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title: '<cite class="book">Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987&ndash;2007</cite>'
author: Ben
type: quotes
date: 2020-07-11T11:34:24+00:00
url: /quotes/fanged-noumena-collected-writings-1987-2007/
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> There are few horrors comparable to that of the master legislator who realizes that _anarchy is still permitted_.<footer>Nick Land, 
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> <cite class="article">Art as Insurrection</cite></footer> 
> What the philosophers have never understood is this: it is the _unintelligibility of the world alone that gives it worth_.<footer>Nick Land, 
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> <cite class="article">Art as Insurrection</cite></footer> 
> Sociological fundamentalism, state worship, totalitarian paranoia and fascism, they all exhibit the same basic impulse; hatred of art, (real) freedom, desire, everything that cannot be controlled, regulated, and administered. Fascism hates aliens, migrant workers, the homeless, rootless people of every kind and inclination, everything evocative of excitement and uncertainty, women, artists, lunatics, drifting sexual drives, liquids, impurity, and abandonment.
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> Philsophy, in its longing to rationalize, formalize, define, delimit, to terminate enigma and uncertainty, to co-operate wholeheartedly with the police, is nihilistic in the ultimate sense that it strives for the immobile perfection of death.<footer>Nick Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Art as Insurrection</cite></footer> 
> Let us not forget that philosophy is also primate psychology; that our loftiest speculations are merely picking through a miniscule region of the variegated slime encrusting a speck of dust.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Spirit and Teeth</cite></footer> 
> The refusal to accept a dungeon is no substitute for a hole in the wall. Only in a voyage to the unknown is there real escape from conviction.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Shamanic Nietzsche</cite></footer> 
> [How do you make yourself a Nazi?] 4) Foster nostalgia for what is maximally bovine, inflexible, and stagnant: a line of racially pure peasants digging the same patch of earth for eternity. 5) Above all, resent everything impetuous and irresponsible, insist upon unrelenting vigilance, crush sexuality under its reproductive function, rigidly enforce the domestication of women, distrust art, classicize cities to eliminate the disorder of uncontrolled flows, and persecute all minorities exhibiting a nomadic tendency.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Making It with Death</cite></footer> 
> Nazism can turn you into a stiff before the messy passage into death.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Making It with Death</cite></footer> 
> thank you for flying with transnational commodification
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> we shall shortly be arriving in mayhem
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> if there is anybody on board who can impersonate a pilot
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> it would be of comfort to the other passengers<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Circuitries</cite></footer> 
> Freud&#8217;s organism is a little security system, a miniaturized city-state political corpuscle, a micropod, relatively secure against external assault, but vulnerable to insurgency.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Machinic Desire</cite></footer> 
> It makes no more sense to try to rescue the economy from capital by demarketization than it does to liberate the proletarian from false consciousness by decortication.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Machinic Desire</cite></footer> 
> Sense reaches absolute zero.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Meat</cite></footer> 
> Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that always screw up viciously.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Meltdown</cite></footer> 
> As sino-pacific boom and automatized global economic integration crashes the neocolonial world system, the metropolis is forces to re-endogenize its crisis. Hyper-fluid capital deterritorializing to the planetary level divests the first world of geographic privilege; resulting in Euro-American neo-mercantilist panic reactions, welfare state deterioration, cancerizing enclaves of domestic underdevelopment, political collapse, and the release of cultural toxins that speed-up the process of disintegration in a vicious circle.<footer>Land, 
> 
> <cite class="article">Meltdown</cite></footer>