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Nick Land Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“What is new to modernity is a rate of the obsolescence of truth.”
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Tagged: Modernity, Fluid Knowledge
“If human wisdom has little or no value, where do the dogmatic assertions about God and his wisdom stem from? Why should they be trusted?”
— Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
Tagged: Human Arrogance, The Source of Knowledge, Human Knowledge, Epistemology
“Where formalist AI is incremental and progressive, caged in the pre-specified data-bases and processing routines of expert systems, connectionist or antiformalist AI is explosive and opportunistic.”
— Nick Land, Nick Land – Meltdown
Tagged: Limits of Knowledge Engineering, Emerging AI
“There is no answer. Merely the blank violence of the sun.”
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Tagged: Matt. 27:46-49, Groundless Ground, No Answer From The World, Nihilism
“Collapse into now. Time-zero.”
— Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
Tagged: Escape Time, The Present, Chronos, Living In The Now, Time
“Man is something for it to overcome: a problem, drag.”
— Nick Land, Nick Land – Meltdown
Tagged: Hating The Humans, Transhumansim, Beyond the Human, Human As A Weight
“Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcendental is to be 'free' of reality. This is surely the most elegant euphemism in the history of Western philosophy.”
— Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
Tagged: Philosophy, Kant's Christian Fleeing
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