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Obsolete Capitalism :: Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (Rizosfera/SF002.eng)

We continue the exploration of the sources behind the contemporary accelerationist movement, which lie at the end of the paragraph entitled «The Civilized Capitalist Machine». (AE 239-240) By contemporary we mean the period from the 90’s to today, thus including Nick Land and the Ccru collective’s reflections on the first accelerationist wave. The si-multaneous reading of Christian Kerslake’s Marxism and Money in Deleuze and Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizofrenia (2015) and Matteo Pasquinelli’s notes in Code Surplus Value and the Augmented Intellect (2014) has highlighted the persistence of a troubled interpretation of one of the most significant and pivotal passages of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-OEdipus. Moreover an unfair and blind «conventio ad excludendum» on Nietzsche from the accelerationist side, is remarkably present. In #Accelerate, the constitutive anthology of accelerationism, we immediately detect a noisy silence about Nietzsche. (...)