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nick-land-making-it-with-death-remarks-on-thanatos-and-desiringproduction
"nick-land-making-it-with-death-remarks-on-thanatos-and-desiringproduction" routes capital through finance, infrastructure, or modernity-writing to show how abstract systems rewrite historical time.
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Core idea
These texts describe modernity as a field governed by capitalized abstraction, infrastructural redesign, and the pressures of finance. Historical time becomes inseparable from technical and monetary process.
They work by connecting money, architecture, infrastructure, and world-order narratives to a broader picture of runaway modernization. Finance is treated as a driver of temporal and social reformatting.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's most concrete routes into abstraction. Capital becomes visible here through circuits of money, urban form, and historical reorganization.
How to read this text
Read for the material carriers of abstraction first: finance, architecture, protocol, or infrastructure. Those details keep the page from becoming a loose metaphor of speed.
Watch how the text narrates historical time under pressure from capitalized systems. That is where the section's larger stakes come into view.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
I, January 1993 MAKING IT WITH DEATH: REMARKS ON THANATOS AND DESIRING-PRODUCTION NICK LAND If Deleuze is to be salvaged from the inane liberal neo-Kantianism that counts as Philosophy in France today it is necessary to re-assemble and deepen his genealogy.
Definition · paragraph 1
I, January 1993 MAKING IT WITH DEATH: REMARKS ON THANATOS AND DESIRING-PRODUCTION NICK LAND If Deleuze is to be salvaged from the inane liberal neo-Kantianism that counts as Philosophy in France today it is necessary to re-assemble and deepen his genealogy. The Pseudo-Nietzscheanism of the late 1960's reaction against Hegel is scarcely a context commensurate with a thinker of major importance, and the same could be said of his jousting with structuralized psychoanalysis.
Definition · paragraph 3
Only by an intensification of neurotic attachments does it mask the eruption of madness in its infrastructure, but with every passing year such attachments become more desperate, cynical, fragile. All of which is to raise the issue of the notorious " death of capitalism", which has been predominantly treated as a matter of either dread or hope, scepticism or belief.
Definition · paragraph 11
Death is too simple, too fluid, too disdainful of races and fatherlands to have anything much to do with the Nazis. Ressentiment was something they knew about, as was the aspiration to a mythic sacrifice, a Gotterdammerung that would inscribe them in the history books, but these things never stretch to dissolution-desire.
Definition · paragraph 11
Death is too simple, too fluid, too disdainful of races and fatherlands to have anything much to do with the Nazis. Ressentiment was something they knew about, as was the aspiration to a mythic sacrifice, a Gotterdammerung that would inscribe them in the history books, but these things never stretch to dissolution-desire. Afrer all, lose control and you might end up fucking with a Jew, becoming effeminate, or creating something degenerate like a work of art.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.