A Primer on Neo-Reaction

I read Nick Land’s Xenosystems on a sunny afternoon in California as Los Angeles burned to the ground. Wake up, log onto X.com, scroll through image after image uploaded by friends of houses on fire, brake lights backed up for miles as people evacuated the city, hillsides engulfed in cataclysmic flame. Switch apps to check in with loved ones. “Are you ok? Did you get out?” Turn back to the book and read: “By 2037 the harsh phases of The Upheaval have finally ended. Western Eurasia is ruined and confused, but the fighting has burnt out among the rubble. In the Far East, the Chinese Confucian Republic has largely succeeded in restoring order, and is even enjoying the first wave of renewed prosperity.”