The Concept of Acceleration (Session 4)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the fourth session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him right now. Okay thanks for that. I think that my intro this week probably will be perfunctory even by my standards. So in the in the schoolroom I put a reference to some Burnt Barrett materials…

• 00:24:47

  It's bent so that the amount of time traveling through air is maximized without there's obviously a certain point where it will become become inefficient but it's the fastest route when it because of the fact that these two different media have different light speeds it the the integrated vector…

• 00:50:09

  That's to say, if you treat these two different models of time as actually having a relation of circuitry relating them together, so that they actually are involved in a dynamic relationship and not simply this static aspectal relation of compatibility, then you're not going to be able to do that. Then I think…

• 01:14:27

  I mean, it's the question of like, what is Protestantism? And I think Protestantism is just like capital or critique, not by analogy, but by integral identity, in the sense that it too can't ever be confidently placed in a box, because the schismatic dynamic of Protestantism is always involved in the positioning that…

• 01:41:08

  Formulation of... Cybernetic models. And I think that's inevitably... So both... Both from the philosophical side and from the scientific side, basically. That... Cybernetics... Yeah. Cybernetics is being updated, and our ability to conceive is being updated, and they... They will literally reach a point…

• 02:03:02

  Yeah. I'm skeptical as well. And, you know, seen from the outside, it does present, you know, as you say, this self-perpetuating system. I'm just wondering, like, you know, if today you pulled out that one little piece, that end level of consumption that so much of the superstructure has been built up on top of, like…

• 02:25:21

  capital and its host species I mean for one thing that the greater the sort of autonomy though and the autonomy of capitalism is something that's completely vigorously definable which is just whether to to what extent can you do these capital production circuits with minimal human involvement you know and everything…

• 02:49:27

  know that as I've been terrible in this course of keeping ahead of the thing I think I'm gonna treat that as fate so you know I as always owe you guys some some structure but I'll make this question part of it for sure as one one of the things we to talk about next week yeah okay well thanks yeah thanks everybody yeah…