[D66] Return to a Vanished Origin

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De Nacht van Schmelzer, de verdwenen oorsprong die geen oorsprong was.
Eigenlijk ben ik wel helemaal klaar met de vorige eeuw, en de gedachte
dat alleen een deleuziaanse vluchtlijn van mystieke trotskisten en
andere 'renegaten' ons nog door de 21ste kan loodsen...  Bij de NS
hebben ze de tienertoer, bij D66 hebben ze nu de groeitoer alias
tumortoer. Nederland is nog niet genoeg verziekt, meer commodities, meer
milieuverontreiniging, meer shit, meer CO2, meer uitbuiting, meer
oorlog, meer GGZ. Een carcinogene acceleratie waar alleen nog de
iatrokapitalisten en andere sadisten nog van staan de juichen.  Welke
capitalofiele lobbyisten zouden D66 deze groeiagenda hebben gedicteerd?

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Malign Velocities
Accelerationism and Capitalism
Against the need for speed, Malign Velocities tracks acceleration as the
symptom of the ongoing crises of capitalism.

  * Benjamin Noys <http://www.zero-books.net/authors/benjamin-noys>

We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand
that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume
more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here:
of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the
increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should
embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, "Malign
Velocities" tracks this 'accelerationism' as the symptom of the misery
and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical
moments of accelerationism - the Italian Futurism; communist
accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the 'cyberpunk phuturism'
of the ’90s and ’00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with
machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of
crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism - suggests
the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage, negate,
and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures
of speed.
REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS

  * Always deterritorialize! Or so goes the mantra of recent
    "accelerationist" theory. Intoxication against intoxication,
    schizophrenia against schizophrenia, delirium against delirium--the
    accelerationist tendencies of millennial life are laid bare in this
    concise volume by the author who first suggested the term. From the
    historical avant-garde, through Detroit techno and science fiction,
    to Nick Land and the Cybernetic Cultures Research Unit (CCRU),
    Benjamin Noys reveals the ideological fantasies of speed. We should
    dismiss accelerationism for its capitalophilia, he concludes, but
    preserve it for its extremism: go far, go deep and go negative to
    get real./~ Alexander R. Galloway/
  * 'The notion that 'the worse, the better' has an obvious appeal to
    disempowered communists in a time of capitalist crisis. Malign
    Velocities steps in and registers the futurist thrill of those
    theorists who would arrive at communism via an advanced, high tech
    capitalism - and registers the often disastrous results of these
    'accelerations', which took us more often to Stalinism or
    neoliberalism than to utopia. Noys' writing is erudite, clear, and
    coloured by the darkest humour'/~ Owen Hatherley, author Militant
    Modernism, Zero Books 2009/
  * In the midst of a hair-shirt neoliberalism, with growth-rates
    stagnating and accumulation reliant on ever-deeper dispossession,
    the sirens of speed are once again luring the advocates of radical
    theory. Malign Velocities diagnoses the moment of 'accelerationism'
    with exacting lucidity, revisiting prior iterations of the idea of
    an excessive exit from the clutches of capital – from futurism to
    cyberpunk – and uncovering these theories' political-economic
    unconscious, the accelerationist's fantasy of labour. Noys's book is
    a model of dialectical critique, combining a sophisticated account
    of accelerationism's historical conditions of possibility with an
    incisive verdict about its incapacity to generate strategies
    adequate to this conjuncture of crisis. Malign Velocities succeeds
    in both being true to the materialist injunction not to tell oneself
    stories and in weaving an engrossing tale of theory's struggles with
    the limits and compulsions of capitalism. ​
    /~ Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, and
    author of "Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea"/






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