The Concept of Acceleration (Session 3)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the third session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to hand the mic off to him now. Thanks, Theo, that's great. Well for today I was hoping to build on last week's discussion of the Manifesto for Accelerationist Politics and look at some more recent left accelerationist…

• 00:26:18

  it will resonate very strongly already, says the bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production and thereby the relations of production and with them the whole relations of society. The condition for the existence of the bourgeoisie, the teleological structure is completely…

• 00:54:33

  On the other hand, it must prepare the proletariat for the ideological, tactical, material, and organizational tasks that necessarily arise in an acutely revolutionary situation. And so he refers to Rosa Luxemburg who talked about she's fighting against the notion of an organization as a precondition…

• 01:32:24

  And tell us how it happens another way. I mean, isn't this the paradox of the left accelerationist project is that they call for this diagramming and mapping and never produce any diagrams or maps to speak of just manifestos. I mean, like, it's, it's, I read the manifesto, I say, great, let's, let's see it. And then…

• 01:57:55

  So the idea of, uh, let a thousand sexes bloom and the kind of, um, gender abolition in terms of abolishing a particular structuration of gender, um, in order to proliferate possibilities in a sort of, I guess, transhumanist kind of sense, would be where, um, where that value would, would take us. But it's a good…

• 02:21:47

  They're just not science. They're just a testing mechanism for them. But once you're in a modern epoch and you have the, a series of stages that go through the discovery of theorization of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, the, the theory of the gene, the discovery of DNA, the discovery of genetic recombination…

• 02:44:15

  Didn't. necessarily before at least how they operate under capitalism, maybe not capitalism as an abstract concept, but how they introduce themselves as players within the capital system usually does. It's not just like competition. The competition comes with some sort of erasure or like ignorance of other people. And…

• 03:07:57

  Okay, cool. Thanks everybody so much and I'm sorry to, to sort of be zoning out at this and I had to talk to you all next week. Thanks. Thank you everyone. See you.