http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=346
"The new realist and materialist philosophy and the new political theory which it explicitly inspired, assert that reality can be known and that change is possible. Rather than spell out here what this entails in the various currents of thought that range from New Materialism via Speculative Realism to Accelerationism, I would like to look at the discursive framework and background information that have led to their engagement with the scientific and (financial-) economic phenomena that characterize the early twenty-first century. Yet these phenomena are largely ignored in the everyday academic life of the humanities, marked for decades now by a conservative philologism and a politically motivated, yet nonetheless vague and inert theoretical relativism—the legacy of ’68. In its various guises..." http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/supercoversations-day-58-mohammad-salemy-responds-to-aaron-schuster-you-cant-ask-everyone-to-behave-ethically-just-like-that/ "What is wrong with these often repeated criticisms is that they measure Accelerationism with a historical stick inherited from the 20th century. They miss its philosophical basis rooted in the way a group of thinkers, defined under the umbrella term of speculative realism, broke with dominant philosophical norms in the past decade and paved the way for the development of what by now should be properly called Left Accelerationism (#LA)." http://tripleampersand.org/speculative-realism-accelerationism-and-the-in-between/ "...the philosophical, political, and anthropological accounts of why and how the academic mainstream tries to reject, suppress and at the same time, recuperate the discourse of accelerationism, and what actions or inactions by those involved in the discourse contribute to the success or failure of these strategies..." http://www.ultra-com.org/project/swoosh/ "Essentially, the happy accelerationist is a health goth minus the goth, envisioning a sleek future without the ambiguous, dark undertones of hyper-real dystopia—the swoosh is merely a fragment of our own bright inheritance, glimpsed from a distance. In the meantime, all we need to do is accelerate the very dynamics of automation currently underway, pairing them with social programs like universal basic income in order to soften the blow of labor redundancy and prefigure the cybernetic socialism of the future. The accelerationists at least avoid the cheap optimism of the Silicon Valley douchebag." http://deontologistics.tumblr.com/post/91953882443/so-accelerationism-whats-all-that-about "I will point out an important symmetry between the left-accelerationist views of those like myself, and what are increasingly being referred to as the 'right-accelerationist’ views of those like Land. We agree on this much: modernity and capitalism are ultimately incompatible. We disagree on which one should/will go..." https://blog.urbanomic.com/cyclon/archives/2012/11/abducting_the_o.html "...acceleration as a vector of epistemic mediation or global navigation of concept-spaces which is basically operates as an alternative to ultra-normative approaches to epistemology. A form of metisocratic production of knowledge and manipulative abductive inference. [...] Also at the same time, warning against metaphysically inflating the gestural constitution of acceleration as a mode of epistemic mediation into a vapid form of enactivism." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KZVnoRWUc "Art and Reason – How Art Thinks II" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2AWQ-mvYxs "Art and Reason – How Art Thinks" _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
