4 ms·
Man, I have a hard enough time reading Deleuze, but Nick Land can be totally incomprehensible. At times it seems he takes schizoanalysis a bit too literally - I
by beaconstudios 5y ago
Man, I have a hard enough time reading Deleuze, but Nick Land can be totally incomprehensible. At times it seems he takes schizoanalysis a bit too literally - I expect any philosopher I read to have made up at least a dozen words or phrases by the end of a work, but with Land every sentence contains a new concept that remains totally undefined.
And then there's "cooking lobsters with jake and dinos" from fanged noumena.
My impression is that rather than decoding his works rationally, you're supposed to kind of soak in the vibe and the high-level concepts, but I don't know if that's due my incomprehension or if it's the intended way to read him.
- Barrin92 5y agoNo I think that's fair. This particular one I think was originally a spoken word performance over jungle music or something and it's more like cyberpunk fiction than a philosophical text. And when you get to his later work and he goes into numerology it gets really weird. It takes a while to get used to but there's some truly insightful stuff in his earlier, more coherent work in particular. And he had an underrated influence on a lot of British cultural figures all across the spectrum.