Claim · 2026-09-28 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Lê's post of September 2026 names Land's remarks at the Incredible Machines conference of 2014 and quotes them.

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What it connects

Capitalism is AI, AI is Capitalism → cites → The Teleological Identity of Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence

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Claim and evidence

Capitalism is AI, AI is Capitalismcites ↓The Teleological Identity of Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-09-28 · publication Records dated 2026 →

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The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Capitalism is AI, AI is Capitalism

Architechtonics (Vincent Lê's Substack); opening of a piece whose remainder is published by the Institute of Art and Ideas · 2026-09-28

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Source excerpt

“At the Incredible Machines conference held in Vancouver, Canada in 2014, Land himself fortunately condensed”

Location in source Second paragraph

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Vincent Lê
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 07f440980d1d6c624e80d360f1b84e925576311945dd8d0440ace195ea40ea77). Substack post of Sep 28, 2026 (opening of the essay only).
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Vincent Lê, “Capitalism is AI, AI is Capitalism”, 2026-09-28.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 146) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Date. Substack post dated Sep 28, 2026, carrying the opening of an essay published in full by the Institute of Art and Ideas (not read).

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