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Land - China, Cryptocurrency and the World Order (WdW Review) (2014)
A review-format page that ties China, cryptocurrency, and geopolitical order to later Land's broader concern with protocol and teleoplexic coordination.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they give later Land's abstractions a geopolitical scene. World order, trade, and protocol are treated as operational questions through which intelligence and coordination are redistributed across the planet.
Geopolitical prose works here by making systems and territory communicate. China, intellectual property, and cryptocurrency are not topical ornaments but carriers for later-Land questions about protocol, scale, and post-liberal organization.
That matters because the later-Land archive is often read too narrowly through neoreaction alone. These pages keep visible the infrastructural and world-order dimension of the post-Warwick phase.
How to read this text
Read for how the page recasts geopolitical conflict as a problem of protocol, scale, or coordination rather than ordinary statecraft.
Watch where money, trade, or intellectual property become levers for thinking systemic order. That is where the later-Land line becomes most concrete.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 10
China, Crypto‐Currency, and the World Order, Part 3 Clone Wars September 2014 By Nick Land Two years ago, stories of fake tungsten‐filled gold coins and bars began to spread. Between the shortage of physical gold and the increase in smuggling, it appears that gold fraud is back on the rise.
Definition · paragraph 3
Of the indispensable building blocks constructing the near future, China and the Internet have special prominence. There are innumerable places where China meets the Web, beginning with the sprawling, multidimensional, and explosively growing Chinese Internet itself. Bitcoin is a recent and still relatively slender thread in the tapestry of global change, but by tugging at it, some central features of the emerging world can be pulled into focus.
Definition · paragraph 10
Between the shortage of physical gold and the increase in smuggling, it appears that gold fraud is back on the rise. A mainland China businessman discovered that almost a thousand kilograms of gold bars, worth HK$270 million, that he bought in Ghana have been swapped for the non‐precious metal bars.
History · paragraph 6
China, Crypto‐Currency, and the World Order, Part 2 Digital Denominations June 2014 By Nick Land Undercover photograph of BTC Guild, the largest Bitcoin Mining Pool, and one of the oldest remaining Bitcoin pools (credit: Jakub Szypulka CC‐BY) Inside one of the warehouses on Iceland are mining rigs by Cointerra, KnCMiner and recently arrived spondoolies‐tech.
History · paragraph 1
China, Crypto‐Currency, and the World Order Part 1: Tribute and Tribulations May 2014 By Nick Land Photo: unknown.
Appears in sections
Nick Land After Warwick Primary section
Shanghai, Xenosystems, later reactionary turns, and the post-Warwick afterlife of Land's public writing.