Киберготика

The second volume of the writings of the English philosopher and writer Nick Land includes the works that began his invasion from the future. In them, Land refuses comments that more or less fit into the usual historical and philosophical format, and instead turns to a theoretical-fictional consideration of the problems of the future that haunt us today. If earlier his companions included Nietzsche, Bataille, Cioran and Trakl, now the narrative unfolds against the backdrop of wars between transnational corporations, people and artificial intelligence, and the main characters are computer viruses, fugitive replicants, terminators, Wintermute and Colonel Kurtz, fused with cyberspace matrix and fiber optic jungle. The experimental texts collected in this volume, in many respects even more than subsequent ones, retain their relevance for the perception of Land's philosophical and political agenda today. It is in them that the foundations of Land's version of accelerationism are found, according to which Capital has long embodies the fate of the entire cosmos, the share of intellect and the fate of mankind.