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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?<br>
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<div style="font-size:42px; color:gray; line-height:42px">Malign
Velocities</div>
<div style="font-size:18px; line-height:22px; margin-top:5px">Accelerationism
and Capitalism</div>
<div style="font-size:22px; line-height:26px; color:#2985b4;
margin-top:50px">Against the need for speed, Malign Velocities
tracks acceleration as the symptom of the ongoing crises of
capitalism.</div>
<ul class="auth-grid">
<li><a href="http://www.zero-books.net/authors/benjamin-noys"><img
shrinktofit="true"
src="cid:part1.02020804.02030100@ziggo.nl"
style="border:0px; float:left; padding-right:10px;
height:30px">Benjamin Noys</a></li>
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<span style="font-size:14px; line-height:22px">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.</span>
<div style="border-top:1px solid gray; margin-top:20px"><span
style="color:gray; font-size:16px">REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS</span><br>
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<li style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px">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.<i> ~
Alexander R. Galloway</i></li>
<li style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px">'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'<i> ~ Owen Hatherley,
author Militant Modernism, Zero Books 2009</i></li>
<li style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px">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. <br>
<i> ~ Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths,
and author of "Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea"</i></li>
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