Xenosystems Fragments: (and a Gift from the Lemurs)

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Steven Shaviro, “Negative or oblique?”, The Pinocchio Theory, 2 May 2007: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=575 Land and Plant’s offices in the department also became CCRU hubs. “They were generous with their time,” said Grant, “And he had good drugs – skunk [cannabis]. Although it could be grim going in there, once he started living in his office. There would be a tower of Pot Noodles and underwear drying on the radiator, which he had washed in the staff loos.” The negation of the negation is a convoluted process central to Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism. However, this process has been in crisis for some time.

By now, we hopefully understand what has happened to accelerationism since 2007. So what happened next?Google News, you can also set up alerts. Use google syntax for better results and filtering. Here’s a guide for serious google searching. Martin Amis, “The age of horrorism (part two)”, The Guardian, 10 September 2006: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/10/september11.politicsphilosophyandsociety1 James Ellis (Meta-Nomad) – On Z/Acc (Zero-Accelerationism) – https://parallaxoptics.com/2020/03/16/on-z-acc/

Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf. London and New York: Routledge Classics, 2006. To Turner, the appeal of accelerationism is as much ancient as modern: “They are speaking in a millenarian idiom,” promising that a vague, universal change is close at hand. Noys warns that the accelerationists are trying to “claim the future”. Mark Fisher, “For Your Unpleasure: The Haute-Couture of Goth”, k-punk, 1 June 2005: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/005622.html

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The 2013 manifesto had mentioned Land’s earlier version of accelerationism in passing, describing it as “acute” and “hypnotising”, but also “myopic” and “confused”. When Srnicek and I met – appropriately, he chose a futuristic public space: a cafe in the angular new extension to Tate Modern – I asked how he regarded Land and the CCRU’s work now. “Land’s stuff is a valid reading of Deleuze and Guattari,” he began politely. “But the inhumanism of it all ... And I’m not sure if returning to the CCRU’s texts is that interesting – all that word-play … Using the word ‘cyber’ seems very 90s.” Together, please join me in congratulating each and every one of you who has built Xenosystems up to what we have here today; as I believe change is a neutral power that we can harness, together, to build that future we all see and strive for. The course is a two-parter, with James covering the philosophy of accelerationism and me on politics. (I’ll put the full course outline after the jump…)

Following our one-hour promo chat from the other day, I’m very excited to announce that The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, a collaborative course written by James ‘ @meta_nomad‘ Ellis and myself is now live at teachable.com. We’re excited to share that we’ve been featured in Cosmonaut Magazine. In this interview by Souvarine, our CEO Heatproofsean presents a general view of our organization and touches upon some of our particularities. Jason Smith and Filippo del Luchesse, “‘We Need a Popular Discipline’: Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative — Interview with Alain Badiou”, lacan.com, 7 February 2007: https://www.lacan.com/baddiscipline.html

Known for its innovations, long-term strategic thinking and professionalism, the company embodies continuous-improvement practices and is extremely committed to the atmosphere it creates for its members. Edmund Berger, “Unconditional Acceleration and the Question of Praxis: Some Preliminary Thoughts”, Deterritorial Investigations, 29 March 2017: https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/unconditional-acceleration-and-the-question-of-praxis-some-preliminary-thoughts/ Data-driven decisions, innovations, long-term strategic thinking and professionalism, the Xenosystems organization embodies continuous-improvement practices and is extremely committed to the atmosphere it creates for its members.