Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
The Definitive Collection of Nick Land's Most Influential Work
Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the collected writings of Nick Land, originally published between 1987 and 2007. During the 1990s, Land's work at the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit in Warwick fused philosophy, cybernetics, fiction, and number theory into an extraordinary body of work that shattered academic conventions and redefined what theory could do.
These texts — delirious, rigorous, and unlike anything else in contemporary thought — trace a path from Kant and Bataille through to cyberpunk, accelerationism, and the outer limits of human reason. Land's writing doesn't explain the future; it performs it, collapsing the distinction between concept and sensation, philosophy and science fiction.
What You'll Find Inside
- Land's groundbreaking essays on Deleuze, Guattari, and machinic desire
- The original texts that launched accelerationist philosophy
- Writings on numerics, time, and hyperstition from the CCRU period
- Critical engagements with Kant, Nietzsche, Bataille, and Heidegger
- Introductions and contextual notes by Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier
Why This Book Matters
Whether you encountered Land through political theory, philosophy Twitter, or the accelerationist underground, this is the primary source. No secondhand summaries. No filtered interpretations. Just the raw, uncompromising texts that made Nick Land one of the most controversial and consequential thinkers of the late twentieth century.
672 pages. Paperback. Published by Urbanomic/Sequence Press.
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