Issue #46 Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption

Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption

Steven Shaviro

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Issue #46
June 2013










Notes
1

Stephane Mallarmé, La musique et les lettres, 1895.

2

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe, P.M.S. Hacker, and Joachim Schulte (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009), 194.

3

Ibid, 109.

4

Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1, ch. 16. See .

5

Ibid., ch. 10. See .

6

Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979, ed. Michel Senellart, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Picador, 2010), 226.

7

Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), 4–5.

8

This statement is quoted and endorsed by Virginia Postrel in: Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness(New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), 2.

9

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001); Brigitte Biehl-Missal and Michael Saren, "Atmospheres of Seduction: A Critique of Aesthetic Marketing Practices," Journal of Macromarketing (Feb. 1, 2012); Yann Moulier Boutang, Cognitive Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity, 2012).

10

Elie Ayache, The Blank Swan: The End of Probability (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010).

11

See Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies,” inNegotiations: 1972–1990, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 177–82.

12

Robin James, “Loving the Alien,” The New Inquiry, Oct. 22, 2012. See .

13

Hardt and Negri, Empire, 32.

14

James, “Loving the Alien.”

15

Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 5.

16

Boltanski and Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Gregory Elliott (New York: Verso, 2007).

17

Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (London: Zero Books, 2009).

18

Deleuze, “Nomadic Thought,” in Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953–1974, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Mike Taormina (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2004), 258