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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 through contemporary thought. For Land, the term…
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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 failure and the only honest engagement with…
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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 describes modernity’s fundamental structure – a system…
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