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* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5808 The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Philosophy]'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Sep 2010, 196 pp. Discusses the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Latour, Negri, and Badiou from the perspective of accelerationism (see also the section 'Primary references' below). [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0bc11200]
 
* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5808 The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Philosophy]'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Sep 2010, 196 pp. Discusses the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Latour, Negri, and Badiou from the perspective of accelerationism (see also the section 'Primary references' below). [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0bc11200]
 
* Steven Shaviro, ''Post Cinematic Affect'', O-Books, Dec 2010, 200 pp. A book on accelerationist aesthetics, treating recent audiovisual productions as mappings of the spaces and affective modulations of neoliberal capitalism. [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/1574d8faea2e4e01470a37f6a0f60ec6#71.01-72.55 Passage] (pp 136-139).
 
* Steven Shaviro, ''Post Cinematic Affect'', O-Books, Dec 2010, 200 pp. A book on accelerationist aesthetics, treating recent audiovisual productions as mappings of the spaces and affective modulations of neoliberal capitalism. [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/1574d8faea2e4e01470a37f6a0f60ec6#71.01-72.55 Passage] (pp 136-139).
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* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12728 Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism]'', Zero Books, Oct 2014.
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* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12728 Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism]'', Zero Books, Oct 2014. Review: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/the-drone-of-minerva/ Wark].
  
 
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"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, nor to await its demise at the hands of its own contradictions, but to accelerate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. The term was introduced into political theory to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of philosophical thought with the excesses of capitalist culture (or anticulture), embodied in writings that sought an immanence with this process of alienation. The uneasy status of this impulse, between subversion and acquiescence, between realist analysis and poetic exacerbation, has made accelerationism a fiercely-contested theoretical stance. At the basis of all accelerationist thought lies the assertion that the crimes, contradictions and absurdities of capitalism have to be countered with a politically and theoretically progressive attitude towards its constituent elements." (Mackay and Avanessian, 2014:4)

Events

Authors

Writings

Noys

Talks
Primary references

Noys: "In my critical account [The Persistence of the Negative], accelerationism originates as an explicit theory in the early 1970s in three main works [listed below]. The common origin lies in the recognition that capitalism forms the dominant horizon, subsuming not only forms of life but also strategies of opposition," (from his June 2013 interview). "[These three texts] reply to Marx’s contention that ‘[t]he real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself’, by arguing that we must crash through this barrier by turning capitalism against itself. They are an exotic variant of la politique du pire: if capitalism generates its own forces of dissolution then the necessity is to radicalise capitalism itself: the worse the better. We can call this tendency accelerationism," (passage) (pp 4-6).

  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia [1972], trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane, University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
  • Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy [1974], trans. Ian Hamilton Grant, Indiana University Press, 1993.
  • Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Economy and Death [1976], trans. Ian Hamilton Grant, Sage, 1993.

#Accelerate Manifesto and commentaries

Selected books and essays

Anthologies

  • e-flux 46: "Accelerationist Aesthetics" (Jun 2013), ed. Gean Moreno. Texts by Alex Williams, Steven Shaviro, Benjamin Bratton, François Roche, Franco Berardi Bifo, Mark Fisher, Benedict Singleton, Debbora Battaglia, Patricia MacCormack, and John Russell.
  • Armen Avanessian (ed.), #Akzeleration, Berlin: Merve, Dec 2013, 96 pp. (in German). Texts by Armen Avanessian, Franco Bifo Berardi, Nick Land, Patricia McCormack, Benjamin Noys, Matteo Pasquinelli, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams. [6], Introduction. Review: Drees.
  • Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, Falmouth: Urbanomic, May 2014, 536 pp. Texts by Mark Fisher, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Antonio Negri, Tiziana Terranova, Luciana Parisi, Reza Negarestani, Ray Brassier, Benedict Singleton, Nick Land, Patricia Reed, Diann Bauer, and the section on "a genealogy of accelerationism". [7], Introduction. Reviews: Harris, O'Sullivan, Andrews. Commentary: Wark.
  • Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay (eds.), #Akzeleration#2, trans. Moritz Gansen and Hannah Wallenfels, Berlin: Merve, (forthcoming Oct 2014), 100 pp. (in German). Texts by Ray Brassier, Nick Land, Toni Negri, Luciana Parisi, Nick Srnicek, Tiziana Terranova and Alex Williams. [8]
  • Ed Keller, Tim Matts, Benjamin Noys (eds.), Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult, 2 vols., Punctum Books, (forthcoming Jan 2015). Introduction.

Journal issues

  • Inter/Alia: A Journal of Queer Studies, Special Issue on Accelerofeminisms, eds. Rafal Majka and Michael O’Rourke, (forthcoming Spring 2015). [9]

Interviews

Blogs

Nick Srnicek (Synthetic Edifice), Nick Land (Urban Future), London-based PhD-students (Accelerationism: Cosmism, Prometheanism, New Enlightenment), Craig Hickman (Alien Ecologies).

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References

1990s UK theory-fiction on acceleration
  • Nick Land, "Circuitries", Pli 4:1/2 (1992), pp 217-235; repr. in Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, eds. Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier, Urbanomic, 2011, pp 289-318; repr. in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • Nick Land, "Meltdown", Abstract Culture 1, Coventry: CCRU, 1997, [10]; repr. in Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, eds. Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier, Urbanomic, 2011, pp 441-459. [11]. First presented at Virtual Futures, Warwick University, May 1994.
  • Nick Land, Sadie Plant, "Cyberpositive", in Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a Contaminated Culture, ed. Matthew Fuller, 1994; repr. in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • Iain Hamilton Grant, "Los Angeles 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis (Some Realist Notes on Blade Runner and the Postmodern Condition)" [1997]; printed as "LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis" in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • CCRU, "Cybernetic Culture"; repr. in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • CCRU, "Swarmachines", Abstract Culture 1, Coventry: CCRU, 1997, [12]; repr. in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.

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