"... 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
On 02/09/16 01:48 PM, nettime's slow reader wrote:
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> http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/on-accelerationism
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> [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
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
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