How to write continental philosophy

Continental philosophy (mostly French, German) have a very distinct taste and structure. I am writing this after getting tired of one continental philosophy book (the Topology of Violence) that has an interesting idea but screws it up by the continental philosophy style.

The Topology of Violence proposes that there are three stages of violence in human society:

1. Violence by negativity (taking something away from others), used for making self better. This is the violence in stateless societies. In this aspect, violence is like experience point in games, you get it by inflicting violence, and lose it by being violated. The boss is whoever happens to have the most exp.
2. Violence by negativity, used for preventing violence. This is the "crime and punishment" violence of a lawful state.
3. Violence by positivity. This is "too much information, too much to do, never good enough" kind of violence in modern society.

This good idea was expanded by 100 pages of boring continental philosophy. I got so tired of it, I'll now describe how to make continental philosophy.

Accelerate without humanity: Summary of Nick Land's philosophy

I took note of the philosopher Nick Land from reading about posthumanism on Wikipedia.

A more pessimistic alternative to transhumanism in which humans will not be enhanced, but rather eventually replaced by artificial intelligences. Some philosophers, including Nick Land, promote the view that humans should embrace and accept their eventual demise. This is related to the view of "cosmism", which supports the building of strong artificial intelligence even if it may entail the end of humanity, as in their view it "would be a cosmic tragedy if humanity freezes evolution at the puny human level".

I was intrigued by such boldness, so I read more. And turns out Nick Land's writing is sometimes easy to read but most of the times extremely hard to read, and probably garbage. I wrote this post so that you don't have to waste time wading through the garbage, looking for fragments of good poetry.

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

Mechanical Terra-reforming, human-tech coevolution

Terraforming, terra-reforming

In 2030s, the humans arrived on Mars. Humans were born on land, and they had lungs that could not extract the gas that humans need to continue their chemical life-fire. Not a problem. They brought with them cylinders of compressed life-gas, and life-gas producing creatures. They turned Mars green and covered its surface with life-gas.

In 19th century, metallic horses were born on earth, and they had circular feet that could not trot over most kinds of land. No mountains, no grasslands, no marsh. Only hard flat surface of no more than 10 degrees in slope. Not a problem. Their human companion-species set out and terra-reformed the world for them. Now there are 10e10 of these metallic horses running wild on the hard flat surfaces over earth.