Zenoeconomics and Accelerationism

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"In Speculative Realist terms, what is necessary is to think the in-itself of capitalism outside of any correlation to the human. Ray Brassier has already hinted at this in his original “Nihil Unbound” article on Badiou, Deleuze & Guattari and Capitalism. For surely what all analyses of capitalism have presumed to date is the capitalist ‘for-us’ (construed in positive or negative terms), whereas capital is ultimately a machine which has almost no relation to humanity whatsoever, it intersects with us, it has us as moving parts, but it ultimately is not of or for-us. Capital properly thought is a vast inhuman form, a genuinely alien life form (in that it is entirely non-organic) of which we know all-too-little. A new investigation of this form must proceed precisely as an anti-anthropomorphic cartography, a study in alien finance, a Xenoeconomics."​

Xenoeconomics and Capital Unbound



"Outside of a vitalist notion of an inhuman jouissance, (shared by the libidinal economists) the market delivers not a utopia of free-flowing desire but rather a perfect dystopia of the genuinely inhuman, a non-affective cold-machinism truly adequate to capital-in-itself. The irresistible inverse image of 9/11 presents itself: Instead of flying the planes into symbols of western capitalism, we plunge the financial-capitalistic contents of the towers into the human world itself, dissolving, sundering, shattering… "​

Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics

Responses to above from K-punk (first here, then here, and finally here), from Owen (here), and from No Useless Leniency (here, then here).



Responses to the Continuing Financial Meltdown and Imminent Global Depression from :

Paul Virilio, from Alan Badiou, from Tronti, from Slavoj Zizek (It's Good to Talk!!), from Jacques-Alain Miller, and lastly IT's summary of a conference on the crisis with contributions from Chris Harman, Alan Freeman, Robin Blackburn, Jacob Middleton, Alex Callinicos, and Peter Gowan.
 

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"In Speculative Realist terms, what is necessary is to think the in-itself of capitalism outside of any correlation to the human. Ray Brassier has already hinted at this in his original “Nihil Unbound” article on Badiou, Deleuze & Guattari and Capitalism. For surely what all analyses of capitalism have presumed to date is the capitalist ‘for-us’ (construed in positive or negative terms), whereas capital is ultimately a machine which has almost no relation to humanity whatsoever, it intersects with us, it has us as moving parts, but it ultimately is not of or for-us. Capital properly thought is a vast inhuman form, a genuinely alien life form (in that it is entirely non-organic) of which we know all-too-little. A new investigation of this form must proceed precisely as an anti-anthropomorphic cartography, a study in alien finance, a Xenoeconomics."​

Xenoeconomics and Capital Unbound



"Outside of a vitalist notion of an inhuman jouissance, (shared by the libidinal economists) the market delivers not a utopia of free-flowing desire but rather a perfect dystopia of the genuinely inhuman, a non-affective cold-machinism truly adequate to capital-in-itself. The irresistible inverse image of 9/11 presents itself: Instead of flying the planes into symbols of western capitalism, we plunge the financial-capitalistic contents of the towers into the human world itself, dissolving, sundering, shattering… "​

Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics

Responses to above from K-punk (first here, then here, and finally here), from Owen (here), and from No Useless Leniency (here, then here).



Responses to the Continuing Financial Meltdown and Imminent Global Depression from :

Paul Virilio, from Alan Badiou, from Tronti, from Slavoj Zizek (It's Good to Talk!!), from Jacques-Alain Miller, and lastly IT's summary of a conference on the crisis with contributions from Chris Harman, Alan Freeman, Robin Blackburn, Jacob Middleton, Alex Callinicos, and Peter Gowan.


I've been following this on the blogs, but thanks for posting the links to the responses by Virilio, et al!
 
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