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#ACCELERATE
THE ACCELERATIONIST READER |
| By: |
Robin Mackay (Editor), Armen Avanessian (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0957529554 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780957529557 |
| Publisher: |
URBANOMIC MEDIA LTD |
| Pub. date: |
10 May, 2014 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
This collection presents a historical genealogy of accelerationism, a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, or critique it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its alienating, abstractive tendencies. |
| Synopsis: |
Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, or critique it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. '#Accelerate' presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking it through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s, and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike. At the forefront of the energetic debate around this disputed, problematic term, '#Accelerate' activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of 'reasonable' contemporary political alternatives. |
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UK |
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Urbanomic |
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Returnable |
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