If you’re like us then you’re wondering what the fuck a “numogram” is. How do D&D and Sci-Fi sounding concepts have anything to do with theory, especially a theory of Capital? To answer these and a million other questions that have plagued anyone who ever came across some CCRU jargon, Michael Downs is teaching a crash course on Nick Land. Is Land the worst person ever? Is he even a human being? We’ll bracket such questions for now and focus on one of the most fun and terrifying theorists of all time.
These are the topics for each of the four weeks:
Essential background: Kant (transcendental aestethic), Bataille (death), Deleuze & Guattari (desiring-production, capitalism), Kurzweil (singularity), Wiener (cybernetics), Lovecraft (the Entity), Burroughs (lemurs)
Essential Mature Land: (1993-2003) Accelerationism, Meltdown, Fanged Noumena, Human Security System, AOE (Architectonic Order of the Eschaton) vs. Axsys (Techno-Capital Singulairity), hyperstition
Post-CCRU Land: (2003-2023) Dark Enlightenment, the Cathedral, theory of time (templexity, teleoplexy), megacities (Shanghai), Chinese tour guides, bitcoin, Twitter
Occult shit: Numogram, time-traveling lemurs, A-death, Pandamonium Matrix, subdecadence, Qabbala, numeracy
You can either sign up for one of the 4 tiers HERE, or you can sign up as a monthly subscriber to Theory Underground, which will grant you access to this course as well as others depending on which subscription tier you sign up for. In order to sign up as a TU subscriber you have to download the Theory Underground APP from either the Apple or Google Play stores, then just follow the directions!
