The Concept of Acceleration (Session 7)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the seventh session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'll pass the mic and camera off to Nick. OK, thanks for that, Theo. So I'm hoping that this is going to be on one level, it's going to be a block, our last little block. And we sort of promised last week that it was going…

• 00:28:16

  the things that is very very deeply embedded in the notion of democracy is a certain kind of procedural languor you know that you know to go through the proper democratic procedures however they're conceived to do with consultation and certain types of feedback and you know a kind of processes is idealized as a kind…

• 00:52:21

  That means that, you know, given sort of, uh, light speed, they're there within a tolerable, uh, temporal distance of the information that they're dealing with and they can, they can make their decision effectively that is transmitted back to the stock exchange in a in a in a tolerable duration. And and it's simply…

• 01:13:18

  And then the elected leader says, shut up and obey. People may no longer meddle in what he does afterwards. They can sit in judgment. And if he has made mistakes to the gallows with him. Right. No, but that you see, I'm taking that as implicit in what you're saying about the about the short term. Right. Right. And I'm…

• 01:43:10

  No. ...a dangerous trap for... Yeah. Right. So, like, the... I think I posted a couple articles by Postone to Moish Postone. I don't know if people know his work, to the... to the forum. And, I mean, I think in a sense he would accept the accelerationist proposition, but would not render it trans-historical…

• 02:07:18

  And it kind of like fosters... I mean, I've found that the handful of people who do, who, you know, know who I am or who I allegedly legally am or whatever on Twitter, like just almost by the act of doing that become like family-like. Like I get like a really strong like libidinal response to having done that sort…

• 02:33:56

  Right. I mean, people like Duterte and the Philippines in China, you've got this new current of kind of nationalist Maoism that's being incubated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

• 02:53:17

  Bye. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thanks…