#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0957529554 ISBN 13: 9780957529557

Casa editrice: Urbanomic, 2014

Riassunto

An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.

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.

#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 CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) 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 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.

At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of “reasonable” contemporary political alternatives.

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Recensione:

An engaging, eccentric anthology...it s refreshing to encounter a left project for the future that wants to reclaim the idea of technology, industry and planet-scale thinking. --ArtReview

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• Editore: Urbanomic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0957529554
• ISBN 13: 9780957529557
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Mackay Robin, Avanessian Armen