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Turing-cops and cyborg cat-women - 3 AM Magazine
"Turing-cops and cyborg cat-women - 3 AM Magazine" belongs to the critique-and-aftermath line, where accelerationism is tested against misuse, reactionary drift, and public simplification.
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These pages matter because accelerationism survives through controversy as much as through advocacy. Misuse, rightward drift, media simplification, and retrospective criticism are part of the archive's public afterlife, not external noise to be ignored.
Critique and aftermath pieces work by comparing branches, exposing slippages, and testing whether accelerationism still names anything coherent once it enters journalism, reactionary politics, or public moral panic.
That matters because the site cannot treat accelerationism as a stable doctrine without reproducing the flattening it is meant to clarify. This cluster keeps the term tied to its contested reception and political consequences.
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Definition · paragraph 6
About as challenging as talking sense to Turing-cops, and persuading them that going on a death-trip might not be a good idea. If we wish to view accelerationism as a story with a set of distinct philosophical premises, based on the assumption that humans can be liberated only by becoming-machine, then it’s a story that calls for suspicion. A world defined by machinic jouissance, ‘descending data-storms’ and ‘cyborg cat-women’, is certainly not for everyone.
Definition · paragraph 5
And he goes on, inimitably: Suddenly it’s everywhere: a virtual envelopment by recyclones, voodoo economics, neo-nightmares, death-trips, skin-swaps, teraflops, Wintermute-wasted Turing-cops, sensitive silicon, socket-head subversion, polymorphic hybridizations, descending data-storms, and cyborg cat women stalking amongst the screens.
Definition · paragraph 6
If we wish to view accelerationism as a story with a set of distinct philosophical premises, based on the assumption that humans can be liberated only by becoming-machine, then it’s a story that calls for suspicion. A world defined by machinic jouissance, ‘descending data-storms’ and ‘cyborg cat-women’, is certainly not for everyone. But is the sole point of accelerationism to present a totalitarian metanarrative, characterized by utopian/dystopian visions of the future?
Definition · paragraph 6
If, to quote Elvis Costello, “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then what is it like to write about Nick Land? It’s challenging, no doubt. About as challenging as talking sense to Turing-cops, and persuading them that going on a death-trip might not be a good idea.
History · paragraph 1
Turing-cops and cyborg cat-women By Carl Cederström. (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am//wp- content/uploads/2014/11/475218816_640.jpg) (image above from “#accelerate”, Diann Bauer, 2014, A single screen video work produced for the launch of #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader published by Urbanomic, 2014.
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