An unsettling artefact of the techno-fascist age we live in, important to those interested in where we are heading. One for the 'know thy enemy' shelf, and vital if you are remotely interested in Mark Fisher, who was extremely close to Land for decades. 

This is a late-period Nick Land collection (definitely within the meth use years) drawing together writings from 2013 to 2023. Outsideness condenses a decade of his aphoristic, anti-liberal, accelerationist, and internet-scarred thought into a short, sharp volume. More fragmentary than systematic, it reads less like a conventional philosophical work than a transmission from the outer limits of theory as it mutates into something harsher, colder, and politically radioactive. 

Land remains one of the strangest and most divisive figures to come out of the CCRU orbit: influential on contemporary techno-pessimism, accelerationism, and the reactionary edges of digital culture, but impossible to separate from the darker ideological currents his work helped energise.

For readers interested in the collision between philosophy, online extremity, and post-human capital, this is a compact and harsh object, but genuinely important reading. Again, know thy enemy, read with a careful eye, not a reactive one, to get the most from it.