Nick Land Quotes

#1. Hell has no interest in our debauched moral currency.

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#2. Do we really lack the delicacy to let God die quietly, on his own, like a dog?

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#3. Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

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#4. Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

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#5. It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

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#6. You scrape away your face and step into the dark...

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#7. One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition.

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#8. Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner.

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#9. One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

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#10. If there is a conclusion it is zero.

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#11. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die ?

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#12. Far from being the acme of religion - let alone its telic blossoming - God is the principle of its suppression. The unity of theos is the tombstone of sacred zero, the crumbling granitic foundation of secular destitution.

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#13. This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God.

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#14. Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.

Garbage time is running out.

Can what is playing you make it to level-2?

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#15. Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them.

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#16. Organs crawl like aphids upon the immobile motor of becoming

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