On the road from the Guatemalan border to Tapachula I was asked by a Mexican taxi-driver what language they spoke in England. The answer, of course, is prehispanicized North-American, or dissipator-reprocessed neo-English techno-capital machine code: the language in which the writings of Deleuze & Guattari now function. English and French culture are polarizing upon a schizo-paranoid axis, with the former melting into the crack and computer heated deterritorialized mediascape, and the latter retreating into immuno-panic and protection. As the Maghreb explodes, French will doubtless decorate civilisational collapse, but laissez-faire has left home, and as far as second languages are concerned it’s time to learn Cantonese.
Nick Land, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Warwick University
— The Modern Review, June-July 1994, Volume 1, Issue 15, p. 31
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