#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.