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<div id="title"> <span class="heading-large">#ACCELERATE: The
Accelerationist Reader</span> <br>
Forthcoming: April 14, 2014<br>
Editors: Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay<br>
Paperback 115x175mm. <br>
ISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7<br>
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<p class="content"> <i>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.
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- Jean-François Lyotard, <i>Libidinal Economy</i></p>
<p> <i>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.</i><br>
- Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, <i>#Accelerate</i></p>
<p> 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. </p>
<p> 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. </p>
<p> Since the 2013 publication of Williams's and Srnicek's <i>#Accelerate:
Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics</i>, 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.</p>
<p> <b>#Accelerate</b> 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, <i>Terminator</i> and <i>Bladerunner</i>) and
back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts
whose searing nihilistic <i>jouissance</i> would later be
disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic
establishment alike.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p> Contributing to the energetic contemporary debate around
this disputed, problematic term, <b>#ACCELERATE</b>
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. </p>
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<p class="heading">Contents</p>
<p class="listing"> <b>ANTICIPATIONS</b><br>
Karl Marx<br>
<i>Fragment on Machines</i><br>
Samuel Butler<br>
<i>The Book of The Machines</i><br>
Nikolai Fyodorov<br>
<i>The Common Task</i><br>
Thorstein Veblen<br>
<i>The Machine Process and the Natural Decay of the Business
Enterprise</i><br>
<br>
<b>FERMENT</b><br>
Shulamith Firestone<br>
<i>On the Two Modes of Cultural History</i><br>
Jacques Camatte<br>
<i>Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline
of Humanity?</i><br>
Gilles Deleuze + Félix Guattari<br>
<i>The Civilized Capitalist Machine</i><br>
Jean-François Lyotard<br>
<i>Energumen Capitalism</i><br>
Gilles Lipovetsky<br>
<i>Power of Repetition</i><br>
JG Ballard<br>
<i>Fictions of All Kinds</i><br>
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<b>CYBERCULTURE</b><br>
Nick Land<br>
<i>Circuitries</i><br>
Nick Land + Sadie Plant<br>
<i>Cyberpositive</i><br>
Iain Hamilton Grant<br>
<i>LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis</i><br>
CCRU<br>
<i>Cybernetic Culture</i><br>
CCRU<br>
<i>Swarmachines</i><br>
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<b>ACCELERATION</b><br>
Mark Fisher<br>
<i>Terminator vs Avatar</i><br>
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams<br>
<i>#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics</i><br>
Antonio Negri<br>
<i>Reflections on the Manifesto</i><br>
Tiziana Terranova<br>
<i>Red Stack Attack!</i><br>
Luciana Parisi<br>
<i>Automated Architecture</i><br>
Patricia Reed<br>
<i>Seven Prescriptions for Accelerationism</i><br>
Reza Negarestani<br>
<i>The Labour of the Inhuman (Extended Mix)</i><br>
Benedict Singleton<br>
<i>Maximum Jailbreak (Extended Mix)</i><br>
Ray Brassier<br>
<i>Prometheanism and its Critics</i><br>
Nick Land<br>
<i>Teloplexy: Notes on Acceleration</i><br>
Diann Bauer<br>
<i>4xAccelerationisms</i><br>
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