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Return of the M/acc: A Survey of Left Accelerationisms (Patreon)

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2020-11-09 02:41:04
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2021-10

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The long awaited L/acc episode is here!

What is ‘left accelerationism’? (Are there more than one?) How has capitalism changed and what implications does it hold for emancipatory politics? In this episode, we examine some of the  essential literature of L/acc, giving particular focus to Karl Marx’s “Fragment on Machines” from Grundrisse and Williams and Srnicek’s “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”. Figures also included in the discussion are Deleuze and Guattari, Nick Land, Mark Fisher, Tiqqun, and Andrew Culp.

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Anonymous

I have no idea how but this ep had the right touch on left accerlationism. Well done AH folks!

acidhorizonpodcast

My off the cuff answer is that if there is a teleological structure to the universe and it involves the function you’ve described, I’d have no problem calling it ‘acceleration’. Moreover, it would fit in with some definitions of acceleration that are already out there. That said, accelerationism as we’ve confronted it in the episode primarily involves going beyond the axiomatic of capital. How is this accomplished? This is the million dollar question. In the simplest terms, it means exceeding not only the speed but the plastic nature of capital by increasing its own tendencies. The proliferation of capital involves numerous regulatory mechanisms which keep it from spinning out of control; remove them and presumably you can implode the system of capital. For D&G, the emergence of capital involves a set of contingencies they believe all societies have at one point attempted to stave off. Now, those forces have been unleashed and the genie is not going back in the bottle. This genie furthermore is pursuing inexhaustible growth on a finite field.

acidhorizonpodcast

Also for D&G, axiomatic of capital is not predicated on ‘opposing’ forces. There are forces in an immanent sphere of relations which capital encodes with its axiom, uses up, and then moves on (deterritorialization and reterritorialization). We can think of capital as being algorithmic in some sense as it encodes forces to move in accordance with flows of other commodities.

Anonymous

deterritorialization and reterritorialization... If I remember correctly Jean Baudrilliards - Impossible Exchange is somewhat of a confirmation that there are no "opposing" forces , rather a one sided exchange with nothing, so within this I guess you deterritorialize and reterritorialize occurs, addressing the regulatory mechanisms constantly (which I would suggest are part of this territorializing)....Never thought of D&G in contest of Hegel so was just wondering...inclined to no 'opposoing' forces, last paragraph is very clear (in the strand of Howard T. Odum). Thank you Acid.

Clayne Zollinger III

re-listened to this one today. Ya'll had a great discussion. I do hope you come back and talk about some of the other texts you mentioned in the show but weren't able to get to sometime!