I don't feel a need for there to be an "authorized" version of Mark, nor do I worry unduly that
Egress will somehow become that version - it wears its idiosyncrasies enough on its sleeve to avoid canonisation of that kind. While I haven't been getting on with it all that well, I do think it's better than most of what the k-punk industrial complex has produced so far - it's at least not an attempt to slot him into one of about three extremely tiresome media/culture war narratives. As far as writing something of my own is concerned, I feel like I've had my say - a bit obliquely, in the case of the
poem, and in a more direct way
here.
As regards Kantbot, Xenofeminism and Nick Land, one of these things is not like the others: I'm very pro-XF, and always have been. I will happily, and if needs be belligerently, defend a historically accurate account of the development and conceptual diversity of "accelerationism" against stupefying attempts to telescope it into a bogus narrative in which Nick Land writing mad shit about Trakl in the 90s somehow feeds directly into 4chan white nationalist terrorism.
Land today is someone who bigs up race-science mavens like Steve Sailer and routinely promulgates racist conspiracy theories about "demographic replacement", and I think it's unduly euphemising to refer to him as "politically incorrect" (which implies a sort of naughty, non-compliant eccentricity of opinion, out of line with the Official Narrative of the Censorious Left) when "racist" would have done just as well. I don't think Land, today, being a racist means that nobody can ever read
Fanged Noumena ever again. But I do think there's a sort of weird defensiveness about this from people who maintain an affiliation to Land. I honestly can't tell if they're saying "he's not racist though", which is patently false, or "yeah, he's a bit racist" (he's a
lot racist) "but so what? What's a little bit of racism between friends?"
Kantbot I have some sympathies with, for reasons of sperg tribal loyalty, but he's still really in the enemy camp. There was a notion among friends of mine a couple of years ago that maybe people like him - wayward, thoughtful, obviously intelligent - might be won over if they were engaged rather than shunned and despised. I don't think that's worked out all that well, to be honest.