On 06/05/16 03:46 AM, Przemyslaw Sanecki wrote: > Hi everybody, Hi!
> from /#ACCELERATE (2013,Williams+Srnicek): > > / > > 03.1 (...) an accelerationist politics seeks to preserve the gains > of late capitalism while going further than its value system, > governance structures, and mass pathologies will allow. > > > Although, this fragment casts some light on it: > > 03.9 (...) the Left must take advantages of every technological and > scientific advance made possible by capitalist society. (...) social > network analysis, agent-based modelling, big data analytics, and > non-equilibrium economic models (...). The accelarationist Left must > become literate in [technical] fields. > They also quote Lenin: "Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering based on the latest discoveries of modern science. [...]" and say that: "5. Accelerationists want to unleash latent productive forces. In this project, the material platform of neoliberalism does not need to be destroyed. It needs to be repurposed towards common ends. The existing infrastructure is not a capitalist stage to be smashed, but a springboard to launch towards post-capitalism." > I hardly can see anything should be preserved and is intrinsically > capitalist gain. What are capitalist gains? I quite blind when comes > to acknowledge them. The gross scientific, infrastructural and technological production that has not been prevented under current-phase capitalism. All to be "repurposed towards common ends" rather than continuing to reproduce capitalism. I can easily see a socialist objection that these forms are the result of distorted social relations and that post-capitalist production would take very different forms without those distortions. But these are resources that could be used to *get* there. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
