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The Missing Subject of Accelerationism Mute
"The Missing Subject of Accelerationism Mute" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Definition · paragraph 49
That said, Badiou does precisely offer a theory of the subject (as local instance of this procedure). Indeed, this is at the core of his philosophical oeuvre and, as such, it might be argued that Badiou himself offers us the missing subject formation of accelerationism (formalised as matheme).
Definition · paragraph 49
Indeed, this is at the core of his philosophical oeuvre and, as such, it might be argued that Badiou himself offers us the missing subject formation of accelerationism (formalised as matheme). Certainly Negarestani’s labour of the inhuman has something in common with both Badiou’s fidelity to an event (in Being and Event) and his ‘Living for an Idea’ (in Logics of Worlds) insofar as it also involves a commitment to an idea – even a matheme – of what the human might become.
History · paragraph 70
The Missing Subject of Accelerationism | Mute http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/missing-subject-accelerationism[9/22/2017 10:35:35 PM] position it as secondary – at best a precursor to the real business of rational thought (one gets the sense that art has been reduced to a folk image of itself).
History · paragraph 50
The Missing Subject of Accelerationism | Mute http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/missing-subject-accelerationism[9/22/2017 10:35:35 PM] Image: Plastique Fantastique summon all the fantasies of the people!, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire, 2013
History · paragraph 44
The Missing Subject of Accelerationism | Mute http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/missing-subject-accelerationism[9/22/2017 10:35:35 PM] printed materials in constant circulation that evidenced a more explicit connection to an outside, even an underground.[xi] As the editor’s point out in their Introduction it was also ‘musicians, artists and fiction writers’, rather than academics and professional philosophers, that were ultimately most influenced by this specifically trans-disciplinary scene.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.