Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 5.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London: Continuum, 2004), 260.
Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007, eds. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2011), 626.
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.
See Alberto Toscano’s comments at the Accelerationism Conference, Goldsmiths University, September 14, 2010.
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.
Reza Negarestani, “Abducting the Outside: Modernity and the Culture of Acceleration” (Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, 2012).
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.
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, “On Cunning Automata,”Collapse VIII (2013).
Nick Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political” (presented at the Weaponising Speculation Event, Dublin, March 2013).
Fernando Zalamea, Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics (Falmouth: Sequence Press, 2012).
Reza Negarestani, “A Vertiginous View Of Enlightenment.” Savage Objects – Forensic Architecture (2012).
Reza Negarestani, “Globe of Revolution,” Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 17 (2011): 25–54.
Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political.”
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 →.
Ibid.
Benedict Singleton, “Maximum Jailbreak” (presented at the War Against The Sun, Old Limehouse Town Hall, March 2, 2013).
Negarestani, “Abducting the Outside.”
Srnicek, “Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political.”
Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). See →.
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.