Benjamin Noys: Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · accelerationism, capitalism, communism, cyberpunk, futurism, labour, machine, marxism, movement, philosophy, speed, technology
“We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, Malign Velocities tracks this ‘accelerationism‘ as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism – the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the ‘cyberpunk phuturism’ of the ’90s and ’00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism – suggests the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage, negate, and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures of speed.”
Publisher Zero Books, 2014
ISBN 1782793003, 9781782793007
130 pages
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Comment (0)Karla Jasso: Arte-tecnología: Arqueología, dialéctica, mediación (2013) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, machine, mechanics, media, media archeology, media theory, mediation, music, negative dialectics, technology
A volume on art, media theory and media archaeology with chapters on Adorno, Kittler, Zielinski, Athanasius Kircher and Alejandro Favián, based on author’s dissertation thesis in art history defended at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2012.
Self-published in Ciudad de Mexico, 2013
329 pages
PDF
on Academia.edu (from the author)
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Friedrich Kittler: Short Cuts (2002) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · computing, film, literary theory, literature, machine, media, media theory, military, music, surveillance, technology
A collection of essays and interviews.
Dass er seit eineinhalb Jahrzehnten den Geisteswissenschaften ihren Computer-Analphabetismus vorbuchstabiert, hat Friedrich Kittler vor allen akademischen Ehren den Titel des “Enfant incompatible der Humanities” eingebracht. Aus dem Inhalt: Interviews mit Alexander Kluge, Über Michel Foucault, Computeranalphabetismus, Das Jahrhundert der Landvermesser, Der Kopf schrumpft, Der Schleier des Luftkrieges, Gespräch mit Paul Virilio, Die Zukunft auf Siliziumbasis, Interview mit Peter Weibel, Jeder kennt den CIA, Krieg im Schaltkreis, Medien und Drogen in Pynchons Zweitem Weltkrieg, Memories are made of you, Provisorische Maschinen, provisorische Moral, Rock Musik: Ein Missbrauch von Heeresgerät.
Edited by Peter Gente and Martin Weinmann
Publisher Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, 2002
Short Cuts series, 6
ISBN 3861504243, 9783861504245
288 pages
Kittler’s bibliography at Monoskop wiki
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