Nick Land – Machinic Desire (1993)

Published in Textual Practice, 7.3 (1993). Collected in Fanged Noumena (2011).

'Under the influence of Abrahamic theism the subtle cybernetics of Ananke are replaced by an idiot mechanism, sustaining a securocrat confidence in the gross percep­ tibility of trauma. The traumatic incursion of thanatotic xenopulsions is conceived in terms of railway accidents and shell-shock, as if the inorganic was entirely lacking in intelligence or insurgent cunning, and was related to the organic by simple regression.' [???]