As a transhumanist, Kurzweil argues that computational devices, particularly those of AI, continue the trend of natural evolution toward the production of ordered information patterns. Whereas the orderliness of natural information processing systems is measured by whether the behavior is […]
Acceleration and Catastrophe – Schismogenesis (Deleuze/Guattari) vs. Death Metaphysics (Nick Land).
Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. The mostly talented and best trained soviet engineers set
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
There is a major difference between what is now called ‘accelerationism’ and its utopian futurist influences from the early 20th century: whether human reason is powerful enough to not only overcome the conditions of capitalism but ultimately the biological limits
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
On the Anti-City: I think it’s a form of desire for inertia, desire for ubiquity, instantaneousness – a will to reduce the world to a single place, a single identity. – Paul Verilio, Pure War We’ve passed through the looking
For Paul Virilio the last remaining defense against the crumbling world economy is to abandon the ship, lift our heads to the sky and join in the exurbanist future of the Ultracity. In that short book The Futurism of the
Paul Virilio: The Propaganda of a Growing Disaster
«Zarathustra is only speeds and slownesses, and the eternal return, the life of the eternal return, is the first great concrete freeing of nonpulsed time.» Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 1987, A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and schizophrenia. by Brian Massumi
In this latter sense, logistics indexes the subordination of production to the conditions of circulation, the becoming-hegemonic of those aspects of the production process that involve circulation. In the idealised world-picture of logistics, manufacture is merely one moment in a
Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect
Emilia Marra PROCESSO A MOOSBRUGGER CONSIDERAZIONI SULLA VITA IMPERSONALE … I will introduce the character of Moosbrugger, one of the most famous Robert Musil’s lonely planet in his own Nietzschean solar system. I would like to show here that this
Reflecting on the last thirty years of techno music, I am not alone thinking that it has decelerated. By deceleration, I mean that since the 1980s the beat per minutes of techno music – which varies, usually, between 120 and
Has Techno Decelerated? On Technoculture, Acceleration and Breaks
…So, for me, I think secrecy is absolutely important. And yes, this goes against certain democracy theories and certain social-democratic approaches to Marx’s politics, but there have been a lot of communists who have operated in secrecy. There are 9th
In the past few years both the political Left and Right of the current global machine, the “Establishment” now dictates who will be included or excluded from their dominion. Whatever the hell that is? Ah, yes, it always comes down to this bugaboo…
The Automatic Society: Technics, Memory, and Capitalism
Abschweifende bis ketzerische Bemerkungen zur Konferenz “Entwerfen” in Frankfurt Wissenschaftler wissen längst, dass der “wahre” Kongress oftmals außerhalb ebendiesem stattfindet: in den Vortragspausen und auf den Gängen, beim gemeinsamen Frühstück und während des Abendprogramms. Auf die “Internationale Konferenz Entwerfen” (alternativer
Deleuze und Hannelore (Elsner) tanzten Clickhop