Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 - 2007

Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 - 2007 Nick Land Urbanomic/SequenceMarch 2011; Seventh edition 2019Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin MackayPaperback 115x175mm, 670pp. First edition, March 2011: Limited edition of 1000 numbered copiesISBN 978-0-9553087-8-9 Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the writings of Nick Land, variously described as ‘rabid nihilism’, ‘mad black Deleuzianism’, ‘accelerationism’, and ‘cybergothic’. Wielding weaponized, machinically-recombined versions of Deleuze and Guattari, Reich and Freud, in the company of fellow ‘werewolves’ such as Nietzsche, Bataille, Artaud, Trakl and Cioran, to a cutup soundtrack of Bladerunner, Terminator and Apocalypse Now, Land plotted a rigorously schizophrenic escape route out of academic philosophy, and declared all-out war on the Human Security System. Despite his ‘disappearance’, Land’s output has been a crucial underground influence both on recent Speculative Realist thought, and on artists, writers, music