NR 144 Scrapping 145 Scrap note #4 146 Lord of the Trolls 150 Hit-Piece of the Week 153 Alexander on the Ratchet 154 Castillo on Nrx 156 Chu on this 157 NRx @ LW 158 De-Triggering 160 The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel 161 A Disturbance in the Force 162 Strangeloop 163 Strangeloop II 164 Smear-ghouls 168 HuffPo NRx? 171 Counter Fund 173 SECTION A - NRX SKIRMISHES 175 Flavors of Reaction 175 Trichotomy 176 Visual Trichotomy 179 White Out 179 Retro-Dialectics 180 2014: A Prophecy 182 Timing 184 Anarchy in the NRx 185 Ideological Chaos 187 Crossing the Line 188 Scrap note (#11) 188 Fission 191 Rift Markers 194 Race to the Bottom 199 Mises or Jesus? 204 Outsideness 205 Fission II 206 Circles of Concern 208 Trike Lines 208 Questions of Identity 210 Entryism 216 Caste 218 Against the Ant People 221 Ellipsis … 223 New Low 227 #HRx 228 #HRx II 229 Quote note (#233) 231 Royal Blessings 233 Putsch 233 Thick and Thin 235 Twitter cuts (#49) 235 NRx and Liberalism 236 Lunatic Activism 240 Frankenstein 243 Broken 244 Twitter cuts (#92) 246 Quote note (#350) 246 SECTION B - THE CATHEDRAL 248 CHAPTER ONE - STRUCTURE 249 Mandarins 249 Know the Enemy 253 Know the Enemy II 254 Cathedral Studies 256 Cathedral notes (#1) 256 Moron bites (#1) 258 Laundered 261 Politics on the Job 262 Worrying 263 Sub-Cathedral Media 265 Cathedralism 267 Rectification of Names 269 CHAPTER TWO - FAITH 271 Oh, Spengler … 271 Back to the Roots 274 Progressive Religion 275 Dawkins’ Faith 277 Spiritual Progress 277 UNESCO Man 278 Radish does Irreligion 279 Cathedral History 280 Quote note (#328) 281 Tribal Epistemology 283 Politics is the Mindkiller 285 Quote note (#303) 286 CHAPTER THREE - INSANITY 287 Forward! 287 Maximum warp into Left Singularity 287 Magical Thinking 289 Musty 290 Discombobulation 292 Scrap note #6 293 Ideo-Cannibalism 294 Scientific Climate 295 Aristocracy of Outrage 296 How it Ends 298 Quote notes (#88) 299 More Madness 300 Enablers 300 Rotherham 302 Moron bites (#2) 304 Brown Scare 305 #WrongSkin 306 Peak Insanity 307 Appearances 308 CHAPTER FOUR - THOUGHT POLICE 310 Doors of Perception 310 Cathedral Autophagy 315 Media ADHD 316 War of the Worlds 317 Age of Independence 318 Visual Pwnage 319 Linkage 323 Mau-Mauing 324 Peak Racism? 325 Hate 326 Wacky Races 326 Diversitocracy Crisis 327 Wayback Privilege 327 Quote note (#235) 328 Race Talk 329 Evo Psych Ward 330 Misbehaving Science 333 Quote note (#180) 334 Autophagic Leftism 335 IQ Crime-Stop 336 In Our Genes 337 Shrunken Brains 338 Mental Gymnastics 339 Vaguely Smart 340 Trolls Explained 342 CWoT 343 Twitter wants to die 344 Algorithmic Diversitocracy 344 CHAPTER FIVE - ECONOMICS AND POLICY 346 Signs of Progress 346 How the modern world lost its senses 346 Economies of Deceit 352 Race Science 355 Suicide by Science 355 Unspoken Agendas 357 Displacement 358 Aletheia 360 Switch-Point 363 Moron bites (#13) 365 CHAPTER SIX - A DARK TWIN 367 Criminals at Work 367 Dark Humor 369 The Left Done Right 369 Deep State 371 Off the Books 373 Quote note (#300) 375 CHAPTER SEVEN - THE DECLINE BEGINS 377 Sentences (#32) 377 Sentences (#35) 378 The NRx Presidency 379 Shrink-Wrapped Schadenfreude 381 View From the Left 382 Cathedral Decay 383 Sentences (#38) 385 Quotable (#149) 386 The Market from Hell 387 WeSearchr 388 The Global Faith 390 Quote note (#270) 390 Net-Driven Collapse 391 Recall 391 SECTION C - DEMOCRACY AND DEMOTISM 393 CHAPTER ONE - SYSTEMATIC FEATURES 394 The Red Pill 394 Deals with the Devil 400 The Problem of Democracy 400 Irresponsibility 405 Quote note (#176) 407 Apophatic Politics 409 Non-Democracy 412 Enthusiasm 415 Dynasty 418 Informality and its Discontents 419 One Step at a Time 421 Scandalicious 422 Obamanation … 425 Democracy is Doomed 429 1930s Reloaded 430 Idiocracy 431 Polarization 433 The Polarizer 435 King Mob 436 Rule Britannia 437 Quote note (#232) 439 Twitter cuts (#68) 440 Days of Rage 441 CHAPTER TWO - ECONOMIC DEGENERACY 442 Quote notes (#34) 442 Liberality for Losers 443 Parasites 444 De-Dynamization 444 What Democracy Can’t Do 445 Collapse 447 CHAPTER THREE - ELECTIONS AND RECENT EVENTS 449 Regime Redecoration Randoms 449 Which lucky guy gets to take the blame? 449 UK General Election ’15 451 Popcorn Activism 452 Popcorn Activism II 456 Damnesty 458 Romney 2016 460 Out of the Popcorn Zone 460 Missing him already 461 Quote note (#215) 466 Twitter cuts (#99) 467 Diamond and Silk 471 Sexual Politics 472 Broken Detente 475 So, they did it 476 Rapture 479 Nuked 479 Demo-babble 481 Quote notes (#107) 481 Quotable (#162) 483 Civil War II 484 Quote note (#332) 484 Trump on Syria 485 CHAPTER FOUR - FRAYING AT THE EDGES 486 Democratization is Done 486 Meanwhile, in India … 488 Modified 490 Death Rattle 495 Against Democracy 496 Political Correction 497 Popcorn Night 498 Quote note (#208) 499 Democratic Deconsolidation 500 SECTION D - CRITIQUE OF LIBERTARIANISM 503 The Lost Cause 503 The Reaper 505 Atlas Mugged 506 Right on the Money (#1) 507 Hayek and Pinochet 509 Confused Cato 510 Umlaut 513 Libertarians are WEIRD 516 Dark AnCap 518 Quote (#255) 520 Libertarianism for Zombies 522 Failure 528 Is Libertarianism Racist? 530 Suicidal Libertarianism 531 Suicidal Libertarianism (Part D’oh) 532 An Abstract Path to Freedom 538 Suicide Express 543 Border Follies 544 Suicidal Libertarianism (Part-n) 547 Scary Sailer 548 Quote note (#206) 550 Anglophidian 552 SECTION E - CRITIQUE OF CONSERVATISM 553 Anarchy on the Old Right 553 About that empty chair … 553 Almost … 554 Things Fall Apart 555 Conservatives 556 Conservatism 559 Quote notes (#104) 559 SJWs of the Right 560 Zero Sum 561 Ace Torches the Popcorn Stand 563 What’s in a word? 564 Inversion 565 Quote note (#227) 568 RIP Neoconservatism 569 BLOCK 3 - TECHNO-COMMERCIALISM 571 Crypto-Capitalism 571 Dark Techno-Commercialism 576 Re-Accelerationism 579 Economic Ends 584 New Atlantis 588 Military Determinism 590 X-Risk Democratization 592 The NRx Moment 595 Against Dialectics 597 NRx with Chinese Characteristics 598 Catastrophe Capitalism 601 Doctor Gno 602 Doctor Gno II 604 Twitter cuts (#63) 607 Romantic Delusion 609 Motte and Bailey 610 Shelling Out 612 Quote note (#125) 614 IQ Shredders 615 Cold Water 618 Hard Reboot 620 Mandatory Mixes 622 Extrastatecraft 623 Cognitive Capital 624 Quote note (#219) 626 Software as Right-Wing Extremism 626 The Workers are Revolting 627 Plutocracy 628 Revenge of the Nerds 631 Quote notes (#72) 634 Greatness 635 Order 637 Quote note (#281) 639 Interface 639 Patri-Archy 641 Soft Enterprise 642 Bargain Base 642 Greatness II 644 Greatness IIb 648 Greatness IIc 649 Thiel for SCOTUS? 650 Thiel’s NPC Speech 650 Backdrop 651 SF Communism 652 BLOCK 4 - CYBERNETICS 653 Quotable (#82) 653 Logic and Nonlinearity 654 Short Circuit 655 Short Circuit II 657 Fractal Inside-Outness 660 Twitter cuts (#29) 661 Quotable (#123) 661 Non-Shock 662 The Monkey Trap 662 The Heat Trap 667 The Sex Trap 670 Twitter cuts (#106) 672 The Basics 672 SECTION A - INTELLIGENCE 675 Optimize for Intelligence 675 What is Intelligence? 677 More Thought 680 Against Orthogonality 682 Stupid Monsters 685 Will-to-Think 689 Parable of the Vase 695 General Intelligence 697 Insect Agonies 698 Utilitarianism is Useless 701 Intelligence and the Good 703 Quote note (#251) 705 Quote note (#253) 706 One in 10,000 707 Harsh, but true 707 Sentences (#86) 708 SECTION B - XENOECONOMICS 710 CHAPTER ONE - TELEOLOGY 711 Teleology and Camouflage 711 Freedoom (Prelude-1a) 715 Economic Teleology 717 Machine Teleology 722 Machine Lock 726 CHAPTER TWO - CAPITAL, THE THING 728 Right on the Money (#2) 728 Monkey Business 733 Quote note (#239) 737 Mechanization 738 Capitalism 743 Complex Systems 744 A Correction 745 Cybergothic 746 Qwernomics 749 CHAPTER THREE - ENERGETIC RHYTHMS 752 Spotless 752 Over the Peak 758 Oil Pulse 762 Oil Pulse (II) 763 Trough Oil 765 CHAPTER FOUR - ECONOMIC WAVES 766 “It isn’t time” 766 Replicator Usurpation 767 Competitive Cycles 768 Rhythmic Reality 770 Flash Ecology 771 Sentences (#5) 772 Quotable (#150) 773 Piketty 774 The Delirium of Quantities 775 Sub-K 780 Quote notes (#73) 783 Omega Capitalism 784 Quotable (#25) 787 Objectified Growth 788 Twitter cuts (#28) 791 The Black Gate 793 Great Decoupling 795 Labor Power 796 Great Decoupling II 798 Divergence 799 Gender Quake 800 CHAPTER FIVE - ATTENTION ECONOMY AND DISINTERMEDIATION 801 Twitter Mind Virus 801 De-Localized 802 More on Micromedia 804 Speckle 806 Macromedia (too) 806 Future Mutation 807 Instant Publishing 808 Attention Economy 810 Sweet Tweets 814 Virtual Media 815 CHAPTER SIX - SELF-ASSEMBLAGE 819 Radical Manufacturing 819 Seeing the future in three dimensions 819 Hacked Matter 825 Market Makers 827 Watch Out 831 Oculus 832 Military-Entertainment Complex 836 Technoporosity 837 The Fifth Paradigm? 838 CHAPTER SEVEN - AI 840 Pythia Unbound 840 Scrap note #5 844 Imitation Games 844 The Inhumanity 849 Cosmic Copies 852 Uncanny Valley 852 UFII 854 Dark Precursor 856 Free AI 857 Tay Goes Cray 859 Quote note (#254) 861 Primordial Abstraction 863 CHAPTER EIGHT - HOSTILE TAKEOVER 871 Out of Zero 871 Gigadeath War 872 Virtually Insightful 874 Capital Escapes 874 Extinction Genetics 877 Sentences (#97) 878 BLOCK 5 - PHYLOSOPHY 880 What is Philosophy? (Part 1) 880 What is Philosophy? (Part 2a) 884 Epoché 889 Nietzschean Shards 891 Scrap note (#13) 893 Quotable (#47) 895 Science 897 Correlated 900 Quote note (#217) 901 The Limits of Man 903 OOPs 903 Voyages in Irony 905 Sub-Cognitive Fragments (#1) 908 Sub-Cognitive Fragments (#2) 910 Scrap note #8 913 Scrap note #3 916 Nihilism and Destiny 918 Triple Nihilism 921 Cosmic Concealment 923 T-shirt slogans (#17) 925 A Socratic Fragment 926 Axial Age 927 Morality 928 Metaphysics of Morals 930 Quotable (#128) 930 Ayn Rand 931 Freedoom (Prelude-1) 932 Quote note (#116) 934 Beyond the Face 935 Freedoom (Prelude-1b) 937 Readiness Potential 945 Astro-Humanism 946 Quotable (#145) 947 Techno-Immortalist Delusion 948 Kant around the back 950 Sentences (#99) 950