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I have a research project on Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical. It contains (almost) all primary sources for his thesis (182 as of t

I have a research project on Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical. It contains (almost) all primary sources for his thesis (182 as of this writing). https://retrochronic.com/ https://retrochronic.com/

hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
You threw this elsewhere but I want to reiterate here, this is a really impressive work! I'm glad someone is out here piecing together all the shards of the vase like this.
- gom_jabbar 2y ago
  Thanks so much! This project ended up being far more involved than I expected, given how scattered and arcane Land's work is. It's always nice to get some appreciation!
balamatom 2y ago
The `noproc` option kicked me out of HN before I could respond, so I've been waiting 3 hours to say - this is fantastic stuff. Impeccable research and presentation! It's just... beautiful. Perhaps tangential, but is that even based on some existing package for such publications, or is it an entirely custom frontend? I'll be happy to know more about how this project came to be, from both the technical and the academic perspective.
- gom_jabbar 2y ago
  Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it! The frontend is built with Svelte (still on version 4) and SvelteKit. The project does not use any pre-existing package for publishing. The CSS is completely custom. The font is a custom build of Iosevka [0], which uses a diamond-shaped "0" to emphasize the centrality of zero in Land's work (e.g. Zero-Centric History [1]). The project itself came about after a close friend sent me a picture of a Land book he had found at a library. I had read Land years ago - he was one of the reasons I got into coding - and it just struck me that I had never built anything related to his work. I was always fascinated by his capitalism = AI thesis, so I just dove back into his work and started building. [0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka [1] https://retrochronic.com/#zero-centric-history https://retrochronic.com/#zero-centric-history

hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago

You threw this elsewhere but I want to reiterate here, this is a really impressive work! I'm glad someone is out here piecing together all the shards of the vase like this.

gom_jabbar 2y ago
Thanks so much! This project ended up being far more involved than I expected, given how scattered and arcane Land's work is. It's always nice to get some appreciation!

balamatom 2y ago

The `noproc` option kicked me out of HN before I could respond, so I've been waiting 3 hours to say - this is fantastic stuff. Impeccable research and presentation! It's just... beautiful. Perhaps tangential, but is that even based on some existing package for such publications, or is it an entirely custom frontend? I'll be happy to know more about how this project came to be, from both the technical and the academic perspective.

gom_jabbar 2y ago
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it! The frontend is built with Svelte (still on version 4) and SvelteKit. The project does not use any pre-existing package for publishing. The CSS is completely custom. The font is a custom build of Iosevka [0], which uses a diamond-shaped "0" to emphasize the centrality of zero in Land's work (e.g. Zero-Centric History [1]). The project itself came about after a close friend sent me a picture of a Land book he had found at a library. I had read Land years ago - he was one of the reasons I got into coding - and it just struck me that I had never built anything related to his work. I was always fascinated by his capitalism = AI thesis, so I just dove back into his work and started building. [0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka [1] https://retrochronic.com/#zero-centric-history https://retrochronic.com/#zero-centric-history