Astral Codex Ten

Nick Land

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Nick Land

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Nick Land is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 07, 2023 and January 16, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “E/acc . For social reasons, neoreaction mixed freely with Nick Land’s accelerationism”; “augmentation of Luria with Nick Land”. It most often appears alongside Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 07, 2023
  • Last seen: January 16, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

What Ever Happened To Neoreaction?
December 07, 2023 · Original source
E/acc. For social reasons, neoreaction mixed freely with Nick Land’s accelerationism, even though these weren’t naturally compatible philosophies. Land mixed his points in with an extra dose of race realism, and was never shy about how excited he was for robots to kill all humans.
E/acc keeps the coolness cred of “accelerationism”, ditches the race realism, and tiptoes around the “kill all humans” part. Having shed the politically-toxic neoreaction brand, it’s spread much further than the Landian version ever could.
Charter cities embed this basic idea in a liberal framework. They allow basically democratic countries that notice they’re failing to develop to give a small portion of their land to a non-genocidal and non-socialist company tasked with developing it according to international best practices, and everyone can choice whether to live in the small portion or the rest of the country. The larger country takes responsibility for making sure the company respects human rights, and we get there from here because a lot of countries have shown interest in doing this (and if it’s proven to work, hopefully more countries will later).
The Dilbert Afterlife
January 16, 2026 · Original source
Adams’ version adds several innovations to this basic story. Whatever parts of God aren’t involved in physical matter have become the laws of probability; this explains the otherwise inexplicable evolutionary coincidences that created humankind. There’s something about how gravity is produced by some sort of interference between different divine corpuscules - Adams admits that Einstein probably also had useful things to say about gravity, but probably his own version amounts to the same thing, and it’s easier to understand, and that makes it better (IT’S JUST A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT! IF YOU TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, YOU FAIL.) But my favorite part is the augmentation of Luria with Nick Land: the final (or one of the final) steps in the divine reassembly is the creation of the Internet, aka “God’s nervous system”, which will connect everything to everything else and give the whole system awareness of its divine purpose.
What makes a holy land holy?” he asked.
“Let’s say you dug up all the dirt and rocks and vegetation of a holy place and moved it someplace else, leaving nothing but a hole that is one mile deep in the original location. Would the holy land now be the new location where you put the dirt and rocks and vegetation, or the old location with the hole?”