De Luz was a French philosopher and Guataria was a French psychoanalyst.

And in 1972, they published a book together where they introduced the concept of de-territorialization.

This is the opposite of territorialization, which refers to restraints that keep a system in check.

De-territorialization means removing those restraints.

So you can see why Nick Land drew a line from de-territorialization to accelerationism.

Could we cram more syllables into these words?

Cheebus.

In the 1990s, Land was part of a group that was founded at Warwick University called the

Cyberdantic Culture Research Unit or the CCRU, which sounds like some kind of evil organization

from a Terminator movie or something.

That might have been on purpose.

They fancied themselves as a collective of

renegade academics who came together in part to, quote, undermine the cheery utopianism of the

time, according to one of the group's co-founder, Sadie Plant. They published numerous articles,

held in-person conferences, and reportedly did a lot of drugs. Is that not everybody's college

experience in the 90s? No. The CCRU eventually

burned itself out and its members went on to do other things. But this is where the left-wing

right-wing split started to happen. Another influential member named Mark Fisher started

blogging under the name K-punk. He attracted a following and eventually co-wrote a manifesto that

became the foundational document of left-wing accelerationism, or LX.

It's Nick Land's writings that are considered foundational to right-wing accelerationism,

or RX.

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