Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land
Other Life
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Is the Zero Point Unique?
i wonder if your idea about zero has something to do with this, because in some sense, you can think of the pre modern world view enforced by traditional authorities as as keeping a kind of forced lid on precisely that chaotic cycling around the zero point. The liberation of mathematics is kind of the unmooring of a rationality's ability to anchor itself ethically. A, and perhaps that's why zero is unique. In fact, your hypothesis is right, because it sort of makes possible this chaotically perverse a, you know, symmetry around, around the number line, or something like that. I thinkha, there's imagined, if we could use your language, like great chain of
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