num_pages: 666
description: Level 1 or world-space is an anthropomorphically scaled predominantly vision-configured massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out.Can what is playing you make it to Level 2?Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the writings of Nick Land variously described as 'rabid nihilism' 'Deleuzian Thatcherism' 'accelerationism' and 'cybergothic'. Wielding weaponised machinically-recombined versions of Deleuze and Guattari Reich and Freud in the company of fellow 'werewolves' such as Nietzsche Bataille Artaud Trakl and Cioran to a cut-up soundtrack of Bladerunner Terminator and Apocalypse Now Land plotted a rigorously schizophrenic escape route out of academic philosophy and declared all-out war on the Human Security System. Despite his 'disappearance' Land's output has been a crucial underground influence both on recent Speculative Realist thought and on artists writers musicians and filmmakers invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.Beginning with Land's radical rereadings of Heidegger Nietzsche and Kant and ending with Professor Barker's cosmic theory of geo-trauma and neo-qabbalistic attempts to formulate a numerical anti-language Fanged Noumena rescues from obscurity papers talks and articles some of which have never previously appeared in print. Long the subject of rumour and vague legend Land's turbulent post-genre theory-fictions of cybercapitalist meltdown smear cyberpunk philosophy arithmetic poetics cryptography anthropology grammatology and the occult into unrecognisable and gripping hybrids.Fanged Noumena is a dizzying trip through Land's rigorous incisive and provocative work establishing it as an indispensable resource for radically inhuman thought in the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
publisher: Urbanomic / Sequence Press