Issue #70 The Vectoralist Class, Part II

The Vectoralist Class, Part II

McKenzie Wark

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Issue #70
February 2016










Notes
1

See, for example, Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972) and Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1994). Interestingly, the latter is only partly a theory of history as negation. The last chapter, on détournement, rather points in other directions.

2

Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities (Winchester: Zero Books, 2014); #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian (Falmouth: Urbanomics, 2014).

3

On metabolic rift, see: John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000); John Bellamy Foster et al., The Ecological Rift (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010).

4

See Robert Biel, The Entropy of Capitalism (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013).

5

Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1 (London: Verso, 2004).

6

On precapitalist forms of revolt, see Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels (London: Norton, 1965). On forms of revolt of the hacker class, see Alex Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007) and Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy (Brooklyn: Verso, 2014).

7

I take the concept of extrapolation from Joseph Needham, Time: The Refreshing River (London: Allen & Unwin, 1948).

8

For the classic statement of radical democracy, see Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 2014).