[NetBehaviour] Links (NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2506, Issue 1)

[Rob Myers]

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.