Circuitries
An essay by Nick Land, Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy 4, dated October 1992. The volume's imprint page reads 'Published October 1992' (PDF p. 2); the journal's volume list gives 1992. Urbanomic reprints the essay in Fanged Noumena (2011), pp. 289–318; that reprint was not read.
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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) · published 1992-10 · 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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- Introduction (#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader)Mackay and Avanessian's introduction to #Accelerate of 2014 names Land's “Circuitries” and describes its opening.2014-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Mackay and Avanessian, #Accelerate introduction (2014): document page →
- Nick Land has no theory of AI, just a theory of capitalismThe LessWrong post of October 2026 quotes a sentence it attributes to Land's “Circuitries”.2026-10-09 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗jacob, Nick Land has no theory of AI (LessWrong, 2026): document page →
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceLand'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.1992-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableLand's essay “Circuitries” of 1992 states that the high road to thinking passes not through a deepening of human cognition but through its becoming inhuman, a migration of cognition into an emerging planetary technosentience, and describes resistance to the side-lining of human intelligence by a coming “techno sapiens” as phobic.1992-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligenceLand's essay “Circuitries” of 1992 states that, as the capitalist urbanization of labour abstracted it alongside technical machines, intelligence will be transplanted into new software worlds, and that the capitalized terminus of anthropoid civilization (“axiomatics”) will come to be seen as the primitive trigger for a transglobal post-biological machinism.1992-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence: propositions page →
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