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• 00:00:00

  Okay, so I'm Alex, and this is the second part of the anti-accelerationism hour, as it were. This is my paper, Economics Noir. What I'm going to attempt to do, I don't really want to be a Yabu kind of polemic too much. You hear it a lot from people, for example, Zizek, who's got his famous story where he kind…

• 00:05:03

  There's Jamie Peck, who's a geographer. A lot of the geographers do great stuff on this. And there's Rachel Turner's book on neoliberal ideology, all of which are really interesting works. And what they tend to suggest is that there is a real plurality in neoliberalism in terms of approaches, in terms of discourses…

• 00:09:38

  In fact, capitalism is a bad thing. What we need is markets. And you see this quite strongly in their kind of very boldly anti-monopoly. They're against monopolies in the market, but for the sake of the market, and so forth. You've got... In neoclassical economics, you've got cybernetics, which was a huge influence…

• 00:14:28

  I've seen them before and so on. These people, and Murawski shows extensively, admitted as much in their texts. Okay, so then we have coming in about post-war period, we have skipping over the second one where he talks about thermodynamics. We had this idea of cyborg science. Now what happens here is instead…

• 00:19:48

  And if you search for Hayek accelerationism, you get an example of the kind of discourse that he was doing. He was talking about the economy as a system of flows. These flows were stopped, you know, cancelled. And, you know, the worst things that possibly cancelled these flows of capital were the government…

• 00:24:34

  And, most importantly, it's kind of monopolised. There's a monopoly of control. Okay. What have we got coming up next? Now, we move to de Landa. And here's what I'm calling invisible neoliberalism. Now, I actually like de Landa quite a bit. And, in many ways, it's that thing called uncanny valley, where…

• 00:29:30

  And they'll always say, well, actually, that wasn't capitalistic enough, you know, the market wasn't... There were certain state interventions. No, we just all actually let it be. Then everything would kind of, like, kind of work out. And, you know, as I said, I do like de Lander, but sometimes when you read this…

• 00:34:49

  And so I think, like, in political terms, it's really interesting to read this guy, but, but we need to kind of be conscious of, of the proximity of his ideas to certain neoliberal ideas of information and organization. And in addition, uh, and in whilst he'll take some of the ideas on board. Okay? Thanks.