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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the seventh session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'll pass the mic and camera off to Nick. Okay, thanks for that, Leon. So I'm hoping that this is going to be, on one level it's going to be a block, our last little block. And we sort of promised last week that it was going…

• 00:28:13

  But it seems to me that one of the things that is very, very deeply embedded in the notion of democracy is a certain kind of procedural languor, you know, that, you know, to go through the proper democratic procedures, however they're conceived to do with consultation and certain types of feedback and, you know…

• 00:50:09

  Yeah. Presupposed field of consequences because like how we judge how we judge the consequences of things and like how we make this decision is like in a general way it's never been systematic like it's never been something that we have an integral process of how we do it. Like I mean that's the whole thing with…

• 01:10:03

  So your grease monkey in the, in the field is not being, they're not in the loop at all about the fact that this collective, collective social decision has made been made to let a town be bombed to pieces in the interest of the, of the greater good. And the reason for that is not exactly the same as the reasons…

• 01:34:54

  But like, how do you, you know, if you were to assume that, you know, the capitalist economy is to be superseded by something else, how do its future goals become set? You know, according to what? I mean, you know, at the moment, sure, you say, oh, you know, I would like more solar power, and, you know, there…

• 02:03:26

  contemporary interfaces Seem to have more an effect on that right Yes This was part of I think Jake's point too wasn't it I? Which I read when Jake was talking about it, and maybe I'm missing part of what? Jake's point laws that um The existence of these internet avatars is something just totally practical rather than…

• 02:33:00

  Like Anna Coulter is a really, she's really heralded by the alt-right and she embraces it. And I think she, she knows like the rhetorical tools that they're using and stuff. Like the vulgarity is like, it's crucial. It's like a farther, even farther right, right. Yeah. Yeah. And the media doesn't get it right either…

• 02:52:27

  Okay. Yeah I mean I thought this was a great discussion. To me it's sort of drifting a bit off our core topics but maybe what you guys decide to talk about is what's going to happen. So I definitely, I'm not going to try and shut the door on that if people want to carry on with this stuff. It's all been great…