I think it would have been important to note that Nick Land was initially on board with D&G's vision, but later departed from it based on his changed understanding of capitalism. As Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier write in their introduction to Fanged Noumena:
"From Land's initial characterisation of the revolutionary task as one of pushing capitalism to the point of its auto-dissolution via the complete dis-inhibition of productive synthesis — a dis-inhibition announcing the convergence of social production and cosmic schizophrenia proclaimed in Anti-Oedipus — we arrive at the blunt admission that there is no foreseeable 'beyond' to the 'infinite' expansion of capitalism (since capitalism is 'beyondness' as such)." [0]
For a more nuanced picture of the concept of Accelerationism and its evolution in Land's thought, see my research project. [1]
[0] Robin Mackay & Ray Brassier (2011). Editor's Introduction in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, p. 47.
gom_jabbar|1 year ago
"From Land's initial characterisation of the revolutionary task as one of pushing capitalism to the point of its auto-dissolution via the complete dis-inhibition of productive synthesis — a dis-inhibition announcing the convergence of social production and cosmic schizophrenia proclaimed in Anti-Oedipus — we arrive at the blunt admission that there is no foreseeable 'beyond' to the 'infinite' expansion of capitalism (since capitalism is 'beyondness' as such)." [0]
For a more nuanced picture of the concept of Accelerationism and its evolution in Land's thought, see my research project. [1]
[0] Robin Mackay & Ray Brassier (2011). Editor's Introduction in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, p. 47.
[1] https://retrochronic.com/
unknown|1 year ago
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