Escape Velocities

Alex Williams

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Issue #46
June 2013










Notes
1

Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 5.

2

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London: Continuum, 2004), 260.

3

Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007, eds. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2011), 626.

4

Ray Brassier, “Concepts and Objects,” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds. Levi R. Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011), 47–66.

5

See Alberto Toscano’s comments at the Accelerationism Conference, Goldsmiths University, September 14, 2010.

6

In which regard Land is to be identified as that rare philosopher who is worth reading simply for the exquisitely savage quality of his writing.

7

Reza Negarestani, “Abducting the Outside: Modernity and the Culture of Acceleration” (Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2012).

8

Giuseppe Longo, “Critique of Computational Reason in the Natural Sciences,” in Fundamental Concepts in Computer Science, Vol. 3 (London: Imperial College Press, 2009), 43–70.

9

Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, “On Cunning Automata,”Collapse VIII (2013).

10

Nick Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political” (presented at the Weaponising Speculation Event, Dublin, March 2013).

11

Fernando Zalamea, Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics (Falmouth: Sequence Press, 2012).

12

Reza Negarestani, “A Vertiginous View Of Enlightenment.” Savage Objects – Forensic Architecture (2012).

13

Reza Negarestani, “Globe of Revolution,” Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 17 (2011): 25–54.

14

Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political.”

15

Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, “#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics,” in Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. Joshua Johnson, (Miami: [NAME] Publications, forthcoming). See .

16

Ibid.

17

Benedict Singleton, “Maximum Jailbreak” (presented at the War Against The Sun, Old Limehouse Town Hall, March 2, 2013).

18

Negarestani, “Abducting the Outside.”

19

Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political.”

20

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). See .

21

Marcel Detienne and Jean Pierre Vernant, Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978).

This essay would not have been possible were it not for a number of years of invaluable discussion on this topic with Ray Brassier, Nathan Coombs, Mark Fisher, Reza Negarestani, Nick Srnicek, Benedict Singleton, and Peter Wolfendale.