Claim · 1993 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Land's article of 1993 states that what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space.

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What it connects

Machinic Desire → articulates → Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence

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Claim and evidence

Machinic Desirearticulates ↓Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence

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Date: 1993 · publication Records dated 1993 →
Role: Earliest located
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsOne passage of the article; it records what the text states, not that the account is sound. The article's other content is not recorded. Read in the publisher's PDF of the journal article; the printed issue was not inspected.

The evidence 01

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Machinic desire

Textual Practice 7(3), pp. 471–482 (Routledge) · 1993

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Source excerpt

“what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space”

Location in source Printed p. 479 (PDF p. 10), paragraph beginning “Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Nick Land
Version: The publisher's PDF of the 1993 journal article (Taylor & Francis, online 30 June 2008), with a download stamp of 29 May 2012, on an academic reading site. The file retrieved at admission is byte-identical to the archive capture of 4 March 2019 that the cross-family check read (SHA-256 3b1c20b237bfe4965dab6a4653041fb1759fc6b3d6a82af5fce0b9bf93f9e7d6). The printed issue was not inspected. Retrieved at admission on 2026-11-01 (SHA-256 3b1c20b237bfe4965dab6a4653041fb1759fc6b3d6a82af5fce0b9bf93f9e7d6).
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Accessed: 2026-11-01
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2019-03-04: Machinic desire. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2019-03-04. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-11-01.
Attribution: Nick Land, “Machinic desire”, 1993.
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Date. Textual Practice 7(3), 1993; read in the publisher's PDF of the article.

Record ID ht-w06-land-1993-machinic-desire