The Concept of Acceleration (Session 8)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to the final session of the concept of acceleration with Nick Land. I'm going to pass the mic off to him now. Okay, thanks Theo, and thanks to everyone who's here. I'm sure everyone shares my confidence that we're going to neatly wrap up all the things we've been talking about in this session. I've…

• 00:29:14

  That people were living the same way and expressing themselves the same way. And, you know, whereas if you, obviously, if you look at like the last 500 years, what's happened with art, I mean, you know, it's bananas. It's gone so quickly. It's just almost difficult to know why I don't even know where we are now. Even…

• 00:55:44

  um to do anything about time as such it's that would be a completely sort of sad metaphysical error so then the question is about uh chronogenesis the production of time yes what what about producing time where does time come from that's where that's where fate is engineered um and so you know that's where i want…

• 01:21:34

  Because there cannot be a tendential process towards singularity within symmetrical physical description. So I think that's, on one level, the hinge between that. But as I say, I think I should step back on this, because I'm not being impressively articulate about it right at the moment. But I guess I guess I guess I…

• 01:44:48

  You have to hit the wall. And this is...this is what all of this is about. Do you hit the wall? And the process of hitting the wall ... ...process that is the gradient in time. That's the thing that gives time an arrow. Is the fact that you're accelerating into the wall. If you're not approaching the wall, there's…

• 02:11:01

  To this ultimate horizon and clearly in doing so we're not. But the same time that we're even using the term ultimate horizon, we're pretending we're not using the word ultimate horizon or pretending we. We don't understand what they mean by an ultimate horizon. I mean. So. I have to say if you don't if you don't…

• 02:30:13

  Because in some ways, it would seem to be almost inversely related. Are we really talking about graphing the same thing in the same space inversely? And what I mean by that is the exponentially or hyperbiologically increasing complexity in the economic realm, compelled to that decision-making space, where exactly…

• 03:03:16

  This is it. This is the wall This is the we've hit the wall guys do you agree? and It's never over and yet. It's over. Yeah, okay, you know dissolved Yeah next time everybody Thanks, Nick. It's been us. Thanks all of you. It's been fantastic Thanks everyone Bye everyone Bye bye Bye bye Bye bye Bye bye Bye bye Bye…