I thoroughly enjoyed this article. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:30 AM furtherfield <furtherfiel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Accelerationist Art | By Rob Myers. > > Despite its image of rapid technological change, progress under capitalism > has stalled. Spinning ever faster is not the same as going somewhere. > Contemporary Accelerationism wants to take off the brakes, and it is > enlisting art's help to do so. Rob Myers attempts to speed up understanding > of what Accelerationist art is and where it maybe heading. > > “What Epistemic (philosophical) and Left (political) Accelerationism have > in common is an attitude of "prometheanism", of amplifying our > capabilities, of rationally overcoming intellectual and material limits. Of > hacking the systems of philosophical and political thought to find the > exploits that will allow us to increase our knowledge of them, our control > of them, our reach through them. Hopefully this will work out better than > it did for the original Prometheus of Greek myth (or for Ridley Scott).” > > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/accelerationist-art > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- P Thayer, Artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
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