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Concepts
These pages translate archive vocabulary into clearer research language while still pointing back to the records where the terms actually appear.
Glossary-style concept pages for terms that new visitors usually need defined before they can read the archive well.
These entries are staged as a shelf rather than a neutral card dump: enough spacing to browse quickly, enough hierarchy to keep each family distinct.
14 concepts · all visible
A CCRU concept for fictions, signs, and narratives that help bring about the realities they name through circulation, repetition, and uptake.
A later umbrella term that gathers together incompatible arguments about capitalism, technological change, abstraction, and political strategy.
A diagrammatic schema that condenses CCRU interests in numeracy, ritual patterning, and nonlinear mapping.
A CCRU phrase for temporal conflict in which extinct, spectral, or unrealized branches of history keep acting on the present.
Nick Land's later term for capital read as a recursive intelligence-amplifier whose feedback dynamics are formally goal-directed but supply no goal of their own.
The archive's signature mode of writing in which narrative, persona, diagram, and citation are recruited together because each does conceptual work the others cannot.
The archive's recurring fusion of digital and machinic infrastructure with gothic affect, used as a working argument that horror conventions supply conceptual equipment for nonhuman agency.
Mark Fisher's blog (2003–2013) and, by extension, a method for short-form public theory that became the principal channel through which CCRU vocabulary reached a general readership.
Derrida's term for a present haunted by lost futures rather than ordinary pasts, reworked by Mark Fisher into a periodising diagnosis of early twenty-first-century culture.
An internet political movement that emerged in 2022 around AI and energy policy and positions itself as a successor to Land's later accelerationism.
The strand emerging from Williams and Srnicek's 2013 manifesto, arguing that capital's Promethean machinery can be reclaimed and re-aimed against capital's ends.
The strand emerging from Land's post-2010 writing — the Dark Enlightenment essays, the Outsideness blog, and the teleoplexy material — that treats capital and technology as escaping ordinary political address.
A figure Deleuze and Guattari developed across Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus that the CCRU recruited for arguments about machinic desire and distributed agency.
Nick Land's structural argument that markets, prices, contractual coordination, and abstraction already compose a working artificial intelligence rather than awaiting one.