Nick Rand and the New Reactionism

• Nick Rand] and New Reactionism: Dark Ideas Overwhelming the Modern World (Seikai-sha Shinsho) New Book - 5/26/2019
• Satoshi Kizawa (Author)
• Amazon

Nick Rand, the “dark” frontier of thought. A dark new current of thought, known as the “New Reactionism” or the “Dark Enlightenment,” which challenges liberal values, has been making its presence felt in our time, both in the shadows and in the open. In this book, three important figures approach its elusive core: Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Nick Rand. In particular, it is the further intention of this book to delve into the thought of the philosopher Rand. The sphere of influence of Rand and his research group CCRU ranges from recent trends in thought such as “Accelerationism” and “Thoughtful Realism” to cultural players in diverse fields and cultural phenomena such as “vaporwave. Only by looking at “dark” thought will we be able to see what we are looking for.

• René Girard

• Sovereign Individuals and PayPal Founded

• Nietzscheism and Thiel

• cryptocurrencies and cypherpunks.

• What is libertarianism?

• The words “freedom” and “democracy” are incompatible.

• Curtis Yarvin’s ideas and symmetrical sovereignty.

• New Government Science

• Anti-Modernism and Its Contradictions

• The Paradox of Enlightenment

• [Devotion to Deleuze & Guattari

  • cosmic horror

• Great Filter Hypothesis

• Cthulhu Mythos and abstract horror.

• Philosophy of the Desire of Death

• Hyperstition

• Kantan Meyersoo

• Ray Brassier

• Nick Land’s Shanghai

• Accelerationism

• Leftist Accelerationism and Mark Fisher.

• Right Accelerationism, Unconditional Accelerationism.

• transhumanism and union with machines.

• Accelerationism and Russian Cosmism.

  • Basilisk in loco and “matrix”

• Vaporwave and Accelerationism

• Vaporwave and Ghostliness

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