The Concept of Acceleration (Session 2)

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• 00:00:00

  Hi and welcome to the second session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. And pass the mic off to him right now. Thanks. Thanks to you all. And I'm sorry for having been so utterly humiliated by Pacific Daylight Saving Time. I sort of understood and then I managed to just get myself screwed up about…

• 00:22:35

  now this is a very interesting sentence i think because it what is being said in this sentence clearly is that the future is less ontologically settled than the past and they they they construct a they they consolidate that by saying um the choice in the section before section 23 of the final section the choice facing…

• 00:51:18

  So this is so against standard intuitions, and I would take it so against what the MAP wants to maintain, in a certain sense, beyond question. That time asymmetry for them is something so essential to the possibility of political action, that it's pushed off the boundaries of their discussion. And so on one level, I…

• 01:17:57

  just combusted is because it is seen on the right as having totally failed and you know in the in the recent the recent transition if you were to say well who was the neoliberal candidate in the American elections or who was the near liberal camp in the brexit referendum the people would say it was the remainers…

• 01:41:16

  And capitalism, capitalism is the first thing that we've ever seen that at least throws into very serious question this, the, the compensatory side of the, of the equation. I mean, well, I, I'm sorry. I should stop there. It gets into something huge as well. Could you, could you go into that more? I was. Well, well, I…

• 02:04:14

  So the movement from the vector of MCM to MM is what I'm particularly interested in, because I think it was Vincent last week had put on the table chapter 15 from Capital Three, The Development of the Law's Internal Contradictions, where Marx talks about the rate of profit as the spur of capitalist production…

• 02:23:54

  So it, the absolute de-territorialization can be no more teleological than it is mechanical. And I think this is what Deleuze and Guattari are constantly trying to, to do, you know, like they're, there's a seemingly paradoxical notion that desiring machine, desiring machine is they're deliberately coupling…

• 02:43:55

  I'll I'll harass him about it. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. All right. Have a good week, everyone. Yeah, it says definitely thanks. Theodore for, for keeping things. On the rails. Yes, of course. If they have stayed on the rails. Okay. Great week. Everyone. Bye. Bye.