Nick Land of the 90s did CCRU, which is what happens when a bunch of academics who like raves, mind-altering substances and philosophy realize they can combine them and call it working. They'd go on the shelf with Hakim Bey, Grant Morrisson and Peter Carroll except the barrier to entry was too high.

Then he had some kind of mental health problem and vanished for a while. He came back to be the alt right philosopher who knew some philosophy. He's interesting because Nick Land of old psychoanalyzed capitalism and decided it had a death drive, and Nick Land of now either has exactly the same view of the future of capitalism he used to but decided it can't be changed so we might as well embrace it or he thinks capitalism is standing on the bridge and he's shouting "jump! jump!" but it's impossible to decide which. He's Schroedinger's radical. Or he was. I think the consensus now is he's either what he says he is or, as our own iammyownrushmore put it, he liked the joke too much to let it go and it just became his life. I think Justin Murphy just came to the party a day late and thinks he got stood up.