(Session 3) Nick Srnicek

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• 00:00:00

  So I guess I'll try to make sort of what appears to be the hard argument for accelerationism. The name of my paper is Accelerationist Critique of Neoliberalism. So the question of assessing accelerationism, I want to argue, has too often been posed poorly. The typical critique of it is aligned accelerationism with…

• 00:01:50

  So in this paper, I want to take up the latter option. My argument is basically that financial capital has now irreversibly restructured the capitalist system, My argument is basically that financial capital has now irreversibly restructured the capitalist system. any critical attempt to think it must take into…

• 00:03:38

  Consequently, the financial elite managed to shape policy and regulatory frameworks to their own advantage. Finally, fourthly, and most obviously, finance has altered the economy at the global level, with a tremendous size and power of the financial markets now dwarfing the rest of the world economy. So by mid-2008…

• 00:05:55

  To use Deleuze and Guetterie's terms, it's a contingent history. So today, every major firm is oriented towards this goal of maximizing capitalization. The unique form of capitalist valorization is no longer the commodity, but instead capitalization. While things like the environment, international conflict, DNA…

• 00:07:44

  This manipulation is not possible in a competitive market, though. With too many competitors, individual firms have too small of a market share to make any significant difference. So, in order to manipulate the percentage of the market share, and the perception of future earnings, firms have a structural incentive…

• 00:10:08

  Rather than unbound vectors of deterritorialization, capitalist flows are instead closely regulated systems of power. So this neoliberal re-territorialization of capitalist flows occurs through at least two primary means. There is, many more I'm sure, but these are two that I've noted. So the first is the suppression…

• 00:12:20

  On every level, neoliberalism emerges as a reflection of the accelerationist tendencies of capitalism. So in this situation, accelerationism is politically progressive, insofar as it attacks the organizations of such an economy. Does this mean accelerationism is the route to post-capitalism? Here we think we need…

• 00:15:04

  So these two types of accelerationism are vastly different. One is political and human oriented, a weapon wielded to tear down massive systems of centralized control. The other is speculative and inhuman, a process of decomposition undertaken by molecular forces rather than by molar subjects. So to mistake the former…