TESTI / 4 / Nick Land /
Meltdown, here offered in its first Italian translation, is an experimental essay originally performed by British philosopher Nick Land in 1994, successively disseminated online, and recently republished in Fanged Noumena, a collection of Land’s writings edited by Urbanomic. Following a renewed interest for Nick Land’s thought spurred by discussions around the philosophical propositions of accelerationism, the tangle of post-human visions, geopolitical speculation and xenovirological fantasies developed throughout the dense paragraphs of Meltdown has been rediscovered as a classic of cyberpunk theory-fiction, capable of combining the urgency for an exit from the quagmires of postmodernity with prophesizing visions about the inevitable consequences of techno-computational emergence.
