Nick Land?

>>8740704
Very

t. Definitely not Nick Land

>>8740704
>Is he a good read?
You need to check. First a question:
>Does it conform to your beliefs?
If yes, the verbose language won't bother you. If no, the verbose language will bother you.
Alternative question:
>Do you think verbose and cryptic language sounds highly intelligent?
If yes, you would find it a good read, but might still disagree with the message (which in turn could lead to you thinking it was a bad read however).

Seriously, I hold the belief that someone could have the most genius revelations while writing in indecipherable langauge, but the likelihood that is unnecessary and the message could be brought in much less words and much simpler words, is so incredibly high that I won't bother with it since I want to read many more books.

Such language does seem to have some cultish effects on a small but fanatic group of readers, think Nick Land, think Derida and so forth.

>>8740774
>Such language does seem to have some cultish effects on a small but fanatic group of readers, think Nick Land, think Derida and so forth.

Can you expand on this?

>>8740780
>Can you expand on this?
I wish I could. It isn't even my own idea, I got it from Nassim Taleb. Which is kind of funny, because Taleb might not use in cryptic language, he most certainly knows how to establish his own cult following.

He even acknowledged it, pointing to Ayn Rand. Taleb just uses neologism and creates enemies, while people like Nick Land, Lacan, Derrida, Peter van Sloterdijk use other methods.

I haven't read enough psychology and anthropology to give you the full expansion, but I would say the language is used as a kind of initiation rite. You have to make effort to "get it".
(Though in my opinion there is not that much to get, or at least not as profound as it seems).

That's my speculation, but it isn't verified by any evidence, so it remains just that: speculation.

memes aside he's the final redpill (I hate this term but it's useful here)
>Land confuses me, and more importantly (disastrously?) Land confuses me about me. Put in a way that is not meaningless word garbage, Land forces me to question the meanings and coherences that underpin my thinking. When I see what Land advocates for, the methods he supports, and the cult following he has developed, I want to hate him. I want to be able to pick his arguments apart and dismiss his conclusions and summarily banish him to the world of pink haired televangelists and Big Oil executives, but... I can’t...
>Indescribable. Infuriating, challenging, confounding, disgusting, and mind-blowing all at once. Given his neo-reactionary credentials, I want to dislike Land and his writing; more specifically I want to write him off as an intelligent but horribly misguided wingnut. But there is something so excessively brilliant, so unhesitatingly heretical on display here that it becomes impossible to turn away; impossible to forget. This collection and his book on Bataille outright demand multiple readings, if only just to revel in the kinetiscism of the language deployed, which ranges from insightful readings of Kant to 'mad black Deluzianism' to raving prose poetry, many times within a single piece.
the second review was actually changed recently because the guy found out nicky has no-no beliefs about race

>>8740774

>what are the pleasures of the text
>what is écriture
>what is schizologic of signification

positivist brainlets need not apply

He's fun, and pretty edifying too. I feel like his writings are just as literary as philosophical. His cryptic language plays into this; he seems to write from the perspective of a lovecraftian cult guru. I think it also plays into his elitist worldview; only those who make the effort deserve to understand it and whatnot. Some of his essays are so soaked in deleuzean jargon that I can't make heads or tails it, but his blog posts are generally much more comprehensible.

>>8740856
You just seem to try and justify what you are reading. And you create a false dichotomy to reinforce that.
Well you got yourself caught. What is the next step of your masterplan?