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Somebody Wants to Take Down Nick Land - Jacobite
"Somebody Wants to Take Down Nick Land - Jacobite" belongs to the early/middle Land archive where philosophy, theory-fiction, and inhuman modernity are still tightly entangled with the Warwick scene.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because it belongs to the phase of Land most tightly bound to Warwick, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, and the emergence of the CCRU's conceptual atmosphere. Later blog-era politics are not yet the main organizing frame.
These texts work through philosophical compression, polemical scene-writing, and theory-fictional intensity. Abstraction, annihilation, and anti-human thought are made to operate through form as much as doctrine.
That matters because early Land is central to several later archive problems - accelerationism, numogrammatics, cybernetics - but is never reducible to any one of them. The section keeps this phase historically and conceptually distinct.
How to read this text
Read for the problem that organizes the page - nihilism, abstraction, philosophy-fiction, or inhumanism - before trying to relate it to later public myths about Land.
Keep the page beside the reception and interview materials. The strongest reading path is primary text and later framing in sequence, not isolation.
Representative extracts
History · paragraph 4
Famed for his drug-fuelled exploits at Warwick in the 90s and for a death-driven book on Bataille, and then for his supposedly straightforward turn to the right, there is perhaps nothing newly shocking in his name. In terms of the controversy in early 2017—let’s call it “the Nick Land affair” just to see what happens —an exact moment of inception might at least be given, even if the content fails to be new.
History · paragraph 6
Untermesh’s mechanism, at no point during the “trial” of Nick Land in early 2017 did close reading actually take place. The case against Land would have been a function of lack of reading and was itself about lack of reading. Because O.D.
History · paragraph 2
Somebody Wants to Take Down Nick Land – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517110021mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2018/05/14/somebody-wants-to-take-down-nick-land/[3/26/2023 11:05:07 AM] Photograph by Sam Weinstein Do you know that entanglement is given in the raciality of the concept, as such? —Fred Moten Stop thinking about things for a long time without saying what you think —Kanye West Back to early 2017 again, then, whether you like it or not.
History · paragraph 11
Somebody Wants to Take Down Nick Land – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517110021mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2018/05/14/somebody-wants-to-take-down-nick-land/[3/26/2023 11:05:07 AM] Previous Article THE AMERICAN QUESTION Next Article THE AENEID FOR INCELS TAGS JONTY TIPLADY NEOREACTION NICK LAND PETER BRIMELOW feeding).
History · paragraph 3
Somebody Wants to Take Down Nick Land – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517110021mp_/https://jacobitemag.com/2018/05/14/somebody-wants-to-take-down-nick-land/[3/26/2023 11:05:07 AM] stopped happening, which is to say because they were never fully read at the time (and so could never fully happen), we are already back there. We never left. We are already and forever 2017.1.
Appears in sections
Nick Land Before the Break Primary section
Early philosophy, Warwick-era writing, and the phase of Land most central to the CCRU's emergence.