{"id":1186,"date":"2016-05-01T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2016-05-01T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T22:48:12","slug":"neoreaction-a-basilisk-by-phil-sandifer-is-kickstarting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2016\/05\/01\/neoreaction-a-basilisk-by-phil-sandifer-is-kickstarting\/","title":{"rendered":"“Neoreaction a Basilisk” by Phil Sandifer is kickstarting."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent the last six months editing a book. Phil Sandifer found himself writing about<\/a> “A genre dominated by, in effect, an AI crank, an extremist technolibertarian, and whatever the fuck Nick Land is” and I begged to preview it. I ended up researching, editing, copyediting and helping with the publicity. It has been six months of solid and hearty yuks and lulz and a sheer delight.<\/p>\n

The kickstarter<\/a> is up now (announcement<\/a>). So far it’s landed about $1500 in twelve hours; people seem quite<\/i> keen to get this book. And let me assure you that the stretch goal essays are also things the world needs.<\/p>\n

There are also excerpts ([0]<\/a> [1]<\/a> [2]<\/a>) and images of what the conspiracy zine<\/a> and full colour<\/a> editions will look like. (If I had $70 of actual money spare I\u2019d be sending it in to get the conspiracy zine and colour editions, which look to be gorgeous productions.)<\/p>\n

\u201cOr, to put it another way, this is a book that uses Eliezer Yudkowsky, Mencius Moldbug, and Nick Land as a loosely stitched together foundation on which to build an oddball philosophical structure made of bits of Hannibal, China Mieville, Alan Turing, Thomas Ligotti, John Milton, and a futuristic AI that will torture you for all eternity if you buy a mosquito net.\u201d<\/p>\n

edit:<\/b> and at $3000 in the first 18 hours, Phil decided he’d better preview the $4000 essay, “The Blind All-Seeing Eye of Gamergate.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent the last six months editing a book. Phil Sandifer found himself writing about “A genre dominated by, in effect, an AI crank, an extremist technolibertarian, and whatever the fuck Nick Land is” and I begged to preview it. I ended up researching, editing, copyediting and helping with the publicity. It has been six … Continue reading ““Neoreaction a Basilisk” by Phil Sandifer is kickstarting.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}