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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the fourth session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him right now. Okay thanks for that. I think that my intro this week probably will be perfunctory even by my standards. So in the in the schoolroom I put a reference to some Burnt Barrett materials…

• 00:20:56

  hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear just it built into their physiology and and their written language is completely divorced from their spoken language and is in the movie based upon these rings complicated rings…

• 00:50:38

  Then I think the problem becomes a spiral. You know, it's like you, in going around this, this circuit, there is a dynamism to the relationship between the two poles of the question, that is not at all reflected by this notion of them as being simply two different perspectives on this, on this same basis. It's just…

• 01:13:27

  But, yeah, I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on that. It's obvious, like, Kant's Christianity. But... Yes. I mean, look, the whole history, we could obviously do this whole course, and partially, maybe a little bit, are doing it in these terms, you know, of the history of European Christianity equals the history…

• 01:34:37

  Sorry, my problem here, which I should have picked up before, actually, is that I'm not very... I'm happy with the notion of a transcendental object. Right. You know, I'm not sure I actually quite get what's said by that expression. Because obviously the transcendental emerges with the rift between the object…

• 01:54:39

  social ecological issues because it has to be purely to survive and perpetuate itself but as soon as it actually becomes a an extrinsic goal a goal that can not be defined or reformulated purely in the optimum path of its own self escalation then then it is departing from the accelerationist assumption…

• 02:25:30

  and the autonomy of capitalism is something that's completely rigorously definable which is just whether you to to what extent can you do these capital production circuits uh with minimal human involvement you know and everything we talk about as the history of automation is about that on one level isn't it i mean…

• 02:49:32

  So, you know, I, as always, owe you guys some structure. But I'll make this question part of it for sure. As one of the things we need to talk about next week. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks, everybody. Yeah. Hope to see you all next week. And have a good week. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.