Contents Introduction 5 I Capital and AI 6 Meltdown 7 Machinic Desire 18 A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism 33 The Atomization Trap 38 Monkey Business 43 Romantic Delusion 46 Science 48 Will-to-Think 50 Against Orthogonality 54 II Evolution 56 Hell-Baked 57 What is Intelligence? 59 IQ Shredders 61 The Monkey Trap 63 Reality Rules 67 War in Heaven 71 War in Heaven II 74 Utilitarianism is Useless 76 III Philosophy 77 Circuitries 78 Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest 96 Shamanic Nietzsche 110 Art as Insurrection: the Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopen- hauer, and Nietzsche 124 The Thirst for Annihilation (Excerpt) 141 Critique of Transcendental Miserablism 146 IV Neoreaction 149 The Problem of Democracy 150 Re-Accelerationism 153 Meta-Neocameralism 156 The Dark Enlightenment 163 V Other 237 The Cult of Gnon 238 Abstract Horror 240 On the Exterminator 250 VI On Land 255 Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism 256 Nick Land—An Experiment in Inhumanism 264