The philosophy of Land and the idea of God: The Cathedral of physicalism, A protestant materialism
Originally Published: February 03, 2025
The philosophy of Land and the idea of God
The nirÄ«ÅvaravÄdi Ädi-accelerationists no doubt consider our usage of the word āGodā and countless references to ancient myths and texts a serious breach of the philosophy and a perversion of its ideas. Though we are not interested in soothing their fears, the objections they will raise must nevertheless be wrestled with, as Landian Accelerationism portrays itself a purely materialist philosophical system, which, although not often talked about at present, is properly referred to as ālibidinal materialismā. Thus, we must descend into the āsublime basementā of Landās philosophy before we may return once more to the heady poetics of Meltdown. His system of thought is most comprehensively laid out in the opus The Thirst for Annihilation (Land, 1992b), which makes it clear that his philosophy follows in the wake of the Nietzschean ādeath of Godā, something he explicitly states when he assembles a theoretical machine linking Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, and, most importantly, Bataille to himself. As Mackay and Brassier put it in the āEditorsā Introductionā of Fanged Noumena (Land, 2012): āLand allied himself to a line of renegade thinkers – Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille – who mocked and disparaged academicism and wielded philosophy as an implement for exacerbating enigma, disrupting orthodoxy, and transforming existenceā (p. 2-3). Continue reading Meltdown BhÄį¹£ya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.3)