Accelerate The Accelerationist Reader II 3 4

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• 00:00:00

  Can you mute yourself after you start? Yeah. Until you're ready to speak? Okay. Okay, welcome to the second to the last meeting of Accelerate II, and we're coming here from Grand Rapids, Michigan. And sorry, I'm just going to mute Robert here for a minute. Getting a little bit of sound from that. So we're coming here…

• 00:24:42

  But if the proletariat and the bourgeoisie are, um, temporally framed, uh, modes of existence or subjectivity, then in, you know, in an earlier time of, uh, of, of feudal economy, or a later time of communist economy, we would see totally different forms of human nature. So, um, I personally have read Marx…

• 00:49:25

  Language, memory, population, planning, and communications. And that the effect of this, one of the effects of this is the postmodern condition that we live in. If you've read the postmodern condition you know that one of the central aspects of that is the collapse of grand narratives. One of which would obviously…

• 01:08:52

  Yeah, something like that. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. As opposed to, and that goes back to Marx's division of, you know, the organic and technological world. Right. And the idea of being here to break down those distinctions. And in the process of breaking down those distinctions you actually increase, you actually…

• 01:30:03

  Since capital will transform into its opposite, whether it be socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it. So thus, I guess, I mean, that's my brief, really brief summary. I can pose a few questions. I have my own questions about Fischer's piece, criticisms, I don't know how I'm going to go about it. Yeah…

• 01:51:49

  Go ahead, Amy. I can come back in after you. Please go ahead. You finish what you're going to say. I'll talk after you. Okay. So just basically what I was going to say was I think it is actually pretty accurate that at least as far as I understand Nick Land, particularly in those writings, the whole, the fundamental…

• 02:15:51

  From like a technological colonial power that's being used to... To be used to... To be used to... To be used to... To be used to... To be used to... To be used to... To be used to... in Terminator. Any other reflections on Terminator, like the visual side of it or the narrative part of it? In relation…

• 02:39:22

  Cool. Thank you. Okay. Well, thanks a lot, everybody. We'll see you soon. Thank you. Bye. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.