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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the fifth session of the concept of acceleration. I'm going to pass the mic off to Nick Land right now. Thanks Theo and thanks everyone for being here. So as I was just saying to people, I think that I'm thinking of this as being the first of a two-week block on the trough phase of our current…

• 00:22:22

  the the Trump oclips but it i think gives some weird preliminary reverberations in relation to that where he says the technology slowdown threatens not just our financial markets but the entire modern political order which is predicated on easy and relentless growth the give and take of Western democracies depends…

• 00:46:30

  Thiel just seems to invert that. And you know, he's trying to do that by making it a kind of a separability of markets and capitalism. And it says that markets are basically there to wreck capitalism. And you want to save it. He wants to save capitalism from free markets, which is a kind of really off, I won't…

• 01:07:20

  You know, like if you're cynical about the state, and maybe there are people who want to defend the notion of the altruistic state, but if you don't accept that, then obviously this entitlement spending is about political positioning. You know, it's the use of state resources for political advantage, and that would…

• 01:29:29

  If anybody wants to pick up that piece, it's kind of fun. Yeah. I mean, Ted Kaksinsti is obviously the example. I mean, I guess clearly not a movement. But it's the fact that he has to act purely in this through this kind of Dada terrorism is a sign that he lacks a movement. But the program definitely seems…

• 01:54:50

  solution is to that problem isn't this the same sort of problem of trying to measure the alleged stagnation in the first place because I mean how do you how do you decide whether there has been stagnation yeah I mean you know you feel has his you know we was it we wanted flying cars but we got 140 characters…

• 02:14:50

  He's reasserted the need for state leadership of the economy. So I think you're probably right that the very size of China and its kind of contradictory traditions are going to be a problem in this sense. Yeah. Yeah. But there definitely is at the moment, even in the mainland, a vastly more religious – Yeah. Yeah. –…

• 02:38:42

  Bust a blood vessel if they don't if they don't make now Okay, I'm gonna take that as a I'm gonna take that as a Compliance there so so thanks everybody and and yeah, hope to see you all next next Sunday sounds good everyone but you