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Nick Land
Nick Land
# 46
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
# 46
Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until We Die and Radically Accelerated Repetitionism
John Russell
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status—all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
—J.G. Ballard, interview in Penthouse (September 1970)
The already-dead term “accelerationism” is productive as a way of thinking and negotiating the register of stupidity—or…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Postmodernism, Aesthetics, Capitalism
Subjects
Accelerationism