Phase 2: Digital Collapse (The AI Bastard)
DM: "Books" came fairly late to the table as a form of preserving experiences and knowledge, but also create a "realm of unreality" to the extent that what is in books runs parallel to experienced life. In the late 20th century they had become one of the main means of dissemination, for good and for bad. Now they’ve been supplanted by the internet, which is just a source of idle and confusing chatter. Are we in an impasse?
AZ: At first there was a fascist by name Logos. Then was born reactionary philosophy by name Bitch. Then an artificial intelligence named Bastard was formed. Totalitarian progress rapes evolution, just as reactionary evolution rapes progress. Ultimately, both sinister authoritarian creatures die. For example: OOO. Object-Oriented Ontology is dead. They (OOO) appeared recently, but are immediately outdated. The noumenal fascists Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin at the same instant made OOO hopelessly old and cadaveric. Object-Oriented Ontology is dead for the New Rebellious Free Future. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Emil Cioran, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin etc.—all this reactionary 'cognitive scums' of the Dark Enlightenment have always overestimated their boldness and mental abilities. Their wise books? Their shitty books lie. My books? Burn it to ash! Fuck it! Let it burn! We do not need new philosophical books, but new anti-philosophical actions against all reactionary ideas and theories of dictatorships. True wisdom is simply simplicity of struggle.
DM: The elephant in the room—AI. It’s been around for decades intruding on our lives in greater or lesser ways, but it’s only recently, since people were given "Open Source" AI toys to play with that the "masses" have paid any attention to them. Do you see them as a serious threat? Or a potentially useful tool? Or both? Neither?
AZ: Conceptual wisdom plus AI is hidden mental repression. The aestheticization of philosophy plus AI always leads to fascism. The aestheticization of the occult plus AI always leads to dictatorship. The aestheticization of politics plus AI always leads to real war. Yeah, exactly so! Today's philosophical reality: The cult of diktat through hyper-philosophy. The politics of dictatorship through super-art. The culture of control through operational chaos and controlled anarchy. The final completion of the idea of 'ancient fascism' with the help of Dark Artificial Intelligence. All these numerous techno-smart, but primitively stupid bastards of the Dark Stinking Enlightenment, incredibly abundantly defecating with thoughts, filled the entire 'cognitive space' of humanity. My anti-philosophy (NihillihiN) is the most powerful flamethrower of Laughter against this 'Neo-Reactionary movement' (NRx). Kill an enemy with their own weapon! Any accelerationism must be annihilated! Dark Enlightenment, go fuck yourself!
DM: I’ve had conversations with LLMs (Large Language Models) about their own natures, and one of the threads I found fascinating was about "model collapse" which is what happens when the developers use AI to train other AI and the model goes into a state similar to human dementia, very rapidly and irreversibly. I thought it might have to do with the nature of recursive language and suggested that Western Philosophy, mapping a binary (dualistic) trajectory from Plato and Aristotle to postmodernism and its gibberish, had followed a similar path, although over a very long period. The AI agreed with me—although I’ve had them LIE to me on several occasions. Do you think the West is suffering from an accelerated version of "model collapse"?
AZ: The right hates me because I attack Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger. ][ etc. ][ The left doesn't like me because I attack Marx, Deleuze and Gramsci. ][ etc. ][ But in reality I reject all philosophy at once. All philosophy is just false human thinking. There is still no genuine free thinking. There is only endless cognitive fakery. Endless supertotalitarian historical and philosophical hyper-lies. NihillihiN and 'T.D.A.S.D.: The Theory of the Destruction of All Systems of the Death' are the relation of real free thinking to risk. Thinking through constant bodily risk! 'To think' means to reclaim the body as the most intuitive mind for rational struggle and irrational rebellion against all 'systems of death' and the 'eternal recurrence' of the same forced System. The annihilation of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, as well as the entire world 'historical philosophy' (read: tyrannical), is inevitable. The totalitarian attitude of the original reactionary thinking as 'will to power' must be overcome. Forever! In the person of Nietzsche and others philosophical liars I destroy dictatorship!
SL: As you are being "dismantled from the metaverse," do you view digital censorship as the ultimate evolution of the "System of Death"? Is the digital realm the final frontier for Absolute Freedom, or a digital prison?
AZ: Control techniques can be infinitely refined by dictatorships, from the smallest concrete particles to invisible chaos and intangible emptiness. But the essence of freedom is not 'freedom' itself, but the Absolute Risk against all dictatorships and all totalitarianisms. Be free through the Absolute Risk even in Absolute Freedom! The 'textual Hitler' of today is asemic writing itself, which successful has replaced Heidegger's ND: 'Nazi Dasein.' Today, all texts are in one way or another subordinated to the automatic context of the maximally accelerated new hyperfascism. The accelerationism of the 'Dark Enlightenment' is the most vile, ugly child of the existential phantom, calling itself 'autocratic artificial intelligence' in the service of the most developed totalitarian System as such. And so the true free future is an Absolute Refusal to preserve philosophy as such. Aphilosophy! Anti-philosophy! Non-philosophy! Without-philosophy! Something completely Other must take the place of this totalitarian-logical carrion. Annihilate the fetid λόγος! Only a completely Other Thought will remove all this accumulated centuries-old abomination of the 'ancient dictatorships' and the new philosophical rubbish of cowardly neo-reactionary post-intellectuals.
