Meltdown

Nick Land's notorious 1994 CCRU text, the foundational document of accelerationism. In dense, manic, theory-fiction prose, Land sketches a story in which "Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity": markets learn to manufacture intelligence, the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon, the Reichs, and the Soviet International are all chewed up by an emergent Planetary Commercium, deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace, soft-engineering and cybernetic biology rewrite the species, and "Neo-China arrives from the future." Required reading for 21st-century accelerationist politics.