
#Accelerate
The Accelerationist Reader
$66.85
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2014
Summary
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 detourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.
#Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780957529557 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0957529554 |
| Author: | Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian, Karl Marx, Samuel Butler, Nicolai Federov, Thorstein Veblen, Shulamith Firestone, Jacques Camatte |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 177mm x 116mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic |
What They're Saying
Critics 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.
—J.J. Charlesworth, ArtReviewAbout The Author
Robin Mackay
Authors
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 including The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy, and Soft Subversions.
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit was a name on a door in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University, UK, during the late 1990s. It was a rogue unit, blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi, and music journalism. Its frenzied interdisciplinary activity, including the Virtual Futures and Virotechnology conferences and the journal Abstract Culture, disturbed Warwick’s Philosophy Department, resulting in the termination of the unit.
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, 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.
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