#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (Urbanomic) - Softcover

Robin Mackay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957529554 ISBN 13: 9780957529557

Publisher: Urbanomic, 2014

Synopsis

Since the 2013 appearance of the Manifesto for Accelerationist Politics , the term accelerationism has been adopted to name a set of new attempts to conceptualise non-capitalist futures outside of traditional marxist critiques and regressive or restorative solutions a new politics that is invested in grasping complexity, abstraction and futurity for its own ends, not ceding them to the enemy.
#Accelerate constructs a genealogy of accelerationism,calling attention to early anticipations of accelerationism, and presenting new essays that document the emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of capitalist realism , and retooled for the twenty-žrst century.
Contributing to the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed term, #Accelerate opens 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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Review:

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

About the Author:

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. He published 25 books, including five in collaboration with Felix Guattari. Felix Guattari (1930-1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy, and Soft Subversions. Antonio Negri is a philosopher, essay writer, and teacher. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he has taught political science for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy, including Marx beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies, The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics (Semiotext(e)), and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth. Luciana Parisi is a Senior Lecturer and runs the MA program in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of "theory-fiction" with his book Cyclonopedia. (Urbanomic/Sequence Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0957529554
• ISBN 13: 9780957529557
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian