On 2015-10-07 14:38, Anthony Stephenson wrote: >> "Deleuze & Guattari: The Eternal Return of Accelerating Capital" - >> > http://darkecologies.com/2015/10/04/deleuze-guattari-the-eternal-return-of-accelerating-capital/ >> [1] > > Accelerationism, while originating in a utopian vision of Nietzsche, > may actually be another word for neoliberalism. “The State, its > police, and its army form a gigantic enterprise of antiproduction, but > at the heart of production itself, and conditioning this production” > – D&G
Landian accelerationism is certainly ultra-capitalist (Nick Land regards capitalism/AI/globalization/modernism/critique as identical). But as the D&G quote notes our current political/economic system is actually a drag on productive forces. Left accelerationism can be seen as a return to the historical project of setting those forces free - http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future The introduction to the accelerationist reader (available online) goes through this history in some detail - http://www.urbanomic.com/Publications/Accelerate/Accelerate-Introduction.pdf I still really don't understand Lyotard's part in all this though. :-( For a nice concise take on political and philosophical (left-)accelerationism I recommend - http://urbanomic.com/pub_speculativeaesthetics.php - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
