Good to see larger channels try and tackle Land's most infamous essay. It's not too bad as long as you possess a basic understanding of Kant, Bataille, D&G, Gibson, Boltzmann, Lovecraft, Conrad, and Cronenberg. Best of luck to you boys. Cheers! ^_^
Here’s how I interpreted the “hot and cold culture” bit. I see hot cultures as a sort of release of energy that happens when cold cultures break down and lose the things holding their bonds together. They’re rapidly changing and innovative, but still hold onto vestiges of the past that their “cold” counterparts had. Perfect examples of this are Soviet Russia and Germany. Everything from the music, the legal traditions, even down to the very uniforms worn in these regimes was borrowed, or “recycled” from the dead regimes they replaced, yet at the same time, they claimef and aspired to be something new and future-oriented. Needless to say this happens in America too, where long-dead documents like the constitution are held up as a justification for state-mandated homosexuality and transitioning children.
Isn’t the “work-home” boundary a pretty modern conception in itself, though? In pre-modernity, your work *was* your home. You’d work a farm or some highly specialized trade with your family in your home. The very idea of even being a full time employee for someone else would have been alien. In a weird roundabout way, we’re seeing a return to that, where our homes are *re-integrating* with our work.
@@AuronMacIntyre Oh yeah for sure there’s a qualitative distinction to be made. The arrangement’s obviously terrible for us today. I just find it ironic in a way lol. “Neofeudalism” really does fit in some ways, though some might hate that label for giving feudalism a bad name.
A fair point, but I think there's a distinction between saying that you live at your place of work, vs you wor k from your home, but it is really remote work for someone else that has nothing to do with your place of living. i.e. There is a qualitative difference between the Craftsman who lives above his workshop, or the farmer who walks out of his front door in the morning to go tend his crops or his flock, or even The Apprentice who works for the blacksmith but is given a room to live in, versus doing your email job for your multinational corporation while sitting in your bed, we're setting up your desk in your living room so that you can work for some marketing company while you never leave your house.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Lol yeah I agree. It’s more a corruption of the old practices if anything. Sure in the 1400s you paid taxes to a noble or whatever, but there was still a sense of ownership over your home and connection to your work. Now it’s like every waking moment of your life is being rented out to someone.
he has good ideas, but I really can't stand intellectuals who are constantly trying to "blow your mind" in Yarvin's latest on Gray Mirror he has a line that's like, "you still have a chance to back out and stop reading before I destroy your mind forever" bro, Curtis, you were on Lex Friedman. You're not the frickin' warp from Warhammer 40k. Just chill.
Dang, barely missed the livestream. Looking forward to more of this series though. Sometimes if I’m alone in my room and feel like getting schizopilled I’ll just put on an AI reading of this and let my mind wander. I learn something new every time.
Cheers for the shout-out, Prud. Really enjoyed our chat as well.
Thanks to Alex Jones this is one frog they didn't turn gay.
Thanks you 2 for continuing to introduce me to Nick Land!
Keep breathing this down and I'll keep watching.
Good to see larger channels try and tackle Land's most infamous essay. It's not too bad as long as you possess a basic understanding of Kant, Bataille, D&G, Gibson, Boltzmann, Lovecraft, Conrad, and Cronenberg. Best of luck to you boys. Cheers! ^_^
Who is d&g , boltzmamn and Conrad?
I like to imagine there's a universe in which Nick Land got bullied more in highschool, and as a result his writing is very clear and concise
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Shoutouts to Bazed Lit Analyzer for giving me the deep lore necessary to predict the novel quote would be from "White Noise."
BLA!
@@Lascts25 PBR Streetgang, rise up!
The real meltdown was the friends we made along all the way
Here’s how I interpreted the “hot and cold culture” bit.
I see hot cultures as a sort of release of energy that happens when cold cultures break down and lose the things holding their bonds together. They’re rapidly changing and innovative, but still hold onto vestiges of the past that their “cold” counterparts had.
Perfect examples of this are Soviet Russia and Germany. Everything from the music, the legal traditions, even down to the very uniforms worn in these regimes was borrowed, or “recycled” from the dead regimes they replaced, yet at the same time, they claimef and aspired to be something new and future-oriented.
Needless to say this happens in America too, where long-dead documents like the constitution are held up as a justification for state-mandated homosexuality and transitioning children.
43:30 additionally the Jobs biopic, The Social Network, Ford Vs Ferrari, House of Gucci.
Love these
Normal people go to bible study
I'm waiting for the continuation of the meltdown analysis
Isn’t the “work-home” boundary a pretty modern conception in itself, though? In pre-modernity, your work *was* your home. You’d work a farm or some highly specialized trade with your family in your home. The very idea of even being a full time employee for someone else would have been alien.
In a weird roundabout way, we’re seeing a return to that, where our homes are *re-integrating* with our work.
I think the key distinction there is the wage labor as opposed to a family farm or business
@@AuronMacIntyre Oh yeah for sure there’s a qualitative distinction to be made. The arrangement’s obviously terrible for us today. I just find it ironic in a way lol. “Neofeudalism” really does fit in some ways, though some might hate that label for giving feudalism a bad name.
A fair point, but I think there's a distinction between saying that you live at your place of work, vs you wor k from your home, but it is really remote work for someone else that has nothing to do with your place of living.
i.e. There is a qualitative difference between the Craftsman who lives above his workshop, or the farmer who walks out of his front door in the morning to go tend his crops or his flock, or even The Apprentice who works for the blacksmith but is given a room to live in, versus doing your email job for your multinational corporation while sitting in your bed, we're setting up your desk in your living room so that you can work for some marketing company while you never leave your house.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Lol yeah I agree. It’s more a corruption of the old practices if anything. Sure in the 1400s you paid taxes to a noble or whatever, but there was still a sense of ownership over your home and connection to your work. Now it’s like every waking moment of your life is being rented out to someone.
This essay sounds like the lyrics to some progrock concept album
Why does Nick Land look like Dick Winters from Band of Brothers?
Absolutely!
Man, is it already Friday, again?
Too many needlessly esoteric words. Land needs chill out. Not saying I didn't understand, but damn. We get it Land. Youre a big brain boy
Its awful to see a string of stupid words that are trying to sound clever but make him sound like a pseudo-intellect. Academia writ large I suppose
he has good ideas, but I really can't stand intellectuals who are constantly trying to "blow your mind"
in Yarvin's latest on Gray Mirror he has a line that's like, "you still have a chance to back out and stop reading before I destroy your mind forever"
bro, Curtis, you were on Lex Friedman. You're not the frickin' warp from Warhammer 40k. Just chill.
This is language the academy takes seriously? Well, sadly that checks out.
Its easier to pretend it's sophisticated when you cant understand it.
The absolute state of Nick Land.
Are we going to cover his utterly brainfried period?
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Nick land is obviously very intelligent and insightful, but man is his writing style pretentious lol
Ah yes
Dang, barely missed the livestream. Looking forward to more of this series though. Sometimes if I’m alone in my room and feel like getting schizopilled I’ll just put on an AI reading of this and let my mind wander. I learn something new every time.
Academic word salad style-I hate modern academic writing so much
45 people on today's lamestream 😂 😂 😂 #Drumpf2024
40:51 “Internationalize”