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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the sixth session of the concept of acceleration with McLean. I'm going to pass the mic to him right now. Thanks Theodore. So just in terms of where we are, this is our second stagnationism week and then we, assuming that we're allowed to continue, then we move on to a couple of weeks on upswing…

• 00:20:52

  And I think if we sort of broaden this out to people who aren't, you know, who aren't necessarily remotely attached to the specifics of Marx's economic theory, I think we can still see that this claim that perhaps modernity as a whole is dominated by a fundamental vector towards equilibrium is something close…

• 00:34:37

  You know... where he's really got... a... his curve... a kind of... accelerant... phase... that he doesn't... have to... have to... have to... have to... analyze... that he basically seems to think... finished... um... let me get one that's neat... but I think in the 1970s... and... and then... has just... he draws…

• 00:51:55

  And so this is, again, something that I think cuts across left and right. If you take it with sufficient abstraction, you know, that fundamental model that your argument proceeds that this, this and this leads to stagnation and thus implicitly we should not be doing this, this and this, but instead something else. And…

• 01:05:42

  Like it no longer really makes sense from an economics perspective to say that technology is something other than like the process of coordinating production and consumption, because it's that coordination itself, which is like most particularly undergoing upheaval in its relationship to other technologies. Yes, I…

• 01:19:34

  information technology is an absolute monster of deflation and you know and it it's really that i i think i've seen i think it was uh allergy string of acid made this point where he says look you know we think that we're in an era of of economic moderation of you know because we have slight inflation he says that's…

• 01:50:36

  I mean it's obviously left as a bit of a cipher isn't it I mean I think probably necessarily because you know if over man was predictable then it would be something that was already kind of folded in principle into this horizon of anthropological conception and I think that's probably precisely what he doesn't want…

• 02:13:52

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