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* ''[http://fixingthefuture.info Fixing the Future]'' event series, started in June 2014. Organised by Diann Bauer, Joshua Johnson, Suhail Malik, Mohammad Salemy, and Keith Tilford. Online seminars: Deneb Kozikoski, Anthony Paul Smith, Peter Wolfendale.
 
* ''[http://fixingthefuture.info Fixing the Future]'' event series, started in June 2014. Organised by Diann Bauer, Joshua Johnson, Suhail Malik, Mohammad Salemy, and Keith Tilford. Online seminars: Deneb Kozikoski, Anthony Paul Smith, Peter Wolfendale.
 
* ''[http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?page_id=32 Reinventing Horizons]'' symposium, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, 18-19 Mar 2016. Organised by [[Tranzitdisplay|Display]], Zbyněk Baladrán, Vítek Bohal, [[Václav Janoščík]], Dustin Breitling, and [[Mohammad Salemy]].
 
* ''[http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?page_id=32 Reinventing Horizons]'' symposium, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, 18-19 Mar 2016. Organised by [[Tranzitdisplay|Display]], Zbyněk Baladrán, Vítek Bohal, [[Václav Janoščík]], Dustin Breitling, and [[Mohammad Salemy]].
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* ''[http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/en/a-government-of-times-in-leipzig A Government of Times]'' symposium-performance, Halle 14, Leipzig, 28 May 2016. Curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós.
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* ''[https://www.kaaitheater.be/en/agenda/fasterslowerfuture-towards-postcapitalism Faster/Slower/Future, Towards Postcapitalism]'' conference, Kaaistudio's, Brussels, 22-23 Sep 2016. Organised by Kaaitheater Brussels.
  
 
==Authors, Initiatives==
 
==Authors, Initiatives==
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* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/apocalypse-tendency-crisis "Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis"], ''Mute'' 15 (Feb 2010); [http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-05-26-noys-en.html repr. in] ''Eurozine'', May 2010.
 
* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/apocalypse-tendency-crisis "Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis"], ''Mute'' 15 (Feb 2010); [http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-05-26-noys-en.html repr. in] ''Eurozine'', May 2010.
 
* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5808 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). [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0bc11200]
 
* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5808 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). [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0bc11200]
* Steven Shaviro, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=880a90d14d21bb92b1d514ebcf972c10 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. [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/1574d8faea2e4e01470a37f6a0f60ec6#71.01-72.55 Passage] (pp 136-139).
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* Steven Shaviro, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=880a90d14d21bb92b1d514ebcf972c10 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. [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/1574d8faea2e4e01470a37f6a0f60ec6#71.01-72.55 Passage] (pp 136-139).
 
* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12728 Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism]'', Zero Books, Oct 2014. Review: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/the-drone-of-minerva/ Wark].
 
* Benjamin Noys, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12728 Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism]'', Zero Books, Oct 2014. Review: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/the-drone-of-minerva/ Wark].
  
 
; Talks
 
; Talks
* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.academia.edu/327085 "The Grammar of Neoliberalism"], 2010; printed in ''Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside'', ed. Joshua Johnson, Miami: Name, Aug 2013. Talk given at the Accelerationism workshop at Goldsmiths on 14 Sep 2010.
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* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.academia.edu/327085 "The Grammar of Neoliberalism"], 2010; [https://monoskop.org/images/9/99/Johnson_Joshua_ed_Dark_Trajectories_Politics_of_the_Outside_2013.pdf#page=37 printed in] ''Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside'', ed. Joshua Johnson, Hong Kong: Name Publications, Aug 2013. Talk given at the Accelerationism workshop at Goldsmiths on 14 Sep 2010.
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=51 "Gramatika neoliberalizma"], trans. Tomislav Žilić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 49-53. {{cr}}
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=51 "Gramatika neoliberalizma"], trans. Tomislav Žilić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 49-53. {{cr}}
 
* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.academia.edu/7167970/ "Abandoning Accelerationism? Two Exits"], 2013. Talk given at University of Westminster on 23 May 2014.
 
* Benjamin Noys, [http://www.academia.edu/7167970/ "Abandoning Accelerationism? Two Exits"], 2013. Talk given at University of Westminster on 23 May 2014.
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===#Accelerate Manifesto and commentaries===
 
===#Accelerate Manifesto and commentaries===
* Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ "#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; [https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf#page=355 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."
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* Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ "#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics"], ''Critical Legal Thinking'' blog, 14 May 2013; [https://monoskop.org/images/9/99/Johnson_Joshua_ed_Dark_Trajectories_Politics_of_the_Outside_2013.pdf#page=136 repr. in] ''Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside'', ed. Joshua Johnson, Hong Kong: Name Publications, Aug 2013; [https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf#page=355 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."
 
** [http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ Translations].  
 
** [http://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ Translations].  
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=26 "Brzine bijega"], trans. Lana Pukanić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-31. {{cr}}
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=26 "Brzine bijega"], trans. Lana Pukanić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-31. {{cr}}
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** ''Manifesto accelerazionista'', postf. Valerio Mattioli, Rome: Laterza, 2018. [https://www.laterza.it/index.php?option=com_laterza&Itemid=97&task=schedalibro&isbn=9788858131244] {{it}}
 
* McKenzie Wark, [https://speculativeheresy.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wark-mckenzie-celerity.pdf "#Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics"], May 2013. [http://speculativeheresy.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/celerity-a-critique-of-the-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/]
 
* McKenzie Wark, [https://speculativeheresy.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wark-mckenzie-celerity.pdf "#Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics"], May 2013. [http://speculativeheresy.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/celerity-a-critique-of-the-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/]
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=43 "#Brzina: Kritika Manifesta za akceleracionističku politiku"], trans. Helena Šintić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 41-48. {{cr}}
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=43 "#Brzina: Kritika Manifesta za akceleracionističku politiku"], trans. Helena Šintić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 41-48. {{cr}}
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* Antonio Negri, [http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1684 "Riflessioni sul Manifesto per una Politica Accelerazionista"], ''EuroNomade'', 7 Feb 2014. {{it}}
 
* Antonio Negri, [http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1684 "Riflessioni sul Manifesto per una Politica Accelerazionista"], ''EuroNomade'', 7 Feb 2014. {{it}}
 
** [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-accelerate-manifesto/ "Some Reflections on the #Accelerate Manifesto"], trans. Vito De Lucia and Connal Parsley, ''Critical Legal Thinking'' blog, 26 Feb 2014.
 
** [http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-accelerate-manifesto/ "Some Reflections on the #Accelerate Manifesto"], trans. Vito De Lucia and Connal Parsley, ''Critical Legal Thinking'' blog, 26 Feb 2014.
** [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/reflections-on-the-%E2%80%9Cmanifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics%E2%80%9D/ "Reflections on the 'Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics'"], trans. Matteo Pasquinelli, ''e-flux'' 53 (Mar 2014); [http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1864 posted on] ''EuroNomade''.
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** [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59877/reflections-on-the-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ "Reflections on the 'Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics'"], trans. Matteo Pasquinelli, ''e-flux'' 53 (Mar 2014); [http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1864 posted on] ''EuroNomade''.
 
* Nick Land, "Annotated #Accelerate", [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-1/ Part 1], [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-2/ Part 2], [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-3/ Part 3], ''Urban Futures'' blog, 14-17 Feb 2014.
 
* Nick Land, "Annotated #Accelerate", [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-1/ Part 1], [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-2/ Part 2], [http://www.ufblog.net/annotated-accelerate-3/ Part 3], ''Urban Futures'' blog, 14-17 Feb 2014.
 
* Nick Land, "On #Accelerate", [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-1/ Part 1], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2a/ Part 2a], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2b/ Part 2b], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2c/ Part 2c], ''Urban Futures'' blog, 5-11 Mar 2014.
 
* Nick Land, "On #Accelerate", [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-1/ Part 1], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2a/ Part 2a], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2b/ Part 2b], [http://www.ufblog.net/on-accelerate-2c/ Part 2c], ''Urban Futures'' blog, 5-11 Mar 2014.
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===Selected books and essays===
 
===Selected books and essays===
 
* [http://www.ufblog.net/category/acceleration/ Nick Land's blog posts on acceleration].
 
* [http://www.ufblog.net/category/acceleration/ Nick Land's blog posts on acceleration].
* Gean Moreno, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/notes-on-the-inorganic-part-i-accelerations/ "Notes on the Inorganic"], ''e-flux'' 31 (Jan 2012).
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* Gean Moreno, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/31/68197/notes-on-the-inorganic-part-i-accelerations/ "Notes on the Inorganic"], ''e-flux'' 31 (Jan 2012); [https://monoskop.org/images/9/99/Johnson_Joshua_ed_Dark_Trajectories_Politics_of_the_Outside_2013.pdf#page=13 repr. in] ''Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside'', ed. Joshua Johnson, Hong Kong: Name Publications, Aug 2013.
* Alex Williams, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/escape-velocities/ "Escape Velocities"], ''e-flux'' 46 (Jun 2013).
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* Alex Williams, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/46/60063/escape-velocities/ "Escape Velocities"], ''e-flux'' 46 (Jun 2013).
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=26 "Brzine bijega"], trans. Lana Pukanić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-31. {{cr}}
 
** [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Libra_Libera_33_Buduclost_2013.pdf#page=26 "Brzine bijega"], trans. Lana Pukanić, ''Libra Libera'' 33, Dec 2013, pp 24-31. {{cr}}
* Benedict Singleton, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/maximum-jailbreak/ "Maximum Jailbreak"], ''e-flux'' 46 (Jun 2013); repr. as [https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf#page=497 "Maximum Jailbreak (Extended Mix)"], in ''#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader'', eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.  
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* Benedict Singleton, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/46/60088/maximum-jailbreak/ "Maximum Jailbreak"], ''e-flux'' 46 (Jun 2013); repr. as [https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf#page=497 "Maximum Jailbreak (Extended Mix)"], in ''#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader'', eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.  
 
* Armen Avanessian, [http://www.academia.edu/4779206 "Criticism - Crisis - Acceleration"], in ''Survival Kits. An Artist's and Thinker's Book'', ed. Deborah Ligorio, Berlin: Sternberg, 2013, pp 56-61.
 
* Armen Avanessian, [http://www.academia.edu/4779206 "Criticism - Crisis - Acceleration"], in ''Survival Kits. An Artist's and Thinker's Book'', ed. Deborah Ligorio, Berlin: Sternberg, 2013, pp 56-61.
 
* Matteo Pasquinelli, [http://matteopasquinelli.com/labour-of-abstraction-theses/ "The Labour of Abstraction: Seven Transitional Theses on Marxism and Accelerationism"], Dec 2013; [http://fillip.ca/content/the-labour-of-abstraction printed in] ''Fillip'' 19 (Jun 2014).
 
* Matteo Pasquinelli, [http://matteopasquinelli.com/labour-of-abstraction-theses/ "The Labour of Abstraction: Seven Transitional Theses on Marxism and Accelerationism"], Dec 2013; [http://fillip.ca/content/the-labour-of-abstraction printed in] ''Fillip'' 19 (Jun 2014).
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* Frédéric Neyrat, "Critique du géo-constructivisme. Anthropocène & géo-ingénierie", ''Multitudes'' 56 (2014), pp 37-47. [http://www.multitudes.net/critique-du-geo-constructivisme-anthropocene-geo-ingenierie/] {{fr}}
 
* Frédéric Neyrat, "Critique du géo-constructivisme. Anthropocène & géo-ingénierie", ''Multitudes'' 56 (2014), pp 37-47. [http://www.multitudes.net/critique-du-geo-constructivisme-anthropocene-geo-ingenierie/] {{fr}}
 
* Nick Srnicek, "Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political", in ''Speculative Aesthetics'', eds. Robin Mackay, James Trafford and Luke Pendrell, Urbanomic, 2014, pp 48-53. [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbK8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32] [https://www.urbanomic.com/chapter/speculative-aesthetics-nick-srnicek-accelerationism/]
 
* Nick Srnicek, "Accelerationism: Epistemic, Economic, Political", in ''Speculative Aesthetics'', eds. Robin Mackay, James Trafford and Luke Pendrell, Urbanomic, 2014, pp 48-53. [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbK8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32] [https://www.urbanomic.com/chapter/speculative-aesthetics-nick-srnicek-accelerationism/]
* Steven Shaviro, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5521248b334fe04c93af1cc6 No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism]'', University of Minnesota Press, Jan 2015, 86 pp. [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/no-speed-limit]
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* Steven Shaviro, ''[http://staging.manifoldapp.org/browse/project/26e2e207-9e89-4fd1-a7e2-9fbac6fc1995 No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism]'', University of Minnesota Press, Jan 2015, 86 pp, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5521248b334fe04c93af1cc6 ARG]. [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/no-speed-limit]
 
* Nina Power, [http://fillip.ca/content/decapitalism-left-scarcity-and-the-state "Decapitalism, Left Scarcity, and the State"], ''Fillip'' 20 (Spring 2015). Based on a paper presented at the Radical Philosophy conference, Berlin, 16 Jan 2015.
 
* Nina Power, [http://fillip.ca/content/decapitalism-left-scarcity-and-the-state "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, [http://tripleampersand.org/accelerated-substance-abuse/ "Accelerated Substance Abuse"], ''&&& Journal'' 0 (Jan 2015). Presented at #Accelerate seminar, The New Centre for Research & Practice, 1 Oct 2014.
 
* Benjamin Noys, [http://tripleampersand.org/accelerated-substance-abuse/ "Accelerated Substance Abuse"], ''&&& Journal'' 0 (Jan 2015). Presented at #Accelerate seminar, The New Centre for Research & Practice, 1 Oct 2014.
 
* Ivan Niccolai, [http://tripleampersand.org/a-response-to-benjamin-noys-critique-of-accelerationism/ "A Response to Benjamin Noys’ Critique of Accelerationism"], ''&&& Journal'' 0 (Jan 2015).
 
* Ivan Niccolai, [http://tripleampersand.org/a-response-to-benjamin-noys-critique-of-accelerationism/ "A Response to Benjamin Noys’ Critique of Accelerationism"], ''&&& Journal'' 0 (Jan 2015).
 
* David Cunningham, [https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp191_article1_cunningham_amarxistheresy.pdf "A Marxist Heresy? Accelerationism and Its Discontents"], ''Radical Philosophy'' 191 (May-Jun 2015), pp 29-38.
 
* David Cunningham, [https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp191_article1_cunningham_amarxistheresy.pdf "A Marxist Heresy? Accelerationism and Its Discontents"], ''Radical Philosophy'' 191 (May-Jun 2015), pp 29-38.
* Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=93ee0954b5e13544bcc88f7bae58e1f8 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work]'', London: Verso, Sep 2015, 256 pp. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future]. [http://thedisorderofthings.com/tag/inventing-the-future/ Online symposium] (Shapiro, J Kay, S Lewis & DM Bell, A Hirst & Houseman, Hoover). Reviews: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/10/inventing-the-future/ Wark] (Public Seminar 2015), [http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-algorithmic-communism/ Lowrie] (LARB 2015), [https://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/reinventing-the-future/ more].
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* Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=93ee0954b5e13544bcc88f7bae58e1f8 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work]'', London: Verso, Sep 2015, 256 pp. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future]. [http://thedisorderofthings.com/tag/inventing-the-future/ Online symposium] (Shapiro, J Kay, S Lewis & DM Bell, A Hirst & Houseman, Hoover). Reviews: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/10/inventing-the-future/ Wark] (Public Seminar 2015), [http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-algorithmic-communism/ Lowrie] (LARB 2015), [https://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia25/parrhesia25_brown.pdf Brown] (Parrhesia 2016), [https://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/reinventing-the-future/ more].
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** ''Inventare il futuro: per un mondo senza lavoro'', trans. Fabio Gironi, Rome: Nero, 2018, 359 pp. [https://not.neroeditions.com/nick-srnicek-alex-williams-inventare-futuro/] {{it}}
 
* Rob Myers, [http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/accelerationist-art "Accelerationist Art"], ''Furtherfield'', 7 Apr 2016.
 
* Rob Myers, [http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/accelerationist-art "Accelerationist Art"], ''Furtherfield'', 7 Apr 2016.
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* Nicholas A. Knouf, [http://staging.manifoldapp.org/read/d2d2b7fa-0974-45f3-879c-f1276c6e449e/section/71897c4b-e802-455d-803f-e12a8f3f97fd#ch05 "Noisy Accelerationism"], ch in Knouf, ''How Noise Matters to Finance'', University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
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* Fred Turner, [https://www.publicbooks.org/on-accelerationism/ "On Accelerationism"], ''Public Books'', 1 Sep 2016, [https://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-Public-Books-%E2%80%94-On-Accelerationism.pdf PDF]. [https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1609/threads.html Nettime discussion].
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** [https://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Turner-FAZ-12-4-2016.pdf "Maschinentraüme"], ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'', 4 Dec 2016, p 55. {{de}}
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* Nick Srnicek, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/583a04929ff37c59d91602e3 Platform Capitalism]'', Polity, 2017.
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* McKenzie Wark, [http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/01/black-accelerationism/ "Black Accelerationism"], ''Public Seminar'', 27 Jan 2017; repr. in Wark, ''[[Media:McKenzie_Wark_Afroaccelerazionismo.pdf|Afro-accelerazionismo / Black Accelerationism]]'', Rizosfera, 2017, pp 51-73.
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** [[Media:McKenzie_Wark_Afroaccelerazionismo.pdf|"Afro-accelerazionismo"]], in Wark, ''[[Media:McKenzie_Wark_Afroaccelerazionismo.pdf|Afro-accelerazionismo / Black Accelerationism]]'', Rizosfera, 2017, pp 13-37. {{it}}
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* Michael E. Gardiner, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0263276416656760 "Critique of Accelerationism"], ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 34:1, 2017, pp 29-52.
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* Anon, [http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/ "#AltWoke Manifesto"], ''&&& Journal'', 5 Feb 2017.
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* [[Media:The_AltWoke_Companion_Apr_2017.pdf|"The #AltWoke Companion"]], Apr 2017, [7] pp. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-83K8nrUzsE4gGAA6UMP1HzNDSTSuy4TXOnbKetXvM0/edit] [https://twitter.com/urbanomicdotcom/status/851203388595372043]
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* Vincent Garton, [https://vincentgarton.com/2017/06/12/unconditional-accelerationism-as-antipraxis/ "Unconditional Accelerationism as Antipraxis"], 12 Jun 2017.
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* Alexander R. Galloway, [http://www.boundary2.org/2017/06/alexander-r-galloway-brometheanism/ "Brometheanism"], ''boundary2'', 21 Jun 2017.
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* Vincent Garton, [https://vincentgarton.com/2017/07/22/excavating-the-origins-of-accelerationism/ "Excavating the Origins of Accelerationism"], 22 Jul 2017.
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* Aria Dean, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/ "Notes on Blaccelerationism"], ''e-flux'' 87, Dec 2017. First presented as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XrAK3YKF1I a lecture] at Reed College, Portland, OR, 8 Sep 2017 (75 min). [https://events.reed.edu/event/cooley_gallery_lecture_aria_dean]
  
 
===Anthologies===
 
===Anthologies===
* [http://www.e-flux.com/issues/46-june-2013/ ''e-flux'' 46: "Accelerationist Aesthetics"], ed. Gean Moreno, Jun 2013. Texts by Williams, Shaviro, Bratton, Roche, Bifo, Fisher, Singleton, Battaglia, MacCormack, and Russell.
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* [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/46/ ''e-flux'' 46: "Accelerationist Aesthetics"], ed. Gean Moreno, Jun 2013. Texts by Williams, Shaviro, Bratton, Roche, Bifo, Fisher, Singleton, Battaglia, MacCormack, and Russell.
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* Joshua Johnson (ed.), ''[[Media:Johnson Joshua ed Dark Trajectories Politics of the Outside 2013.pdf|Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside]]'', Hong Kong: Name Publications, Aug 2013, 155 pp. Texts by Bryant, Moreno, Negarestani, Noys, Srnicek & Williams, Thorne, and Woodard.
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* Armen Avanessian (ed.), ''#Akzeleration'', Berlin: Merve, Dec 2013, 96 pp. Texts by Avanessian, Bifo, Land, McCormack, Noys, Pasquinelli, Srnicek, and Williams. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/467 Publisher], [http://www.academia.edu/5683090/ Introduction]. Review: [http://www.lesenmitlinks.de/akzeleration-1-0/ Drees]. {{de}}  
 
* Armen Avanessian (ed.), ''#Akzeleration'', Berlin: Merve, Dec 2013, 96 pp. Texts by Avanessian, Bifo, Land, McCormack, Noys, Pasquinelli, Srnicek, and Williams. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/467 Publisher], [http://www.academia.edu/5683090/ Introduction]. Review: [http://www.lesenmitlinks.de/akzeleration-1-0/ Drees]. {{de}}  
 
** ''#Acceleratie'', trans. Menno Grootveld and Samuel Vriezen, Leesmagazijn, Nov 2014, 101 pp. [http://leesmagazijn.wordpress.com/28-2/schrijvers/armen-avanessian-red-accelaratie/] {{nl}}
 
** ''#Acceleratie'', trans. Menno Grootveld and Samuel Vriezen, Leesmagazijn, Nov 2014, 101 pp. [http://leesmagazijn.wordpress.com/28-2/schrijvers/armen-avanessian-red-accelaratie/] {{nl}}
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** ''Akselerasjon'', trans. Anders Dunker, Oslo: Existenz, 2021, 126 pp. [https://existenz.no/boker/akselerasjon.html] {{no}}
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* Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=16969 #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader]'', Falmouth: Urbanomic, and Berlin: Merve, May 2014, 536 pp, [http://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf PDF], [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/4f13b6a415bf5d5cbb144dd6db992199#0.01 ARG]. Texts by Fisher, Srnicek and Williams, Negri, Terranova, Parisi, Negarestani, Brassier, Singleton, Land, Reed, Bauer, and the section on "a genealogy of accelerationism". [http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_accelerate.php Publisher]. Reviews: [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/turn-down-for-what/ Harris] (New Inquiry), [http://artreview.com/reviews/sep_2014_book_review_accelerate_the_accelerationist_reader/ Charlesworth] (ArtReview), [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/missing-subject-accelerationism O'Sullivan] (Mute), [http://review31.co.uk/article/view/269/siding-with-the-machines Andrews] (Review31), [http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/books2043/ Read] (Frieze). Commentaries: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/10/accelerate-in-reverse/ Wark] (Public Seminar), [https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp191_article1_cunningham_amarxistheresy.pdf Cunningham] (Radical Philosophy).
 
* Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=16969 #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader]'', Falmouth: Urbanomic, and Berlin: Merve, May 2014, 536 pp, [http://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Robin%20Mackay/Accelerate%20(2554)/Accelerate%20-%20Robin%20Mackay.pdf PDF], [http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/4f13b6a415bf5d5cbb144dd6db992199#0.01 ARG]. Texts by Fisher, Srnicek and Williams, Negri, Terranova, Parisi, Negarestani, Brassier, Singleton, Land, Reed, Bauer, and the section on "a genealogy of accelerationism". [http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_accelerate.php Publisher]. Reviews: [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/turn-down-for-what/ Harris] (New Inquiry), [http://artreview.com/reviews/sep_2014_book_review_accelerate_the_accelerationist_reader/ Charlesworth] (ArtReview), [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/missing-subject-accelerationism O'Sullivan] (Mute), [http://review31.co.uk/article/view/269/siding-with-the-machines Andrews] (Review31), [http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/books2043/ Read] (Frieze). Commentaries: [http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/10/accelerate-in-reverse/ Wark] (Public Seminar), [https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp191_article1_cunningham_amarxistheresy.pdf Cunningham] (Radical Philosophy).
 
* Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay (eds.), ''#Akzeleration#2'', trans. Moritz Gansen and Hannah Wallenfels, Berlin: Merve, 2014, 176 pp. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/478 Publisher]. Texts by Brassier, Land, Negri, Parisi, Srnicek, Terranova and Williams. {{de}}  
 
* Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay (eds.), ''#Akzeleration#2'', trans. Moritz Gansen and Hannah Wallenfels, Berlin: Merve, 2014, 176 pp. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/478 Publisher]. Texts by Brassier, Land, Negri, Parisi, Srnicek, Terranova and Williams. {{de}}  
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* Armen Avanessian, Helen Hester (eds.), ''dea ex machina'', trans. Stephan Geene, Gesine Strempel and Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Berlin: Merve, 2015, 160 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, Laboria Cuboniks, Lisa Nakamura, Alexandra Pirici, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Raluca Voinea. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/488] Book launch: [http://www.facebook.com/events/823595284397431/ Berlin]. Commentary: [http://www.codepoetics.com/blog/2015/06/02/transits-notes-on-the-xenofeminist-manifesto/ Fox] (2015).{{de}}
 
* Armen Avanessian, Helen Hester (eds.), ''dea ex machina'', trans. Stephan Geene, Gesine Strempel and Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Berlin: Merve, 2015, 160 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, Laboria Cuboniks, Lisa Nakamura, Alexandra Pirici, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Raluca Voinea. [http://www.merve.de/index.php/book/show/488] Book launch: [http://www.facebook.com/events/823595284397431/ Berlin]. Commentary: [http://www.codepoetics.com/blog/2015/06/02/transits-notes-on-the-xenofeminist-manifesto/ Fox] (2015).{{de}}
 
* Václav Janoščík, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling (eds.), ''Reinventing Horizons'', Prague: tranzit.cz, 2016. [http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=259 Introduction]. [http://www.academia.edu/23872705/] [http://cz.tranzit.org/en/lecture_discussion/0/2016-03-18/reinventing-horizons]  
 
* Václav Janoščík, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling (eds.), ''Reinventing Horizons'', Prague: tranzit.cz, 2016. [http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=259 Introduction]. [http://www.academia.edu/23872705/] [http://cz.tranzit.org/en/lecture_discussion/0/2016-03-18/reinventing-horizons]  
* Ed Keller, Tim Matts, Benjamin Noys (eds.), ''Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult'', 2 vols., Punctum Books, (forthcoming 2016). [http://www.academia.edu/7092533/ Introduction], [http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=366073190225716&id=365898326909869 Contributors].
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* Mauro Reis, Armen Avanessian (eds.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/604d0a7c9ff37c1ed22e81eb Aceleracionismo: estrategias para una transición hacia el postcapitalismo]'', trans. Mauro Reis, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2017, 304 pp. [https://cajanegraeditora.com.ar/libros/aceleracionismo/] {{es}}
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* Tim Matts, Benjamin Noys, Dane Sutherland (eds.), ''Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult'', 2 vols., Punctum Books, forthcoming?. [http://www.academia.edu/7092533/ Introduction], [http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=366073190225716&id=365898326909869 Contributors]. [https://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1101106747916247040]
  
 
===Journal issues===
 
===Journal issues===
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==Documentary film==
 
==Documentary film==
* ''Hyperstition'', dir. Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian, 2016, 102 min. [https://player.vimeo.com/video/146435027 15-minute excerpt]. [http://hyperstition.org/] [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hyperstition/167803565]
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* ''Hyperstition'', dir. Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian, 2015, 102 min. [https://player.vimeo.com/video/146435027 15-minute excerpt]. [http://hyperstition.org/] [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hyperstition/167803565]
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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"Accelerationism is [the name of a contemporary] political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, or critique, nor to await its demise at the hands of its own contradictions, but to accelerate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. The term was introduced into political theory to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of philosophical thought with the excesses of capitalist culture (or anticulture), embodied in writings that sought an immanence with this process of alienation. The uneasy status of this impulse, between subversion and acquiescence, between realist analysis and poetic exacerbation, has made accelerationism a fiercely-contested theoretical stance. At the basis of all accelerationist thought lies the assertion that the crimes, contradictions and absurdities of capitalism have to be countered with a politically and theoretically progressive attitude towards its constituent elements." (Mackay and Avanessian, 2014:4)

Events

Authors, Initiatives

Writings

Noys

Talks
Primary references

Noys: "In my critical account [The Persistence of the Negative], accelerationism originates as an explicit theory in the early 1970s in three main works [listed below]. The common origin lies in the recognition that capitalism forms the dominant horizon, subsuming not only forms of life but also strategies of opposition," (from his June 2013 interview). "[These three texts] reply to Marx’s contention that ‘[t]he real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself’, by arguing that we must crash through this barrier by turning capitalism against itself. They are an exotic variant of la politique du pire: if capitalism generates its own forces of dissolution then the necessity is to radicalise capitalism itself: the worse the better. We can call this tendency accelerationism," (passage) (pp 4-6).

#Accelerate Manifesto and commentaries

Selected books and essays

Anthologies

  • 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. [19] (Dutch)
    • Akselerasjon, trans. Anders Dunker, Oslo: Existenz, 2021, 126 pp. [20] (Norwegian)
  • 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)
  • Matteo Pasquinelli (ed.), Gli algoritmi del capitale. Accelerazionismo, macchine della conoscenza e autonomia del comune, Verona: Ombrecorte, Sep 2014. Texts by Williams and Srnicek, Negri, Bifo, Pasquinelli, Dyer-Witheford, Bunz, Harney, Terranova, Vercellone, and Marazzi. [21] Review: Fumagalli (2014). (Italian)
  • Armen Avanessian, Helen Hester (eds.), dea ex machina, trans. Stephan Geene, Gesine Strempel and Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Berlin: Merve, 2015, 160 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, Laboria Cuboniks, Lisa Nakamura, Alexandra Pirici, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Raluca Voinea. [22] Book launch: Berlin. Commentary: Fox (2015).(German)
  • Václav Janoščík, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling (eds.), Reinventing Horizons, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2016. Introduction. [23] [24]
  • Mauro Reis, Armen Avanessian (eds.), Aceleracionismo: estrategias para una transición hacia el postcapitalismo, trans. Mauro Reis, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2017, 304 pp. [25] (Spanish)
  • Tim Matts, Benjamin Noys, Dane Sutherland (eds.), Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult, 2 vols., Punctum Books, forthcoming?. Introduction, Contributors. [26]

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. [27] (Czech)
  • Cesura // Acceso 3: "Sticky Tics, Unclocked Territory: Accelerationist aesthetics and music", forthcoming 2016. [28]
  • Inter/Alia: A Journal of Queer Studies, Special Issue on Accelerofeminisms, eds. Rafal Majka and Michael O’Rourke, forthcoming. [29]

Interviews

Blogs

Nick Srnicek (Synthetic Edifice), Nick Land (Urban Future), London-based PhD-students (Accelerationism: Cosmism, Prometheanism, New Enlightenment), Craig Hickman (Alien Ecologies).

More

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, [30]; repr. in Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, eds. Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier, Urbanomic, 2011, pp 441-459. [31]. 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 Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • Iain Hamilton Grant, "Los Angeles 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis (Some Realist Notes on Blade Runner and the Postmodern Condition)" [1997]; printed as "LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis", in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • CCRU, "Cybernetic Culture"; repr. in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.
  • CCRU, "Swarmachines", Abstract Culture 1, Coventry: CCRU, 1997, [32]; repr. in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, eds. Armen Avanessian and Robin Mackay, Urbanomic, 2014.

Documentary film

See also


Studies

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