Accelerate The Accelerationist Reader II 2 4

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: #Accelerate panels. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the second installment of Accelerate 2, the Accelerationist Reader. We're on the second part of our seminar now, dealing with this book and with the basic concepts within it. If anyone has any problem hearing me, please let me know and I'll make sure to turn up the volume or get a little closer…

• 00:22:50

  I've been involved with a project which is called Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative, which was started in Finland, for example, and they are like working along those lines, working with a parasite algorithm which manages to win at the stock market. I met the people in Milan at the Macao Social Center…

• 00:44:18

  so there is a great culture of sharing even open source software the people who do it don't really have a monetary impulse it's just then how to organize, how to get a large complex project working and Google can offer some really good advice on that they have a real tendency to release often release lots of changes…

• 01:21:28

  It's there's still. I'm agreeing with you, yeah. OK. OK. There's two actually opposing sentences, phrases here. Far from instrumentality extending authority, the efficiency of mastery is its undoing, since all efficiency is cybernetics. And cybernetics dissolves domination in mutant control. That's what Amy just said…

• 01:40:41

  The temporality in this text is really that of no future. I think Bruce Sterling had a really interesting point on this a couple weeks ago, where he basically said that cyberpunk is obsolete, because cyberpunk is empire today. And there's no difference, it's simply lived experience. And that the sort of no future…

• 02:03:15

  And this is Alex. Hi. Hi Alex. Hi. So either of you want to say anything about what you've read so far, or heard from today? It's a lot of pressure, but I did like the last speaker's point. I will be honest and say, this is all new to me. I came into this without any knowledge of really what accelerationism is. But…

• 02:21:24

  And the kind of arguments that Zizek got himself into with like post-structuralists like Julie Butler and all that. So, these are the things that I thought stood out for me in the CCRU piece. And what CCRU represents to me. If you want to like... If you want to like open the floor for the last 5-10 minutes and talk…

• 02:37:54

  And, yeah. So, I guess. See you guys. Bye. See you guys. Sunday. Thanks, Mark. Thank you. Stop the broadcast. Okay. I see... Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.