Okkultes Denken

Nick Land, one of the leading figures of the anti-democratic neoreactionary movement, prophet of acceleration, and self-proclaimed "hyper-racist," is among the most ruthless thinkers of our time. With hallucinatory fervor, he unleashes monsters, Nietzschean zombies, or theory-soaked abjects, dragging Cthulhu-summoning fiction into reality. Unrestrained, Land charges into the foundational pillars of the Enlightenment, revealing a dark, irrational world in its ruins, where the subject of Western thought has ultimately become obsolete. Why, then, do the aesthetic and philosophy of technology discourses follow him, disregarding their own scruples? This question is equally fascinating to the editors Dietmar Dath and Philipp Theisohn in their accompanying email exchange, leading them to conclude: "Because he is something extremely rare in the history of the last 250 years: a person who thinks and argues as the worst and most erroneous would think and argue, if it could think and argue at all." Thinking, as this volume featuring Nick Land's theory-fictions—translated into German for the first time—demonstrates, is a violence that compels the imagination to reveal itself as reality.