Issue #46 Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until We Die and Radically Accelerated Repetitionism

Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until We Die and Radically Accelerated Repetitionism

John Russell

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Issue #46
June 2013










Notes
1

The term was coined (negatively) by Benjamin Noys in his Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

2

From the introduction to Accelerationism Symposium, at Goldsmith’s College (September 14, 2010). Quotation Nick Land, “Machinic Desire,” Textual Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1993).

3

See the recent “Accelerate: Manifesto For An Accelerationist Politics,” Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, .

4

Mark Fisher, “Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism,” 2010. See .

5

Benjamin Noys, “The Grammar of Neoliberalism,” 2010. See .

6

As Alberto Toscano suggests: “‘Enjoying the death of the universe’: is there anything more pitifully human?” Questions after Accelerationism Symposium. See .

7

Ray Brassier, “Accelerationism,” Accelerationism Symposium. See .

8

Fisher/Brassier, questions after Accelerationism Symposium. See .

9

Mark Fisher, “Fans, Vampires, Trolls, Masters,” 2009. See . See also Fisher, “Terminator vs. Avatar.”

10

See Fisher, “Mind Games,” Dazed and Confused (May 2011).

11

Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect (London: Zero Books, 2010), 136.

12

Frederic Jameson, Archeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (New York: Verso, 2007), 232–33. Quoted in Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, 137.

13

Reza Negarestani, “Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy,” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, eds. Levi R. Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman (Melbourne: re.press, 2011), 182–202.

14

Assisted quotation: T.S. Elliot, The Waste Land, 1922.

15

Gean Moreno, “Notes on the Inorganic, Part II: Terminal Velocity,” e-flux journal 32 (February 2012). See .

16

Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, 46.

17

Sanford Kwinter, “Generica,” in Mutations (Barcelona: Actar, 2001), 525. Quoted in Moreno "Notes on the Inorganic, Part II."

18

Benjamin Noys, “The Grammar of Neoliberalism.”Accelerationism Workshop, Goldsmiths: London (14 September 2010).

19

Letter from Marx to Engels, June 18, 1862. See .

20

Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1922.

21

Frank Herbert, Dune (New York: Ace Books, 1987), 124. See Nicola Masciandaro, “WormSign,” 2011, .

22

Stanislav Lem, The Futurology Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy, 1971.

23

Alberto Toscano, questions after Accelerationism Symposium. See .

24

Ray Brassier, “Accelerationism,” Accelerationism Symposium. See .

25

Noys, “Cyberpunk Phuturism: The Politics of Acceleration,” 2012. See .

26

Mark Fisher, “Fans, Vampires, Trolls, Masters.”

27

Hannah Sawtell, ICA, London, October 9, 2012–November 18, 2012. See . Including texts by texts by Alun Rowlands and Diedrich Diedrichsen.

28

Robert Garnett, "The 4th-Dimensional Politics of Rhythm," Marres/Centrum voor Contemporaine Cultuur Maastricht, 2013. With reference to Franco Berardi Bifo, "Emancipation of the Sign: Poetry and Finance During the Twentieth Century," e-flux journal 39 (November 2012). See . Garnett argues for "some rather preposterous claims for the politicality of the pre-posterous: the politics of rhythm exists in its capacity to produce heterogeneous blocs of temporality, rhythmic group subjectivities and becomings-otherwise, reelsewheres, in out of the here and now. Rhythm is the collective investment in the production of desire-production. This is what art or music does politically that politics cannot."

29

Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Afterword to the Second German Edition."

30

Marx, The German Ideology, 1846

31

Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, 118.