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"introduction", "period": "2010s", "people": ["robin-mackay"], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["accelerationism-branches-and-debates", "capital-meltdown-and-cybernetic-modernity", "virtual-futures-and-para-academia"]}, {"slug": "endgamers-history-of-accelerationism", "title": "Endgamers_ A History of Accelerationism - by Jacob Siegel", "url": "/records/endgamers-history-of-accelerationism", "summary": "Siegel's essay explains accelerationism as a response to perceived historical stasis, making the movement readable as a public narrative rather than an insider code.", "collection": "introductions", "sourceType": "introduction", "period": "2010s", "people": [], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["accelerationism-branches-and-debates", "capital-meltdown-and-cybernetic-modernity", "nick-land-after-warwick"]}, {"slug": "ccru-lecture-1", "title": "CCRU - Lecture 1", "url": "/records/ccru-lecture-1", "summary": "This lecture is one of the clearest beginner routes into the CCRU because it narrates the group's formation, membership, and legacy in plain explanatory prose.", "collection": "transcripts", "sourceType": "transcript", "period": "1990s", "people": ["nick-land"], "concepts": ["numogram", "hyperstition"], "sections": ["warwick-and-formation", "numogram-and-occult-numeracy", "theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle"]}, {"slug": "ray-brassier-mad-black-deleuzianism", "title": "Ray Brassier - Mad Black Deleuzianism; On Nick Land", "url": "/records/ray-brassier-mad-black-deleuzianism", "summary": "Ray Brassier's talk re-reads Nick Land and accelerationism through conceptual critique rather than blog-era legend.", "collection": "transcripts", "sourceType": "transcript", "period": "2010s", "people": ["ray-brassier", "nick-land"], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["brassier-grant-and-speculative-realism", "nick-land-before-the-break", "accelerationism-branches-and-debates"]}, {"slug": "ghost-lemurs-of-madagascar", "title": "Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar", "url": "/records/ghost-lemurs-of-madagascar", "summary": "This later interpretive episode is one of the clearest routes into CCRU hyperstition because it links the archive's weird style to nonlinear time, spectral residues, and failed evolutionary pathways.", "collection": "transcripts", "sourceType": "transcript", "period": "2020s", "people": ["mark-fisher"], "concepts": ["hyperstition", "lemurian-time-war"], "sections": ["lemurian-time-war-and-spiral-time", "hyperstition-and-fiction-making", "mark-fisher-and-public-theory"]}, {"slug": "unknown-lands-lecture-1", "title": "Unknown Lands - Lecture 1", "url": "/records/unknown-lands-lecture-1", "summary": "A lecture introduction that explains why Land is still studied, distinguishing early philosophical promise from later controversy and myth.", "collection": "transcripts", "sourceType": "transcript", "period": "2020s", "people": ["nick-land"], "concepts": ["hyperstition"], "sections": ["nick-land-before-the-break", "nick-land-after-warwick"]}, {"slug": "hyperstition-new-weird-1", "title": "Hyperstition & The New Weird I Entities and Worlds Genres and Climates 1 4", "url": "/records/hyperstition-new-weird-1", "summary": "This lecture clarifies hyperstition by tying it to storytelling, genre, and world-building rather than leaving it as an abstract slogan.", "collection": "transcripts", "sourceType": "transcript", "period": "2010s", "people": [], "concepts": ["hyperstition"], "sections": ["hyperstition-and-fiction-making", "control-virotechnics-and-swarm-systems", "theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle"]}, {"slug": "nick-land-fanged-noumena", "title": "nick-land-fanged-noumena-collected-writings-19872007-1.mobi", "url": "/records/nick-land-fanged-noumena", "summary": "This collected volume anchors Land's wider corpus, showing the spread from academic philosophy into theory-fiction, cyberculture writing, and occulted conceptual experiment.", "collection": "texts", "sourceType": "text", "period": "1987–2007", "people": ["nick-land"], "concepts": ["accelerationism", "numogram"], "sections": ["nick-land-before-the-break", "numogram-and-occult-numeracy", "capital-meltdown-and-cybernetic-modernity"]}, {"slug": "cybergothic", "title": "cybergothic.pdf", "url": "/records/cybergothic", "summary": "Cybergothic condenses a key CCRU style: philosophical claims arrive fused to science fiction, vampiric imagery, and arguments about capital's inhuman machinery.", "collection": "texts", "sourceType": "text", "period": "1990s", "people": ["nick-land", "sadie-plant"], "concepts": ["hyperstition"], "sections": ["theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle", "capital-meltdown-and-cybernetic-modernity", "hyperstition-and-fiction-making"]}, {"slug": "invaders-from-the-future", "title": "Invaders from the Future-The CCRU and Their Legacy.pdf", "url": "/records/invaders-from-the-future", "summary": "This course text presents the CCRU as a legacy problem, explaining why the archive became mythic and why it still attracts philosophical and aesthetic interest.", "collection": "texts", "sourceType": "text", "period": "2010s", "people": ["mark-fisher"], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["geotrauma-and-the-outside", "theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle", "reza-negarestani-and-inhumanism"]}, {"slug": "xenosystems-home", "title": "xenosystems.net (archived homepage)", "url": "/records/xenosystems-home", "summary": "The archived xenosystems homepage captures Nick Land's later public framing, where serial posting, reactionary politics, and the Outside sit side by side.", "collection": "web-archives", "sourceType": "web archive", "period": "2010s", "people": ["nick-land"], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["nick-land-after-warwick", "ai-basilisk-and-recursive-intelligence", "china-megacity-and-urban-futures"]}, {"slug": "ccru-net-home", "title": "ccru.net (archived homepage)", "url": "/records/ccru-net-home", "summary": "The archived ccru.net homepage shows the CCRU presenting itself as a designed cultural system rather than a neutral repository of documents.", "collection": "web-archives", "sourceType": "web archive", "period": "1990s", "people": ["nick-land", "sadie-plant"], "concepts": ["numogram", "hyperstition", "lemurian-time-war"], "sections": ["virtual-futures-and-para-academia", "numogram-and-occult-numeracy", "sonic-futures-and-audio-theory"]}, {"slug": "k-punk-home", "title": "k-punk.abstractdynamics.org (archived homepage)", "url": "/records/k-punk-home", "summary": "The archived k-punk homepage shows how Fisher translated CCRU-adjacent motifs into a public critical culture organized around politics, pedagogy, and serial blogging.", "collection": "web-archives", "sourceType": "web archive", "period": "2000s", "people": ["mark-fisher"], "concepts": ["accelerationism", "hyperstition"], "sections": ["mark-fisher-and-public-theory", "sonic-futures-and-audio-theory", "orphan-drift-and-experimental-practice"]}, {"slug": "land-ai-transcripts-note", "title": "2026-03-11-land-ai-transcripts.md", "url": "/records/land-ai-transcripts-note", "summary": "This project note shows the corpus becoming a research instrument, with transcript scoring used to sort Land-related and AI-related material for later curation.", "collection": "research-notes", "sourceType": "research note", "period": "2026", "people": [], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["ai-basilisk-and-recursive-intelligence", "control-virotechnics-and-swarm-systems", "nick-land-after-warwick"]}, {"slug": "accelerationism-scoring-note", "title": "2026-03-13-accelerationism-scoring.md", "url": "/records/accelerationism-scoring-note", "summary": "This session note documents an early attempt to identify the most useful introductory material on accelerationism across a large text corpus.", "collection": "research-notes", "sourceType": "research note", "period": "2026", "people": [], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["accelerationism-branches-and-debates", "ai-basilisk-and-recursive-intelligence"]}, {"slug": "accelerationism-text-scoring-note", "title": "2026-03-13-accelerationism-text-scoring.md", "url": "/records/accelerationism-text-scoring-note", "summary": "This text-scoring note makes the archive's introductory pathway explicit by ranking candidate readings for clarity, breadth, and explanatory value.", "collection": "research-notes", "sourceType": "research note", "period": "2026", "people": [], "concepts": ["accelerationism"], "sections": ["accelerationism-branches-and-debates", "reza-negarestani-and-inhumanism"]}]