NCCP 700-216 - The Concept of Acceleration, Session II

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• 00:00:00

  Hi and welcome to the second session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him right now. Thanks, thanks Dido. And I'm sorry for having been so utterly humiliated by Pacific Daylight saving time. I sort of understood and then I managed to just get myself screwed up about…

• 00:21:35

  Um. And. The. Okay. Sorry. The. Because this is immediately bleeding into next thing I should probably let it bleed straight into the next thing. Because. Um. The the the type of construction of agency that is necessary for the MAP to work at what seems to be it's it's it's political intent requires a certain control…

• 00:42:32

  You... You... It's inversely, uh... I'm saying that... that... that there was... that the notion that the future is less ontologically settled than the past is transcendentally unsustainable position. It's a... It's a metaphysics of time in a strict critical... critical sense. And it's convenient for political…

• 01:11:25

  Yeah. They've got a whole thing about these annihilations. So it starts definitely with this sense of absolute, yes, the sort of apocalyptic content of the trajectory that we're on, which I guess sets then the political problem that the MAP is setting itself. Yeah. And I think that's really interesting. I mean…

• 01:30:47

  You know? So we're... We're seeing a... We're seeing a convergent wave. And that's why we can... We're back to this question of prediction. This is why we can predict or even prophesy... Certain historical patterns. Is because... Because it's the convergent wave that's the convergent wave. So it's the convergent wave…

• 01:53:03

  about well what's this minimal sensible definition of of acceleration and the minimal sensible definition of acceleration that everyone accepts is completely uncontroversial is as let me just get it completely completely right hear hear hear derivation of position, isn't it? Like, velocity is the first derivative…

• 02:14:15

  So you can consistently allocate productivity across the labor supply of necessity. It's kind of just a mathematical operation that's taking place. And the sort of suggestion that maybe there's something a bit weird about the operation comes in like, Jay, who had this whole series of interesting tweets about this…

• 02:43:06

  for that and i will now i now understand the whole thing and i'll be on time okay sounds great yeah okay and i'm and i'm sorry that the syllabus is just appearing in these little bits i'll try and stay a couple slowly expand and get some more stuff in so we're a few more weeks ahead with that that sounds sounds…