The philosopher Nick Land has been widely described as “fascist”, “neofascist” or “alt-right”, all essentially inaccurate or uninteresting labels. Those who bother with fine distinction would call …| Cybertrop(h)ic
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on human freedom. The behaviour of ordinary citizens in liberal democracies has been restricted to an extent not seen since World Wa…| Cybertrop(h)ic
“I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china” —Oscar Wilde At the same time Friedrich Nietzsche was conducting his famous “transvaluation of all values”, a similar upending of…| Cybertrop(h)ic
It is bizarre that Friedrich Hayek’s relationship to cybernetics is almost never discussed. He not only drew explicitly on cybernetic models and concepts, but was also actively involved in the cybe…| Cybertrop(h)ic
How did accelerationism become a boy’s club? This isn’t to say that the accelerosphere consists only of men; in fact it’s always been jampacked with women, especially trans-women. But when you look…| Cybertrop(h)ic
Weirdness, paradoxically, is getting normalised. Following on from a widespread renewed interest in psychedelia that exploded a few years ago, we’ve seen the online growth of chaos magic and tulpam…| Cybertrop(h)ic
Much has been made of the opposition between Reza Negarestani and Nick Land, between so-called neo-rationalism and libidinal materialism. For many however, the debate may come across as quite abstr…| Cybertrop(h)ic
As discussed in a previous piece of mine on post-liberalism, I agree with the widespread and growing understanding that liberalism (and by extension liberal humanism) has failed. However, unlike ma…| Cybertrop(h)ic
Matt Colquhoun (AKA @xenogothic) published a new piece on unconditional accelerationism and anti-praxis that elicited a…mixed reaction from the Twitter accelerosphere, including some less tha…| Cybertrop(h)ic
“I have become time, the destroyer of worlds” —Hindu god Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita “In philosophical terms, the deep problem of acceleration is transcendental. It describes an absolute ho…| Cybertrop(h)ic
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a film that is fundamentally about the desire to escape. Today’s discursive landscape is littered with ideologies that dream of finding an exit from “the System”, t…| Cybertrop(h)ic