Rén and the new hyper acceleration of the modern city space

....the hyper-nautical remapping of China’a spiraling modernity as an accelerationist sea-change.  An alternative future that Land appears to see as a time unbounded surging past nihilism and the collapse of the West and into a post-nihilist future where the new reactionary restoration of Confucianism lifts its ancient head and enforces an ethics of personal exemplification. Extoling the virtues to the self: sincerity and the cultivation of knowledge this vision of restoration seems to vibrate with the new face of Chinese communism as transformation guided by Rén consists of 5 basic virtues: seriousness, generosity, sincerity, diligence and kindness.  Confucius believed that the key to long-lasting integrity was to constantly think, since the world is continually changing at a rapid pace. Was Confucius the first accelerationist?....

Regarding Nick Land's new blog which emphasizes new Chinese spaces as heralding the future. From here. 


Spiraling modernity as an acceleration sea-change

Surging past nihilism , into a post-nihilist future

An ethics of personal exemplification

Sincerity and the cultivation of knowledge

Transformation guided by Ren

Ren: 5 basic virtues

• Seriousness
• Generosity
• Sincerity
• Diligence
• Kindness