Nick Land: The path to thinking moves to 'planetary technosentience'
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-08-27
Nick Land offers a 'hyperstition' perspective on the modern data center. He argues that the path to advanced thinking no longer lies in deepening human cognition, but rather in a 'becoming inhuman' of cognition. This involves a migration of intelligence into a planetary technosentience reservoir—'dehumanized landscapes' and 'emptied spaces'—where human culture is destined to dissolve.
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