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Escape Velocities
Alex Williams
In the early years of the twenty-first century there emerged a renewed interest in theoretical ideas of acceleration . The key figure in these discussions has been the British philosopher Nick Land. The term “accelerationism,” itself coined by Benjamin Noys (in a characteristically critical register), bares some explanation. As Noys defines it, accelerationism describes certain libertarian post-Marxist positions (Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy , and the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Capitalism, Philosophy, Aesthetics
Subjects
Accelerationism, Neoliberalism, Epistemology