{"product_id":"accelerate-isbn-9780957529557","title":"#Accelerate","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e#Accelerate\u003c\/i\u003e presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own “Prometheanism,” and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, \u003ci\u003e#Accelerate\u003c\/i\u003e activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of “reasonable” contemporary political alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003eAn engaging, eccentric anthology…it's refreshing to encounter a “left” project for the future that wants to reclaim the idea of technology, industry and planet-scale thinking.—\u003cb\u003eJ.J. Charlesworth\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e—Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes\/Saint Denis. He published 25 books, including five in collaboration with Félix Guattari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFélix Guattari (1930–1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Oedipus \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSoft Subversions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCybernetic Culture Research Unit was a name on a door in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University, UK, during the late 1990s. It was a rogue unit, blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi, and music journalism. Its frenzied interdisciplinary activity, including the Virtual Futures and Virotechnology conferences and the journal \u003ci\u003eAbstract Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, disturbed Warwick's Philosophy Department, resulting in the termination of the unit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCybernetic Culture Research Unit was a name on a door in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University, UK, during the late 1990s. It was a rogue unit, blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi, and music journalism. Its frenzied interdisciplinary activity, including the Virtual Futures and Virotechnology conferences and the journal \u003ci\u003eAbstract Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, disturbed Warwick's Philosophy Department, resulting in the termination of the unit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Negri is a philosopher, essay writer, and teacher. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he has taught political science for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy, including \u003ci\u003eMarx beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies, The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e)), and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuciana Parisi is a Senior Lecturer and runs the MA program in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of \"theory-fiction\" with his book \u003ci\u003eCyclonopedia\u003c\/i\u003e. 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