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#ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader
Forthcoming: April 14, 2014
Editors: Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay
Paperback 115x175mm.
ISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7



/Co-published with Merve Verlag <https://www.merve.de/>/

/And of course we suffer, we the capitalized, but this does not mean
that we do not enjoy, nor that what you think you can offer us as a
remedy - for what? - does not disgust us, even more. We abhor
therapeutics and its vaseline, we prefer to burst under the quantitative
excesses that you judge the most stupid. /
- Jean-François Lyotard, /Libidinal Economy/

/We believe the most important division in today's left is between those
that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless
horizontalism, and those that outline what must become called an
accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction,
complexity, globality, and technology./
- Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, /#Accelerate/

Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the
insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not
to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and
exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.

The term was coined to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of
theory with the excess and abandon of capitalist culture, and the
associated performative aesthetic of texts that seek to become immanent
to the very process of alienation. Developing at the dawn of
contemporary neoliberal consensus, the uneasy status of this impulse,
between subversion and acquiescence, between theoretical purchase and
aesthetic enjoyment, constitutes the core problematic of accelerationism.

Since the 2013 publication of Williams's and Srnicek's /#Accelerate:
Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics/, the term has been adopted to
name a set of new theoretical enterprises that aim to conceptualise
non-capitalist futures outside of traditional marxist critiques and
regressive, decelerative or restorative solutions.

*#Accelerate* presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the
impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of
Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and anonymous units like CCRU and
SWITCH, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house,
/Terminator/ and /Bladerunner/) and back to its sources in delirious
post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic /jouissance/ would
later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic
establishment alike.

On either side of this largely unexplored central sequence, the book
includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own 'Prometheanism'
and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary
emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of
neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.

Contributing to the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed,
problematic term, *#ACCELERATE* presents a historical conversation about
futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and Kapital. This is a
legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today
by the poverty of 'reasonable' contemporary political alternatives.

Contents

*ANTICIPATIONS*
Karl Marx
/Fragment on Machines/
Samuel Butler
/The Book of The Machines/
Nikolai Fyodorov
/The Common Task/
Thorstein Veblen
/The Machine Process and the Natural Decay of the Business Enterprise/

*FERMENT*
Shulamith Firestone
/On the Two Modes of Cultural History/
Jacques Camatte
/Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity?/
Gilles Deleuze + Félix Guattari
/The Civilized Capitalist Machine/
Jean-François Lyotard
/Energumen Capitalism/
Gilles Lipovetsky
/Power of Repetition/
JG Ballard
/Fictions of All Kinds/

*CYBERCULTURE*
Nick Land
/Circuitries/
Nick Land + Sadie Plant
/Cyberpositive/
Iain Hamilton Grant
/LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis/
CCRU
/Cybernetic Culture/
CCRU
/Swarmachines/

*ACCELERATION*
Mark Fisher
/Terminator vs Avatar/
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
/#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics/
Antonio Negri
/Reflections on the Manifesto/
Tiziana Terranova
/Red Stack Attack!/
Luciana Parisi
/Automated Architecture/
Patricia Reed
/Seven Prescriptions for Accelerationism/
Reza Negarestani
/The Labour of the Inhuman (Extended Mix)/
Benedict Singleton
/Maximum Jailbreak (Extended Mix)/
Ray Brassier
/Prometheanism and its Critics/
Nick Land
/Teloplexy: Notes on Acceleration/
Diann Bauer
/4xAccelerationisms/



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