File:Obsolete Capitalism The strong of the future.pdf

Obsolete Capitalism :: The Strong of the Future. Nietzsche's Accelerationist Fragment in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (Rizosfera/SF001.eng, 2016).

Despite the passing of time there are fragments of thought that acquire a life of their own and hit the headlines of philo- sophical and cultural journals with regards to their evaluation and interpretation. Among the most famous ones is the Frag- ment on Machines by Karl Marx. More recently another «fragment» has gained importance in terms of discernment: a dark and forward looking «fragment in the fragment» by Friedrich Nietzsche nestled in one of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (1972) crucial pages. As widely known the reference to Nietzsche in the famous «accelerationist passage» in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus is decisive and closes the paragraph entitled The Civilized Capitalist Machine (Chapter III, Par. 9, pp. 222-239). Until today the various commentators of such passage have left aside or overshadowed the specific reference to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Große Prozeß, others have simply quoted the «accelerate the process» issue referenced by Deleuze and Guattari, mentioning Nietzsche’s book The Will of Power, but no one has ever referred to the precise fragment or its context and the potential themes it implies. The quotation of the fragment is always derived from critical essays or secondary literature books and never from the original Nietzschean work, apart from a note in Wikipedia in the definition of the word «accelerationism» and Matteo Pasquinelli’s short mention in his English “post” called Code Surplus Value and the Augmented Intellect. (...)