Days of Phuture Past:Accelerationism in the Present Moment

Benjamin Noys (2013)

Accelerate the Process

Classical Accelerationism

“impending human extinction becomes accessible as a dance floor.” Nick

Land

‘as if a tendril of tomorrow were burrowing back’

Machinic revolution must therefore go in the opposite direction to socialistic regulation; pressing towards ever more uninhibited marketization of the processes that are tearing down the social field, ‘still further’ with ‘the movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization’ and ‘one can never go far enough in the direction of deterritorialization: you haven’t seen anything yet’.• Nick Land

“neo-China arrives from the future.” Nick Land

Detroit: Techno City

“Today the automobile plants use robots and computers to make their cars. I’m more interested in Ford’s robots than Gordy’s

music.” Juan Atkins

Motown / Fordism Transmat / Post-Fordism

"During the greatest Holocaust the world has ever known, pregnant America-bound African slaves were thrown overboard by the thousands during labour for being sick and disruptive cargo. Is it possible that they could have given birth at sea to babies that never needed air? Are Drexciyans water-breathing aquatically mutated descendants of those unfortunate victims of human greed? Recent experiments have shown a premature human infant saved from certain death by breathing liquid oxygen through its underdeveloped lungs."

“factories are closing and people are drifting away” says derrick, “the old industrial detroit is falling

apart, the structures have collapsed. It’s the murder capital of america. six year olds carry guns and thousands of black people have stopped caring if

they ever work again. if you make music in that environment it can’t be straight music. in britain

you have new order, well our music is the new disorder.”

Contemporary Accelerationism

Footwork

High-Frequency Abstraction

Algorithmic Architecture

BibliographyDeleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1983..

Eshun, Kodwo, “Further Considerations of Afrofuturism,” CR: The New Centennial Review 3.2 (2003): 287−302.

Fisher, Mark. 2013a. “An Extract from Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life.” The Quietus. 24 Nov. 2013. http://thequietus.com/articles/13004-mark-fisher-ghosts-of-my-life-extract

Fisher, Mark. “Break It Down: Mark Fisher on DJ Rashad’s Double Cup.” Electronic Beats, 22 October 2013b.. http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/essays/mark-fisher-on-dj-rashads-double-cup/

Land, Nick. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007. Intro. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay. Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2013..

Cosgrove, Stuart. “Liner Notes to virgin’s compilation Techno! - the new dance sound of detroit.. http://www.ele-mental.org/ele_ment/said&did/techno_liner_notes.html

Moreno, Gean. “Editorial—“Accelerationist Aesthetics.” e-flux 46 (2013).http://www.e-flux.com/journal/editorial%e2%80%94%e2%80%9caccelerationist-aesthetics%e2%80%9d/

Parisi, Luciana. “The Holes in the Machine: An Interview with Luciana Parisi.” Nyx: A Noctournal 7: “Machines” (2012): 126−133.

BibliographyReynolds, Simon. Retromania. London: Faber & Faber, 2011.

Reynolds, Simon. “Introduction to the Hardcore Continuum.” The Wire 2013. http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-wire-300_simon-reynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction

Shaviro, Steven. “Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption.” e-flux 46. Web. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/accelerationist-aesthetics-necessary-inefficiency-in-times-of-real-subsumption/

Singleton, Benedict. “Maximum Jailbreak.” e-flux 46. 2013.http://www.e-flux.com/journal/maximum-jailbreak/

Srnicek, Nick, and Alex Williams. “On Cunning Automata: Financial Acceleration and the Limits of the Dromological.” Forthcoming in Collapse VIII (2013).

Toscano, Alberto. “Gaming the Plumbing: High-Frequency Trading and the Spaces of Capital.” Mute Magazine 3.4 (2012): http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/gaming-plumbing-high-frequency-trading-and-spaces-capital

Wilkins, Inigo & Bogdan Dragos. “Destructive Destruction? An Ecological Study of High Frequency Trading.” Mute Magazine 3.4 (2012): http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/destructive-destruction-ecological-study-high-frequency-trading#

Williams, Alex. “Back to the Future? Technopolitics and the legacy of the CCRU.” Berlin, 1 February 2013.Williams, Alex. “Escape Velocities.” e-flux 46. 2013. Web. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/escape-velocities/