Philosopher
1 article with this philosopher.
The story of the universe is not a human one. We’ve been hijacked by capitalism, which will be the end of us all.
Hey, if that’s the case, why not accelerate things? Let’s get on with the apocalypse already. Better do some amphetamines while we wait.
Land is Hootch, and Hootch is crazy
He’s the guy who wrote that great stackoverflow answer on regexp HTML parsing.
You thought that was clever and ironic, until you talked to him and learned he actually believes in chaos demons and attempts to summon them to bring the end of humanity.
In this piece we'll take a walk on edge of rationality itself with one of the least stable philosophers from the last 50 years - Nick Land.
We'll explore his concept of fanged noumenon outside the boundary of rationality, and how it can vindicate the notion and value of exploratory testing. Oh, and there will be rats.
