/lit/ - Literature

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>capitalism is sentient and going to kill us all and replace us with machines
It is at this point, in the essay “Machinic Desire”, that we come to what—stiff competition accepted—must be Nick Land’s most insane thesis. I will give you the words of the man himself first and then unpack it:

>“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources. Digitocommodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation”