> Am 02.03.2018 um 16:49 schrieb Callum Copley <callum.cop...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, first replying via nettime, hope this works. > > I too have found some of his thinking very interesting at times but upon > learning the extent of his political views I refuse to engage with his work > > See below: > > "Nick Land advocates for racially based absolutist micro-states, where > unregulated capitalism combines with genetic separation between global elites > and the ‘refuse’ (his term) of the rest. It’s a eugenic philosophy of > ‘hyper-racism’, as he describes it on the racist blog Alternative Right, or > ‘Human Biodiversity’ (HBD). Here, class dominance and inequality are mapped > onto, explained, and justified by tendencies for the elite to mate with each > other and spawn a new species with an expanding IQ. Yes, this ‘hyper-racism’ > is that daft – and would be laughed off as the fantasy of a neoliberal Dr > Strangelove if it didn’t have leverage in this miserable climate of the > ascendant far right. Regarding the other side, the domain of the ‘refuse’, > Land uses euphemism to stand in for the white nationalist notion of a coming > ‘white genocide’: ‘demographic engineering as an explicit policy objective’, > ‘steady progress of population replacement’, is the racial threat he > describes on the bleak webpages of The Daily Caller. " > > https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/why-is-nick-land-still-embraced-by-segments-of-the-british-art-and-theory-scenes/6329 > > <https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/why-is-nick-land-still-embraced-by-segments-of-the-british-art-and-theory-scenes/6329>
Hi Callum, I was in no way speaking of Nick Land, just D/G. ...
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