Steven Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect (London: Zero Books, 2011).
Benjamin Noys, Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
One should perhaps draw a distinction between an accelerationism that pretends to burst things asunder and another that functions from the premise that there is no beyond to burst into – capitalism is The Beyond, the final frontier.
Shaviro proposes these four diagrams: 1.) Deleuze's control society, "characterized by perpetual modulation, dispersed and 'flexible' modes of authority, ubiquitous networks, and the relentless branding and marketing of even the most 'inner' aspects of subjective experience;" 2.) the delirious financial flows of neoliberal economies; 3.) our "media ecology," which boils down to ubiquitous surveillance and image capture coupled with an endless circulation of images and other information through different networks; and, 4.) "gamespace," the colonization of the cultural sphere by the logic of computer gaming.
Shaviro, ibid., 2-6.
Ibid., 35.
Ibid., 36-7
Marc Augé, Non-Spaces: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London and New York: Verso, 1995); and Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: Movement-Image (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1986).
Augé, ibid., 79.
Ibid., 101.
Shaviro, ibid., 44.
Sanford Kwinter, "Generica," in Mutations (Barcelona: Actar, 2001), 525.
Ibid., 526.
Ibid.
McKenzie Wark, "Telegram from Nowhere," in Mutations, ibid., 37.
Shaviro, ibid., 45.
A number of these criticisms were articulated at the symposium Accelerationism, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, September 14, 2010. Particularly trenchant were criticisms by Ray Brassier and Benjamin Noys. Noys's is here →. Full recordings of the proceedings are available here →. See also Noys's Persistence of the Negative and Reza Negarestani's "Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy" in The Speculative Turn: Continental Realism and Materialism (Melbourne: Re.Press, 2011).
Shaviro, ibid., 6.
Ibid., 137.
Ibid., 36.
Fredric Jameson, The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992).