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Negarestani, in his published conversation with Mackay of 2018, states that disconnecting intelligence from rational agenthood risks “rationalizing nature as intelligence” and that Land “mistakes rational agenthood with a perspectival phenomenal self”. Copy claim link
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Date 2018 · publication Records dated 2018 → Claimed date 2018-11. The standfirst describes the text as an edited and expanded version of a conversation at a book launch in New York in November 2018; the conversation does not date the published wording. Role Earliest located, Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that intelligence can be non-agentic, on which a view of capitalism as an intelligence without agents depends. Scope and limits Records Negarestani's stated disagreement in the published conversation; the rest of the same answer, which sets a non-agentic view of capitalism against Land's political writing, is not recorded. Earliest located among contesting W06 texts in the searches.
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Reengineering Philosophy ↗ Urbanomic, document UFD034 (urbanomic.com) · 2018
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Source excerpt “Nick mistakes rational agenthood with a perspectival phenomenal self (much like eliminativists) that can be explained away by some physical law, but the minded self is a-perspectival.” Location in source Negarestani's answer to the question 'what does it mean to be on the side of intelligence?'
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Source details and check notes Authors Reza Negarestani; Robin Mackay Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 c881d8fd2ee4ba70c69a041c5656aec93be83e7e5c78230cfe514babc185e044). Publisher's web document dated 2018, described as 'this edited and expanded version of his conversation with Robin Mackay at the launch of the book in New York in November 2018'. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Reza Negarestani, Robin Mackay, “Reengineering Philosophy”, 2018. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (27 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. Reza Negarestani speaking. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 40) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Reengineering Philosophy ↗ Urbanomic, document UFD034 (urbanomic.com) · 2018
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Source excerpt “In disconnecting the concept of intelligence from rational agenthood, we run the risk of rationalizing nature as intelligence, or even as an intelligent design.” Location in source Same answer, next paragraph
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-11-01
Source details and check notes Authors Reza Negarestani; Robin Mackay Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 c881d8fd2ee4ba70c69a041c5656aec93be83e7e5c78230cfe514babc185e044). Publisher's web document dated 2018, described as 'this edited and expanded version of his conversation with Robin Mackay at the launch of the book in New York in November 2018'. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Reza Negarestani, Robin Mackay, “Reengineering Philosophy”, 2018. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (24 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 40) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Urbanomic document UFD034, dated 2018.
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