I had the pleasure today of spending two and a half hours in a Zoom conversation with Nick Land, post-postmodernist philosopher and occultist, the man who bridges the gap between Situationism and sorcery. Land, for those who haven't followed him, was the leading figure in CCRU, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, which started out as an academic project at Warwick University, England, and promptly went zooming out into the far reaches, pursuing a splintered vision of reality which out-Cyberpunked the Cyberpunk movement in science fiction while simultaneously blending in great dollops of post-Marxist political economy, avant-garde philosophy, weird fiction, and occultism. These days Land's writings are extremely popular among Silicon Valley tech bros and the more abstruse end of the Chaos magic scene.
It would be hard to find two serious occult thinkers these days whose ideas have less in common than Land and me. Fortunately both of us have the massively unfashionable habit of being able to disagree without being a jerk about it, so we had a fine lively discussion that covered a great deal of ground, and we'll be doing another podcast conversation as soon as it's mutually convenient. Kudos to James Ellis of the Hermitix podcast, who got the ball rolling, and Michael Downs and Bryce Nance of The Dangerous Maybe podcast for making it happen. You can take it in on Youtube
here.
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ecosophia
Wow
Date: 2026-03-16 04:28 pm (UTC)Just finished this. I followed Land's old blog on and off years ago. Found it cool that his son actually follows you and sides with your take more than his own father haha, and Land has actually engaged with your work quite a bit as well, which shows in this conversation.
Re: Wow
Date: 2026-03-17 05:39 pm (UTC)