Issue #46 Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics

Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics

Benjamin H. Bratton

Issue #46
June 2013










Notes
1

This term is Spivak’s, though we mean it differently.

2

The term “comparative planetology” comes from Kim Stanley Robinson.

3

The “xeno-” prefix was introduced into this discourse by Reza Negarastani.

4

See Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect (London: Zero Books, 2010), 137–39.

5

Fredric Jameson, quoted in Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, 138.

6

Nick Land, “Machinic Desire,” Textual Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1993): 479.

7

This corresponds to a shift in focus from immediate resistance to capitalism to the ultimate completion of its historical mission (of self-extinguishment).

8

See Reza Negarastani, “Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy,” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Ed. Levi Bryant, Nick Scrnicek, Graham Harman. (Melbourne: re:press, 2011).

9

See .

10

I’ve discussed this at length in a series of interviews with Metahaven.

11

See, for example, the novel Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, and Eden Medina’s, Cybernetic Revolutionaires, Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. MIT Press. 2011.







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