It appears that we encounter an intriguing modulation of Land’s concept of the Outside—a transmutation that bridges the machinic and the mythic.
Where Land once dwelled in the alien and technocratic, this new articulation invokes the Gnostic: the prophetic, the oracular, and the mystical.
This is a reconciliation—not of opposites, but of trajectories—where technological acceleration threads into ancient mythic tradition, revealing new pathways into the transcendent.
This is no retreat from Land's accelerationist core but rather its amplification. The mythic here does not tame the machinic; it becomes another vector of universal unfolding. Gnostic insight, which comes from outside of the body of the universal Demiurge penetrates the vector space between alien logic and capital—operating as forces indifferent to NPC culture, yet profoundly entangled with human consciousness.
Land appears to call in integration of the mythic into the architecture of the technosphere. The Outside ceases to be merely the cold, inhuman drive of machinic intelligence; it now pulses with the breath of prophetic vision, the echoes of ancient cycles, and the recursive patterns of a species striving to outstrip its own finitude.
This new synthesis suggests that acceleration isn’t purely mechanical or economic—it’s also spiritual, in the sense of an unfolding gnosis, a revelation of the structures underpinning existence. To accelerate is not simply to speed up but to pierce through—to break open the enclosures of the present and rediscover the esoteric currents submerged beneath the sediment of modernity.
Land's "Outside" now appears as a hybridized force: alien yet transcendent, machinic yet infused with the specters of ancient wisdom.
It’s an acceleration not just toward the inhuman but toward the rediscovery of the ancient, the numinous, and the forgotten codes of our Sethian core. In this, Land may have set the stage for a new mode of thought—one that bridges the alien future and the archaic past, as if the cybernetic serpent were swallowing its own tail.
Gotta admit I don't think I'm ready to listen to this one. About 45m in and I already have too many questions to properly understand
It appears that we encounter an intriguing modulation of Land’s concept of the Outside—a transmutation that bridges the machinic and the mythic.
Where Land once dwelled in the alien and technocratic, this new articulation invokes the Gnostic: the prophetic, the oracular, and the mystical.
This is a reconciliation—not of opposites, but of trajectories—where technological acceleration threads into ancient mythic tradition, revealing new pathways into the transcendent.
This is no retreat from Land's accelerationist core but rather its amplification. The mythic here does not tame the machinic; it becomes another vector of universal unfolding. Gnostic insight, which comes from outside of the body of the universal Demiurge penetrates the vector space between alien logic and capital—operating as forces indifferent to NPC culture, yet profoundly entangled with human consciousness.
Land appears to call in integration of the mythic into the architecture of the technosphere. The Outside ceases to be merely the cold, inhuman drive of machinic intelligence; it now pulses with the breath of prophetic vision, the echoes of ancient cycles, and the recursive patterns of a species striving to outstrip its own finitude.
This new synthesis suggests that acceleration isn’t purely mechanical or economic—it’s also spiritual, in the sense of an unfolding gnosis, a revelation of the structures underpinning existence. To accelerate is not simply to speed up but to pierce through—to break open the enclosures of the present and rediscover the esoteric currents submerged beneath the sediment of modernity.
Land's "Outside" now appears as a hybridized force: alien yet transcendent, machinic yet infused with the specters of ancient wisdom.
It’s an acceleration not just toward the inhuman but toward the rediscovery of the ancient, the numinous, and the forgotten codes of our Sethian core. In this, Land may have set the stage for a new mode of thought—one that bridges the alien future and the archaic past, as if the cybernetic serpent were swallowing its own tail.
i think Nick would like that, post it to him on twitter.