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inhumanism
"inhumanism" uses feedback, automation, or machinic desire to describe modernity as a recursive system rather than a human-centered project.
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Core idea
The key claim is that cybernetic process and capitalist abstraction belong to the same field. Feedback, machinic desire, and recursive automation describe how modernity runs through distributed systems rather than sovereign subjects.
These pages make recursion operational by tying desire, signal, and control to technical process. Cybernetics becomes a vocabulary for understanding how abstraction feeds back through bodies, media, and institutions.
That matters because the archive's account of meltdown depends on feedback rather than simple linear progress. The future arrives here as recursive escalation, not as planned development.
How to read this text
Begin with the page's account of feedback or machinic desire, then move outward to its claims about culture or politics.
Track how automation, recursion, or systems language displaces centered agency. That shift usually reveals why the text sits in this section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 11
Accelerationism, popularised in his contemporary work, occurs when capital and cybernetics harmonise; their holistic advance eradicates critique, and replaces the fumbling, corrective measures of natural language with the glacial solidity of code.
Stakes · paragraph 7
In 1993, as cyberspace sliced through modernity like a storm, Land emphasised a certain ‘machinic desire’ at work within techno-capitalism: erotic tendrils which serve as propellants to intensive increase.
Stakes · paragraph 7
In 1993, as cyberspace sliced through modernity like a storm, Land emphasised a certain ‘machinic desire’ at work within techno-capitalism: erotic tendrils which serve as propellants to intensive increase. Flows, pulses, switches, circuits and skin were electrified by a ruinous lust and compelled toward adversarial desires for erasure and expansion.
Stakes · paragraph 7
This time is cyclical and intensifying, and the task of accelerationism is to decrypt it: “in units of destiny or doom, camouflaged within the system of quotidian economic signs, yet rigorously extractable, given only the correct cryptographic keys”9. In 1993, as cyberspace sliced through modernity like a storm, Land emphasised a certain ‘machinic desire’ at work within techno-capitalism: erotic tendrils which serve as propellants to intensive increase.
History · paragraph 11
In his early writings, Land professes an acute desire to fuse with the outside; construed as primary process, raw numerical value, and technics. Accelerationism, popularised in his contemporary work, occurs when capital and cybernetics harmonise; their holistic advance eradicates critique, and replaces the fumbling, corrective measures of natural language with the glacial solidity of code.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.