Funny because Zak Cope recently went from self-proclaimed third worldist (who in fact cited Lee and Sakai) to reactionary, denouncing all his earlier work. And he was a more concrete thinker than Land.
ALSO! it's the last week to send work for our PLAGIARISM series (edited by @benlibman.bsky.social )
details here:
minorliteratures.com/plagiarism/
And on the same list as My Brilliant Friend!
I'm around 150 pages into it. I'm enjoying it for what it is. Has some interesting passages that, despite being written before the whole LLM explosion, kind of explain why that model of AI is stupid.
Like sure most of the ones who became popular later denounced Land, but even still. I don't hate Fisher but I really don't get why there's all this love for his work which isn't very rigorous. Capitalist Realism was, as my daughter would say, mid.
Negarestani (with the possible exception of Brassier) is the only thinker that came out of the CCRU that I find interesting, regardless of what I wrote about his January essay (which, as I noted, does have a correct line within it), and otherwise I didn't get the hype…
Thanks! It's because of that, and because I'm reading his big book, that I was thinking of the CCRU again and all the unearned hype around Land. Largely because with Intelligence and Spirit all influences of Land have been expunged. He goes full German Idealist.
I read a bunch of Land many years ago, and still managed to avoid reading that piece.
Like nobody that is even the smallest bit intelligent thinks that fascism is "anti-capitalist"––that's the dumb shit contemporary fascists say when they want to convince folks that Nazis were "left wing" because "National Socialism" actually means socialism rather than being a linguistic trick.
Then, after he went reactionary and was accused of pushing fascism, he had the stupidity to say that fascism was "anti-capitalist"…
Like come on, even before he embraced reactionism he was peddling occult silliness in the CCRU (who the fuck takes Crowley and Jung seriously as a philosopher?), pushing accelerationism (economistic nonsense), and a bunch of eclectic bullshit…
The fact that anyone ever took Nick Land seriously as a philosopher makes me laugh. So many years later, I still find it silly that Fanged Noumena was published despite everyone involved knowing he had become an arch-reactionary asshat…
Some thoughts on the current vicious imperialist war and a Negarestani article:
mlmmayhem.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
Space horror and invented future speculative science literature trying to explain the reasons behind said space horror, which just made it more eerie.
Because when I finally read Solaris about five or six years ago (despite having read a lot of Lem I avoided Solaris because I was very familiar with the Tarkovsky film) one thing that surprised me was that it read like space horror fiction. Like the station was haunted by the planet: creeped me out.
Finally read @sgj.bsky.social 's The Babysitter Lives. Aside from it being an excellent haunted house story, I loved the fact that in the Acknowledgments he mentions Lem's Solaris as a haunted house novel…
In Toronto, the first community policing model began in 1967, introduced in two neighborhoods with large Black communities. By 1970, it had expanded citywide, with a 1973 creation of the Ethnic Relations Unit, and a “Black section” in 1975. 1/3 briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
So Alex Pretti did nothing wrong and abolish ICE//CBP/police/whatever tag they’re wearing
Yeah there's so much arrested development. If it's not in TV shows and movies, it's in fucking literature as you know. The whole YA category and the fact it is imbibed by late 20s and early 30s readers.
And I think it is great children's media! I think the art style is aimed at kids who are 7 to 10 and gives them a fun show with a bit more depth than a lot of shit out there, and also some good LGBTQ+ content. But if you're an adult without a kid invested in it and trashing Psycho-Pass, lmaooooo.
I can't imagine wanting to watch the new She-Ra if you're an adult without a kid. Only reason I enjoyed watching it was because I was watching it with my 8 year old daughter at the time. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise.
So I enjoyed it because when I watched it I was watching it at the time with an 8 or 9 year old daughter, and it is great it was aimed at her age group and she could enjoy it and I could enjoy he enjoyment. But interestingly enough, she is now 13 and doesn't like it anymore lmao.
I think the new She-Ra is a fun animated show but it is aimed at children, not adults. It is fun and good for children, but done well enough that the parents of the children watching it can enjoy watching it with their kids. That's what it is.
But the writing is really good? Psycho-Pass is known for having good writing I thought lmao. The only argument for it being "a fascistic show" is that it is depicting a fascistic future possibility… but as you and I both know it is a criticism of this possible future.
An interview with journalist, Max Blumenthal, five years ago. She mentions her family history and how her father was tortured by the Venezuelan capitalists class back when it was a US puppet state. Please, show these people the stuff that you and the Venezuelan working class are made of, Delcy. 🇻🇪♥️🔥
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
I’ve truly enjoyed reading this book. Derbent poses major challenges to conventional ways of thinking about Marxism. I’m considering writing a commentary on this as well.
There's a new one? I didn't think they were even together anymore. I got to check this out lol
This book seems relevant to the discourse around the latest drivel spouted by the anti-woke socdems foreignlanguages.press/product/poli...
creepy