Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Events
• Accelerationism symposium, Goldsmiths, London, 14 Sep 2010. Talks by
Ray Brassier, Mark Fisher, Alex Andrews, Benjamin Noys, Nick Srnicek,
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Authors, Initiatives
Armen Avanessian The New Centre for Mohammad Salemy
Research & Practice Nick Srnicek
Diann Bauer
Benjamin Noys Alex Williams
Craig Hickman
Matteo Pasquinelli
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Writings
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Noys
• Benjamin Noys, "Accelerationism", No Useless Leniency blog, Oct 2008.
• Benjamin Noys, "Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis", Mute 15 (Feb 2010); repr.
in Eurozine, May 2010.
• Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of
Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, Sep 2010, 196 pp. Discusses the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Latour,
Negri, and Badiou from the perspective of accelerationism (see also the
section 'Primary references' below). [3]
• Steven Shaviro, Post Cinematic Affect, O-Books, Dec 2010, 200 pp. A book
on accelerationist aesthetics, treating recent audiovisual productions as
mappings of the spaces and affective modulations of neoliberal capitalism.
Passage (pp 136-139).
• Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero
Books, Oct 2014. Review: Wark.
Talks
Primary references
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#Accelerate Manifesto and commentaries
• Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, "#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist
Politics", Critical Legal Thinking blog, 14 May 2013; repr. in Dark
Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. Joshua Johnson, Miami: Name,
Aug 2013; repr. in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen
Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014. "We believe the most
important division in today's left is between those that hold to a folk politics
of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline
what must become called an accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity
of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology."
• Translations.
• "Brzine bijega", trans. Lana Pukanić, Libra Libera 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-
31. (Croatian)
• McKenzie Wark, "#Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an
Accelerationist Politics", May 2013. [4]
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Selected books and essays
• Nick Land's blog posts on acceleration.
• Gean Moreno, "Notes on the Inorganic", e-flux 31 (Jan 2012).
• Alex Williams, "Escape Velocities", e-flux 46 (Jun 2013).
• "Brzine bijega", trans. Lana Pukanić, Libra Libera 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-
31. (Croatian)
• Benedict Singleton, "Maximum Jailbreak", e-flux 46 (Jun 2013); repr. as
"Maximum Jailbreak (Extended Mix)", in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist
Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
• Armen Avanessian, "Criticism - Crisis - Acceleration", in Survival Kits. An
Artist's and Thinker's Book, ed. Deborah Ligorio, Berlin: Sternberg, 2013,
pp 56-61.
• Matteo Pasquinelli, "The Labour of Abstraction: Seven Transitional Theses
on Marxism and Accelerationism", Dec 2013; printed in Fillip 19 (Jun
2014).
• "Le travail de l'abstraction. Sept thèses transitionnelles sur le marxisme et
l'accélérationnisme", trans. Yves Citton, Multitudes 56 (2014), pp 49-55.
[6] (French)
• Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Armen Avanessian, "#Accelerationism:
Remembering the Future", Tag Allgemeiner Zeitung, 4 Feb 2014; posted on
Critical Legal Thinking blog, 10 Feb 2014.
• Ray Brassier, "Wandering Abstraction", Mute, 13 Feb 2014.
• Tiziana Terranova, "Red Stack Attack!", Quaderni di San Precario blog, 12
Feb 2014, [7] [8]; repr. in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds.
Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014. Commentary by
Craig Hickman.
• Luciana Parisi, "Automated Architecture", in #Accelerate: The
Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay,
Urbanomic, 2014. Commentary by Craig Hickman.
• Ross Wolfe, "The Future of Enlightenment: Thoughts on 'Universalism and
Its Discontents'", The Charnel-House blog, 12 Jun 2014.
• Frédéric Neyrat, "Critique du géo-constructivisme. Anthropocène & géo-
ingénierie", Multitudes 56 (2014), pp 37-47. [9] (French)
• Nick Srnicek, "Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political", in
Speculative Aesthetics, eds. Robin Mackay, James Trafford and Luke
Pendrell, Urbanomic, 2014, pp 48-53. [10] [11]
• Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism,
University of Minnesota Press, Jan 2015, 86 pp, ARG. [12]
• Nina Power, "Decapitalism, Left Scarcity, and the State", Fillip 20 (Spring
2015). Based on a paper presented at the Radical Philosophy conference,
Berlin, 16 Jan 2015.
• Benjamin Noys, "Accelerated Substance Abuse", &&& Journal 0 (Jan
2015). Presented at #Accelerate seminar, The New Centre for Research &
Practice, 1 Oct 2014.
• Ivan Niccolai, "A Response to Benjamin Noys’ Critique of Accelerationism",
&&& Journal 0 (Jan 2015).
• David Cunningham, "A Marxist Heresy? Accelerationism and Its
Discontents", Radical Philosophy 191 (May-Jun 2015), pp 29-38.
• Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a
World Without Work, London: Verso, Sep 2015, 256 pp. [13]. Online
symposium (Shapiro, J Kay, S Lewis & DM Bell, A Hirst & Houseman,
Hoover). Reviews: Wark (Public Seminar 2015), Lowrie (LARB 2015),
more.
• Rob Myers, "Accelerationist Art", Furtherfield, 7 Apr 2016.
• Nicholas A. Knouf, "Noisy Accelerationism", ch in Knouf, How Noise
Matters to Finance, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
• Fred Turner, "On Accelerationism", Public Books, 1 Sep 2016. Nettime
discussion.
• Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, Polity, 2017.
• McKenzie Wark, "Black Accelerationism", Public Seminar, 27 Jan 2017.
• Michael E. Gardiner, "Critique of Accelerationism", Theory, Culture &
Society 34:1, 2017, pp 29-52.
• Anon, "#AltWoke Manifesto", &&& Journal, 5 Feb 2017.
• "The #AltWoke Companion", Apr 2017, [7] pp. [14] [15]
• Alexander R. Galloway, "Brometheanism", boundary2, 21 Jun 2017.
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Anthologies
• e-flux 46: "Accelerationist Aesthetics", ed. Gean Moreno, Jun 2013. Texts by
Williams, Shaviro, Bratton, Roche, Bifo, Fisher, Singleton, Battaglia,
MacCormack, and Russell.
• Armen Avanessian (ed.), #Akzeleration, Berlin: Merve, Dec 2013, 96 pp.
Texts by Avanessian, Bifo, Land, McCormack, Noys, Pasquinelli, Srnicek,
and Williams. Publisher, Introduction. Review: Drees. (German)
• #Acceleratie, trans. Menno Grootveld and Samuel Vriezen, Leesmagazijn,
Nov 2014, 101 pp. [16] (Dutch)
• Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate: The Accelerationist
Reader, Falmouth: Urbanomic, and Berlin: Merve, May 2014, 536 pp, PDF,
ARG. Texts by Fisher, Srnicek and Williams, Negri, Terranova, Parisi,
Negarestani, Brassier, Singleton, Land, Reed, Bauer, and the section on "a
genealogy of accelerationism". Publisher. Reviews: Harris (New Inquiry),
Charlesworth (ArtReview), O'Sullivan (Mute), Andrews (Review31), Read
(Frieze). Commentaries: Wark (Public Seminar), Cunningham (Radical
Philosophy).
• Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay (eds.), #Akzeleration#2, trans. Moritz
Gansen and Hannah Wallenfels, Berlin: Merve, 2014, 176 pp. Publisher.
Texts by Brassier, Land, Negri, Parisi, Srnicek, Terranova and Williams.
(German)
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Journal issues
• "Akceleracionizam", section in Libra Libera 33, intro. Ante Jerić, Zagreb:
Autonomna Tvornica Kulture, Dec 2013, pp 11-55. (Croatian)
• &&& Journal 0: "Tachophobia // Tachomania", Spring 2015.
• A2 6: "Akceleracionismus", Prague, 16 Mar 2016. [21] (Czech)
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Interviews
• C. Derick Varn, "The Main Currents of Communization: Interview With
Benjamin Noys", The North Star blog, 28 June 2013.
• C. Derick Varn, Dario Cankovich, "The Speed of Future Thought: Alex
Williams and Nick Srnicek interviewed", The North Star blog, 15 July 2013.
• Philipp Ekardt, "Die Think Tanks und die Fetischisten. Ein Gespräch mit
Armen Avanessian und Aram Lintzel über Akzelerationismus", Texte zur
Kunst, 30 May 2014. (German)
• "crash and burn: debating accelerationism. Alexander Galloway interviews
Benjamin Noys", 3:AM Magazine, 4 November 2014.
• Mohammad Salemy, Nick Srnicek, and Alex Williams, "Speed Trials: A
Conversation about Accelerationist Politics", Fillip 20 (Spring 2015).
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Blogs
Nick Srnicek (Synthetic Edifice), Nick Land (Urban Future), London-based
PhD-students (Accelerationism: Cosmism, Prometheanism, New
Enlightenment), Craig Hickman (Alien Ecologies).
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More
• Online accelerationist writings compiled by Nick Land.
• Accelerationism on Uberty.org
• Accelerationism on Academia.edu
• Accelerationism at Wikipedia
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References
1990s UK theory-fiction on acceleration
• Nick Land, "Circuitries", Pli 4:1/2 (1992), pp 217-235; repr. in Land, Fanged
Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, eds. Robin Mackay and Ray
Brassier, Urbanomic, 2011, pp 289-318; repr. in #Accelerate: The
Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay,
Urbanomic, 2014, pp 251-274, ARG.
• Nick Land, "Meltdown", Abstract Culture 1, Coventry: CCRU, 1997, [24];
repr. in Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, eds. Robin
Mackay and Ray Brassier, Urbanomic, 2011, pp 441-459. [25]. First
presented at Virtual Futures, Warwick University, May 1994.
• Nick Land, Sadie Plant, "Cyberpositive", in Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a
Contaminated Culture, ed. Matthew Fuller, 1994; repr. in #Accelerate: The
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Documentary film
• Hyperstition, dir. Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian, 2015, 102 min.
15-minute excerpt. [27] [28]
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See also
• Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
• Karl Marx
Humanities