technocapitalcore (n.) — an aesthetic that celebrates the efficiency, scale, and feedback of markets × machines in complex systems as the dominant filter shaping what persists in reality; commonly associated with Nick Land.
“Entropy will be dissipated, idiocy will be punished, the weak will die. If the regime refuses to bow to this Law, the wolves will enforce it. Social Darwinism is not a choice societies get to make, but a system of real consequences that envelops them. … When asked ‘which types of regimes do you believe in?’ the [sole] appropriate response is ‘those compatible with reality.’”
— Nick Land, “Meta-Neocameralism” (2014).
Everything of value has been built in Hell… Specifically, it is solely by way of the relentless, brutal culling of populations that any complex or adaptive traits have been sieved — with torturous inefficiency — from the chaos of natural existence. All health, beauty, intelligence, and social grace has been teased from a vast butcher’s yard of unbounded carnage, requiring incalculable eons of massacre to draw forth even the subtlest of advantages. This is not only a matter of bloody grinding mills of selection, either, but also of the innumerable mutational abominations thrown up by the madness of chance, as it pursues its directionless path to some negligible preservable trait, and then — still further — of the unavowable horrors that fitness (or sheer survival) itself predominantly entails. We are a miniscule sample of agonized matter, comprising genetic survival monsters, fished from a cosmic ocean of vile mutants, by a pitiless killing machine of infinite appetite… Crucially, any attempt to escape this fatality — or, more realistically, any mere accidental and temporal reprieve from it — leads inexorably to the undoing of its work. Malthusian relaxation is the whole of mercy, and it is the greatest engine of destruction our universe is able to bring about. To the precise extent that we are spared, even for a moment, we degenerate — and this Iron Law applies to every dimension of scale of existence: phlogenetic and ontogenetic, individual, social, and institutional, genomic, cellular, organic, and cultural. There is no machinery extant, or even rigorously imaginable, that can sustain a single iota of attained value outside the forges of Hell.
— Nick Land, “Hell-Baked” (2015).
This goes hard
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