File:Edmund Berger Underground Streams.pdf

Edmund Berger :: Underground Streams. A Micro-History of Hyperstition and Esoteric Resistance (Rizosfera/The Strong of the Future, SF008.eng, 2017) - Free Download E.book, License by Creative Commons 4.0

It is with great pleasure that we republish this micro-history essay by Edmund Berger written in 2014 for the accelerationist reader Dark Glamour. For various reasons (turnover of editors and curators) the essay has never been published and there- fore we think it deserves to be presented in its rst form. By the end of 2017 a new version of the same essay will be completely rewritten by Edmund Berger and published for the project Dark Glamour. It will be a two volume collection of essays with Amy Ireland (exponent of the xeno-feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks), Tony Yanick, and Tim Matts as editors. «Underground Streams» (2014) has been written a year before the classic Grungy Accelerationism (2015) and it represents the essay where Edmund Berger faces with the first accelerationist thought (Land and CCRU) and the second one (Srnicek and Williams) that he defines Neo-Accelerationism. What we wish to underline in this foreword is the reconfirmation of Berger’s ability to deeply grasp the meaning of the «Underground Streams» that characterized XX century «hyperstitional» thought and to clearly define the perimeter of hy- perstitional area and the contiguous esoteric resistance. Here lies the trait d’union between Underground Streams and Grungy Accelerationism...

Edmund Berger is an independent writer, researcher, and activist living in Louisville, Kentucky. His primary focuses are on the evolution of technology and its impact on changing modes of capitalist production, the role of warfare in the economy, and the history of the avant-gardes as critiques and responses to paradigms of power. He blogs intermittently at Deterritorial Investigations Unit and Synthetic Zero. His debut books is "Uncertain Futures. An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present" (Zero books, 2017). Rizosfera has published his essay "Grungy Accelerationism" (The Strong of the Future, 2016).