Re: On Accelerationism (Fred Turner)

2016-09-05 Thread Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
"... thinkers such as Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Deleuze and Guattari turned their frustration into celebration. They not only accepted their inability to escape capitalism; they revelled in it." That's complete nonsense. Rather, some of their work has been (mis)interpreted as celebratory by some m

Re: On Accelerationism (Fred Turner)

2016-09-04 Thread Rob Myers
On 02/09/16 01:48 PM, nettime's slow reader wrote: > > http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/on-accelerationism > > [...] > > [1] To their credit, Srnicek and Williams do not ask us to dissolve into > digital ones and zeros, as John Perry Barlow once did. Their call for a > universal basic inco

Re: On Accelerationism (Fred Turner)

2016-09-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
One possibly crucial difference (between then and now) is forced verticalization of communications. While the media always existed, the ratio of unmediated communication (between humans, using air as conduit) vs. mediated communication (newspapers, web pages, mail lists) has significantly gone do

On Accelerationism (Fred Turner)

2016-09-02 Thread nettime's slow reader
http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/on-accelerationism September 1, 2016 — What is to be done? In 1901, when Lenin posed this now-canonical question, the answer was a communist revolution. Today, 25 years since the Internet went public, the answer has come to seem to many on the left to be a te