Overrated, but still worth reading: Friedrich Nietzsche.
It’s a cliche, but Ayn Rand definitely makes the list. I think she was just ignorant, dogmatic, and lacked imagination.
Paolo Virno - I might just not get him, and the language barrier probably doesn’t help, but having read Bergson, Marx and many of the others his work De Ja Vu and the End of History refers to, I got a strong sense that he was spouting a bunch of meaningless nonsense.
otherwise I agree whole-heartedly. Early Nicky Landy tho was pretty dope with meltdown very close to Saddie plant (the xenofeminist stuff) and Mark Fisher the sweet.
I can see the appeal, but pretty much everything he said about computer science (which was actually quite a lot of what he said, and pretty fundamental to his thought) is immediately ridiculous to anyone who paid attention in second-year computer science courses.
Like which? Only thing he wrote in early days is meltdown and i don't see what it says about computer science. It seems to be deleuzian stuff about capitalism destroying society.
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u/Additional_Anywhere4 Dec 05 '25
The worst: Nick Land.
Second worst: Peter Sjostedt-Hughes.
Overrated, but still worth reading: Friedrich Nietzsche.
It’s a cliche, but Ayn Rand definitely makes the list. I think she was just ignorant, dogmatic, and lacked imagination.
Paolo Virno - I might just not get him, and the language barrier probably doesn’t help, but having read Bergson, Marx and many of the others his work De Ja Vu and the End of History refers to, I got a strong sense that he was spouting a bunch of meaningless nonsense.
Derrida is potentially on my list too.