Question for the hive mind

[entanglingbriars]

Does anyone either a) know of some good academic literature on the Rationalist cult or the Rationalist diaspora or b) have any clue how the hell you'd look for it?

Comments

[unknought]

Okay, that was pretty glib and probably wrong. But the impression I have of Land is that a) he thinks that machines will come to replace humans in every part of the economy and thence replace humans entirely, creating a world of production for its own sake without any beneficiary, and b) for some reason he thinks we should accelerate the process and bring that about as quickly as possible. I'm probably deeply confused about something here, but Land's philosophy is very weird and opaque and all of his object-level prescriptions that I've encountered seem pretty evil, so it's never seemed worthwhile to me to really understand what's going on there.