The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism - Promo Discussion with Matt Colquhoun (Xenogothic) (128kbit_AAC)

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• 00:00:00

  So welcome to the promo video for mine, Meta Nomad, and Matt Cahoon, XenoGothic, the course, the Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, which is a course we should be releasing this Friday coming, which is the 24th of July 2020, if you're watching this video a long time from now. So this is going to be sort…

• 00:06:59

  And it was kind of a reaction to it. So Mark Fisher writing about hauntology on his blog in the mid 2000s. And then there was a backlash to that. And then accelerationism kind of emerged as this new revitalized thing. It's interesting to think of it like that, because what seemed to happen with hauntology was that…

• 00:12:47

  Is that what I've found in my side is that those, in a lot of ways, the very question for politics, the politics of accelerationism is why is there a distance or how do we correct this distance between philosophy and politics? The politics can be just brought down to the question of what is to be done. We have this…

• 00:19:51

  And you see that now where we don't necessarily have the... The idea of individual property is again being negated even further. So that now rent is kind of... 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…

• 00:25:57

  And this is one of the problems is with, you know, and this is why the question is still there is because it's such a big question of, well, you know, you can't just go out and go, I'm going to make something different, but it's not going to change anything. Because I'm reminded of the Bergson thing of like, when…

• 00:37:22

  Where this like this, these, these musicians and artists that are using they're just, they're kind of enjoying the, their stasis, this kind of cultural dementia that we're going through. And in the process of, of trying to capture that feeling, they produce, you know, a new kind of creative moment. And then…

• 00:44:57

  And he has these like four pillars that surround philosophy and influence it. And that philosophy influences in turn, which is science, politics, art and love. And which I kind of just interpret. I mean, I don't know what he means by love. I guess that's kind of like intersubjective kind of understandings. But…

• 00:52:13

  So if there's something that. Interests you or, you know, you want to enroll in. Yeah, just find the links. Or if you have any questions, then feel free to message me or me or Matt. So it's Meta Nomad on Twitter or Xeno Gothic on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything you want to add? No, just it sounds great. I'm…