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#Accelerate
The Accelerationist Reader
by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian, J.G. Ballard, Ray Brassier, Samuel Butler, Jacques Camatte, Ccru, Gilles Deleuze, Shulamith Firestone, Mark Fisher, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Iain Hamilton Grant, Félix Guattari, Nick Land, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean-François Lyotard, Karl Marx, Reza Negarestani, Antonio Negri, Luciana Parisi, Sadie Plant, Patricia Reed, Benedict Singleton, Nick Srnicek, Tiziana Terranova, Thorstein Veblen, Alex Williams, Diann Bauer- Author: Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian, J.G. Ballard, Ray Brassier, Samuel Butler, Jacques Camatte, Ccru, Gilles Deleuze, Shulamith Firestone, Mark Fisher, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Iain Hamilton Grant, Félix Guattari, Nick Land, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean-François Lyotard, Karl Marx, Reza Negarestani, Antonio Negri, Luciana Parisi, Sadie Plant, Patricia Reed, Benedict Singleton, Nick Srnicek, Tiziana Terranova, Thorstein Veblen, Alex Williams, Diann Bauer
- Release date: May 2014
- Language: english
- Format: paperback, 536 pages
- Publisher: Urbanomic / Merve Verlag
- ISBN: 9780957529557 (0957529554)
- Genres: philosophy, politics, economics, theory, sociology, apocalyptic, utopia
About The Book
Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.
The term was coined to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of theory with the excess and abandon of capitalist culture, and the associated performative aesthetic of texts that seek to become immanent to the very process of alienation. Developing at the dawn of contemporary neoliberal consensus, the uneasy status of this impulse, between subversion and acquiescence, between theoretical purchase and aesthetic enjoyment, constitutes the core problematic of accelerationism.
Since the 2013 publication of Williams’s and Srnicek’s #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics, the term has been adopted to name a set of new theoretical enterprises that aim to conceptualise non-capitalist futures outside of traditional marxist critiques and regressive, decelerative or restorative solutions.
#ACCELERATE presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and anonymous units like CCRU and SWITCH, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, Terminator and Bladerunner) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.
On either side of this largely unexplored central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own ‘Prometheanism’ and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.
At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #ACCELERATE activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and Kapital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of ‘reasonable’ contemporary political alternatives.
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