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Study Notes: Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger’s 1953 Trakl Interpretation
Study Notes: Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger’s 1953 Trakl Interpretation I. FAILURE AS METHOD The question of failure inhabits Land’s text from its opening lines. What would it mean for Heidegger to “succeed” in his interpretation of Trakl? Such success would presuppose a model of reading as mastery—the…
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The death of sound philosophy
Kant’s Unacknowledged Discovery: Reason’s Incompatibility with Reality Land’s opening assertion establishes the central paradox driving the chapter: “Kant’s great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge.” This formulation positions the Kantian project as a philosophical catastrophe whose implications continue to reverberate…
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Study Notes: Nick Land’s Preface to “Thirst for Annihilation”
Zero-Degree Writing: The Impossibility of Commentary “There is not a single sentence which is other than a gratuitousness and a confusion; a cry at least half lamed and smothered in irony.” Land’s preface launches an assault against the very possibility of academic commentary, positioning itself as simultaneously a…
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Study Notes: 1914: One or Several Wolves?
Study Notes: Deleuze and Guattari’s “1914: One or Several Wolves?” The Wolf-Man’s Dream: Multiplicity Against Oedipalization Deleuze and Guattari begin their critique by examining Freud’s famous case study of the Wolf-Man, particularly his dream of wolves sitting in a tree. This dream becomes a battleground for conflicting interpretive…
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Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest
Study Notes: Nick Land’s “Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest: A Polemical Introduction to the Configuration of Philosophy and Modernity” Core Thesis: Inhibited Synthesis and Modernity The central concept in Land’s essay is “inhibited synthesis,” which connects Kantian philosophy, capitalist economics, and patriarchal kinship systems. This concept…
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Research Diary – Entry I
Flow of Agency I was working on an idea inspired by the Japanese composer Yasunao Tone, who is known for his work with damaged CDs, deliberately scratching and altering them to produce unpredictable digital glitches. Instead of physically modifying a medium, I attempted a digital equivalent—randomly changing the…
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