Bibliography

Canonical anchor texts

These are the works the archive's reference essays repeatedly anchor to — the books, theses, and essays the body prose treats as load-bearing. Most don't yet have full work pages on the site (that's Phase H); each entry here is a stable bibliography destination so prose-citations land somewhere real and you can find the work itself.

Linked from inline citations in section, person, and concept pages. Use the external links to find the work in print or online.

#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

The anthology that consolidated 'accelerationism' as a public keyword. Includes Land's 'Teleoplexy', the MAP, Williams/Srnicek, and Mackay/Avanessian's editorial framing. Cited from accelerationism-branches-and-debates, robin-mackay, srnicek-and-williams, teleoplexy.

The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology

Ireland's most concentrated essay on hyperstition as a formal-technical operation on time and sign. Cited from amy-ireland, hyperstition-and-fiction-making.

The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology

Alias for /works/canon#the-poememenon (the most-cited Ireland essay). Same work as `the-poememenon`; this slug is provided for prose-citation links that already used the longer form.

Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine

The most rigorous philosophical reconstruction of the archive's numeracy and time-form. The single deepest document for serious numogram readers; cited from numogram, anna-greenspan, capital-meltdown.

Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade

Greenspan's urban-philosophy treatment of Shanghai as the place where modernity, system, and geopolitics become legible at once. Cited from anna-greenspan, china-megacity-and-urban-futures.

Ccru: Writings 1997–2003

The core in-house corpus: Lemurian Time-War cycle, Cthulhu Club fragments, Decimal Decadence and numogram materials, Mu archive. Cited from numogram, hyperstition, lemurian-time-war, theory-fiction, geotrauma, cybergothic, body-without-organs and others — the most-cited document on the site.

Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck

Yudkowsky's most accessible book-length statement of the rationalist epistemic-ecology argument that frames his AI-risk position. Cited from eliezer-yudkowsky.

Black Ice

Grant's Virtual Futures-era essay on inhumanism and dark accelerationism, contemporaneous with the CCRU. Cited from iain-hamilton-grant.

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling

Grant's post-Schellingian ground-productivity argument — the speculative-realist counterpoint to correlationism. Cited from iain-hamilton-grant, brassier-grant-and-speculative-realism, geotrauma-and-the-outside.

More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction

Eshun's sonic-fiction manifesto, contemporaneous with the CCRU and methodologically adjacent. Cited from sonic-futures-and-audio-theory, theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle.

Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

The collectively-authored manifesto extending cyberfeminist commitments. Cited from cyberfeminism-xenofeminism-and-technical-subjects, amy-ireland.

Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-technology, and the Mutations of Desire

The technically specific philosophy of contagion and virotechnics — control-as-contagion as a rigorous claim, not a metaphor. Cited from luciana-parisi, control-virotechnics-and-swarm-systems, ai-basilisk.

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Fisher's compressed public-theory diagnosis. The most-translated CCRU-adjacent book. Cited from mark-fisher, k-punk.

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Fisher's hauntology in book form, run through music and film criticism. Cited from mark-fisher, hauntology, sonic-futures-and-audio-theory.

K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

The collected blog + uncollected writings. The corpus where 'doing theory in public' is fully visible. Cited from mark-fisher, k-punk, theory-fiction-and-cyberstyle.

Post-Capitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

Fisher's last lecture series, posthumously transcribed. The acid-communism fragment in usable form. Cited from mark-fisher.

Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007

The single-volume Land collection — the canonical anchor for nick-land, capital-meltdown, theory-fiction, and the early machinic-desire / accelerationism essays. Edited by Mackay and Brassier.

Machinic Desire

Land's pre-break Textual Practice essay. Subsequently collected in Fanged Noumena. Cited from machinic-desire references in capital-meltdown, accelerationism, nick-land-before-the-break.

Teleoplexy: Notes on Acceleration

Land's essay introducing teleoplexy as the thermodynamic-selective signature of capital-acceleration. Anchor for the capitalism-as-AI argument. Cited from teleoplexy, capitalism-as-ai, ai-basilisk-and-recursive-intelligence.

Templexity: Disordered Loops Through Shanghai Time

Late Land in non-political mode — the book that complicates a clean Warwick/blog-era split. Cited from nick-land, china-megacity-and-urban-futures, capitalism-as-ai.

The Dark Enlightenment

Late Land's most-cited online essay. The primary text for the post-Warwick political register. Cited from nick-land-after-warwick, right-accelerationism.

The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

Pre-CCRU Land — the book that establishes the recursive prose-method. Cited from nick-land, nick-land-before-the-break.

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

The book-length L/ACC programme. Cited from srnicek-and-williams, left-accelerationism.

Orphan Drift

The 1999 collective novel — the most concentrated artefact of the Orphan Drift practice. Cited from maggie-roberts, orphan-drift-and-experimental-practice.

Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction

Brassier's rationalist-nihilist external critique of Land. The serious-philosophy reception of the CCRU material. Cited from ray-brassier, brassier-grant-and-speculative-realism.

Cyclonopaedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Theory-fiction at full operating density. The book-length demonstration of hyperstitional method through petropolitics and Middle Eastern occulture. Cited from hyperstition, theory-fiction, geotrauma, reza-negarestani.

Intelligence and Spirit

Negarestani's rationalist-inhumanist treatment of cognition. The continuation that revises rather than preserves the CCRU project. Cited from reza-negarestani, ai-basilisk-and-recursive-intelligence.

A Brief History of Geotrauma

Mackay's essay on the genealogy of geotrauma, from the Leper Creativity symposium volume. Cited from geotrauma-and-the-outside, robin-mackay.

Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture

The cyberfeminist re-grounding of cybernetic and abstraction discourse. The book that prevents the CCRU from collapsing into a Land-shaped legend. Cited from sadie-plant, cyberfeminism-xenofeminism-and-technical-subjects, warwick-and-formation.

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

Goodman's argument for sound as theoretical operator. Cited from steve-goodman, sonic-futures-and-audio-theory.

HEXEN 2.0

Treister's diagrammatic genealogy of cybernetics, counterculture, and the military-industrial complex. The diagram-as-research-method work. Cited from suzanne-treister, lemurian-time-war.