People have often insisted — T.E. Lawrence is no exception — on the kinetic dimensions of politics and war as a strategic counterpoint to a quantitative concept of relations of force. That’s the typical guerrilla perspective as opposed to the […]
In recent months I’ve remained quiet about the speculative turn, mostly because I’m reticent to rekindle the “Internet war” that broke out a couple of years ago mostly on blogs but also in various published papers. And while I’ve taught
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times. ― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
Lapo Berti: … I have already said how I was struck by the lack of analysis of the Accelerationist hypothesis. I also want to stress that this is the least Marxian, if not the most anti-Marxian, conduct. According to Marx the
Accelerated Fantasies (Lapo Berti)
Nicholas A. Knouf weist in seinem lesenswerten Buch How Noise Matters to Finance zuallererst auf die traditionellen Vorstellungen über den Aktienmarkt hin, man denke an die Steuerung des Marktes durch die berühmte unsichtbare Hand, an die Träume vom Gleichgewicht, Transparenz,
Bemerkungen zu “How Noise Matters to Finance”
As the nascent rise of a populist right in Western Europe and North America has made clear, left-leaning politics have been unable to channel the anti-establishment impulses of the most socio-economically marginalized into a sort of grounded (yet, importantly, non-totalizing)
Locating the Alt-Right: Nick Land’s Romantic Irrationalism as Critical Delirium
Alfie Bown: Your book is just 77 pages long but your project and its scope is huge. Your aim has been to recover Deleuze from those who saw him as the philosopher of “joyous affirmation” and who experienced his work
“Sensory language leaves us with no habit for lying. We are hostile aliens, immune from dying.” – The Spaceape If accelerationism has a key idea, it is that it is either impossible or undesirable to resist or negate the development
The essay moves from the conceptual place where the “philosophical plane faces the chaos” (Deleuze-Guattari/1991). From a deep distance trapped in the past and the discretion of the dawn, a different thought and a different culture (re)emerge. The book presents
Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus
…Covenant technology? That’s the fusion of covenant theology and the will to technology as the essence of the American Republic, from its religious origins to its technocratic future. Here we are in the presence of a momentous alliance of two
Arthur Kroker: BORN AGAIN IDEOLOGY Religion, Technology, and Terrorism
FASTER/SLOWER/FUTURE The Road to Post-Capitalism Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium 22-23 October, 2016 Introduction The Terminator is, after all, by now probably the most clichéd image for accelerationism and the debate over accelerationism. So, partly due to nostalgia, partly to perversity, I
The present writing was drafted and read by Obsolete Capitalism on the occasion of the ninth International Conference of Deleuze Studies in Rome last July 2016 at the department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts of Roma Tre University. The
Deleuze and the Algorithm of the Revolution