The Concept of Acceleration (Session 1)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the first session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Thanks Theodore. So I'll start by hopefully launching a few discussion points. And then obviously we can move into a kind of interactive mode. If people urgently want to interrupt me, that's…

• 00:25:49

  Actually, I think, cryptically very ambiguous. And with a lot of internal ideological tension. You know, notions like democracy, equality. Again, to repeat, flatness. This kind of language that is on the one hand tied up with a kind of liberal capitalist dynamic. And on the other hand, becomes taken up into…

• 00:43:43

  So in this document, there is a very explicit deliberate dismantling of the identification of the motor of acceleration with capitalism. And the association, I think they're definitely right to say, of a certain Marxism that would see, as part of its definition of socialism, that it was capable of accelerating…

• 01:04:37

  Because obviously when the manifesto on acceleration politics is attacking neoliberalism, it's surely, is not thinkable to them. It surely does not across the horizon for them, that neoliberalism would just a few years down the line be associated with the counter pole to this insurrectionary, populist right politics…

• 01:21:30

  Yeah, someone who was associated with NRX... ...fascism for a Tea Party Republican platform, The Daily Caller. You know, like, it's... It's the crossover. It's like there is no... The politics are so vastly accelerated that they're... That far right and what was once the... I guess you could say the moderate right…

• 01:41:42

  But like I guess like 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90…

• 01:58:56

  I mean, sorry, I might, if I've just wandered completely off the point you were making, Hunter, but I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, then I apologize for that, but I took it that way. Well, yeah, no, yeah, I mean, I guess it doesn't make me a question of like…

• 02:25:27

  So great. Okay. Yeah. So thanks. Massively to everyone for a great discussion. I've really enjoyed it. Thanks, Theodore, for your work, putting it together. Yeah, no problem. Have a good week. Yeah, you too. Thanks, Nick. Bye.