Hi JMG, I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on the academic Nick Land, whose work has gained surprising traction in the past decade under the name "accelerationism"? The theory being that Capital is the creation of a demon entity that reorganizes human society at will, and that the acceleration of Capital will lead to a non-human future. Paradoxically Land embraces and celebrates this inevitability. It might be helpful to state that his work is a mix of Deleuze, Lovecraft Marx, Crowley, and presumably lots of stimulants.
It seems spiritually dangerous to recklessly communicate with random entities, if not completely evil to attempt to accelerate the end of humanity's annihilation (and perhaps concerning that it's birthed a whole adjacent 'movement' of cryptocurrency, political philosophy, and digital art).
Are these types of people simply the modern manifestation of the left hand path Faustian magician, albeit updated with modern garb of cybernetics and techno-capitalism?
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Date: 2022-05-30 11:42 pm (UTC)It seems spiritually dangerous to recklessly communicate with random entities, if not completely evil to attempt to accelerate the end of humanity's annihilation (and perhaps concerning that it's birthed a whole adjacent 'movement' of cryptocurrency, political philosophy, and digital art).
Are these types of people simply the modern manifestation of the left hand path Faustian magician, albeit updated with modern garb of cybernetics and techno-capitalism?