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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the third session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to hand the mic off to him now. Thanks, Theo, that's great. Well for today I was hoping to build on last week's discussion of the Manifesto for Accelerationist Politics and look at some more recent left accelerationist…

• 00:29:46

  There is no reference. There is no reference to any transcendent source or authority or criterion of those values other than their function in that circuit. So machinic closure, cybernetic closure, nihilism, abstract techno-capital, all coincident on this. And pose the question that I'm going to be asking later…

• 00:58:27

  We, we just, we use the term abominations loosely, but these are these, um, what did you think of like New Jersey or something like that? No, no, no, no, no, more so the Caribbean, more so that the process of acceleration began during the enlightenment, especially with the formation of liberal markets. Um, this…

• 01:32:30

  I mean, isn't this the paradox of the left accelerationist project is that they call for this diagramming and mapping and never produce any diagrams or maps to speak of, just manifestos. I mean, like, it's, I read the manifesto, I say, great, let's see it. And then that next step never happens. So I wonder about…

• 01:55:07

  I think if you wanna talk about discounting what xenofeminism is doing, you need to hit it on its trans politics platform, rather than just kind of feminism in general. But I'm kind of, I suppose, working towards, I guess, an outer part of the spectrum in relation to xenofeminism. Universalist claims in there, I'm…

• 02:19:48

  But it doesn't seem to be. Well, maybe only because it's happened in the past. Like there are sort of these epochs in human history where these new models come about that, you know, lead to a complete paradigm shift. It's happened before. We don't fully understand the logic according to which that happens. Although, I…

• 02:43:51

  I don't know maybe it's just like maybe I'm erroneously putting too much on like capitalism or or or putting it against other things but I don't think. I don't think capitalism necessarily operates that way it's usually other forces outside of capitalism that push for there to be some sort of. Regulation or some sort…

• 03:07:40

  Spartan about that? Would you prefer half an hour? Or almost 15 minutes? I think 15 minutes should be enough. Okay. And then, yeah, we can start at 10.15 if that's all right with everyone else. Okay, cool. Thanks everybody so much. And I'm sorry to sort of be zoning out of this and I hope to talk to you all next week…