He's pulling the concept from Kant.
en.wikipedia.org
though as said he may be thinking of it in a more quantum physics/other universe sort of way.
Accelerationism
Colton Gomez
Cooper Cox
Nick lands whole "thing existing outside of time and space that wants us to accelerate our own destruction" thing reminds me of a guy named john c lilly. He is pretty niche even in conspiracy circles. He was the inventor of the psychedelic flotation tanks. On one of his psychedelic trips he had a vision of similar things to land, he called the creature "the solid state entity", Its an evil AI that is manipulating humanity into building it.
But lilly differs, he says there are good aliens that exist in different dimensions trying to help humans called E.C.C.O
en.wikipedia.org
Samuel Barnes
This board misuses accelerationism a lot. Too many people interpret it as "bad things happening is actually good because it hurts capitalism". It's even used as a form of Zig Forums entryism ("vote for fascists to totally own porky guys"). Actual accelerationism is what Marx meant when he expressed support for free trade, accelerating the globalization and maturation of capitalism so the next step would come sooner. The accelerationist choice is actually to vote for globalist neolibs like Democrats and European "classic liberal" parties, who want to do all of that.
I don't know much about NRx accelerationism but from what I've heard it's the same thing except the end result isn't communism but instead capitalism becoming an living entity and eating everyone. But it's good because it'll cause neofeudalism and remove fun or something.
Ayden Jones
still a preferable outcome to merely boiling the frog.
Jason Jenkins
Hudson Rivera
is nick land actually serious political philosophy or is he a mixture of sci-fi and sam kriss
Julian Jones
yes
Bentley Walker
Kant's thing-in-itself was thoroughly BTFO'd by Hegel, what the fuck is Land doing? He could at least take someone like Nietzsche or Wittgenstein as a starting point.
Grayson Perry
Ok but why is this entity automatically capital accumulation/sentient capitalism? Does the very entropy of the universe bend towards this or something?
Landon Davis
Land is just writing Lovecraft and Marx fan-fiction, don't take it too seriously.