Claim · 1992-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Land's essay “Circuitries” of 1992 states that it may still be a few decades before artificial intelligences surpass the horizon of biological ones, and that it is superstitious to imagine that human dominion of terrestrial culture is still marked out in centuries.

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Circuitries → articulates → Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

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Circuitriesarticulates ↓Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

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Date: 1992-10 · publication Records dated 1992 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsA statement of Land's argument in 1992, not evidence that it is true. The essay opens with two pages of unpunctuated narrative verse (pp. 217–218) before the expository text that holds this passage. The evidence is a paraphrase read from page images of a scan without a text layer; no wording was checked mechanically.

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Circuitries

Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy 4 (1992), 'Deleuze and the Transcendental Unconscious', pp. 217–235; whole volume posted as a scanned PDF by the journal (plijournal.com) · 1992-10

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Land writes that thinking about technics is ceasing to matter because technics is increasingly thinking about itself; that it might still be a few decades before artificial intelligences surpass the horizon of biological ones; and that it is utterly superstitious to imagine that the human dominion of terrestrial culture is still marked out in centuries, let alone in some metaphysical perpetuity.

Location in source Pli 4 (1992), p. 219, second paragraph (PDF p. 115, right page)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Nick Land
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 688ec756350b944ae6e32a56bd315d215d8884a353ff827638b7072bfb823934). The journal's own scan of the printed volume, imprint 'Published October 1992' (PDF p. 2); essay at PDF pp. 114–123.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nick Land, “Circuitries”, 1992-10.
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Date. Imprint 'Published October 1992' (PDF p. 2).

Record ID ht-w01-land-1992-circuitries