On #Accelerate

This is a good charting of the intellectual genealogy of accelerationism, from Marx down to the time of publication. It breaks into four large sections: Marx and early technics, poststructuralism, the CCRU and the literature around it, and contemporary accelerationism.

Some of the texts are extraordinarily dense and theoretical — I had a hard time making heads or tails of them, and I’m not sure I fully get it; it may take time to sink in. If I’m honest, I couldn’t make any sense of Negarestani’s essay on the Inhuman. The introduction is a serviceable overview, but it would have made a real difference to preface the individual texts with more context and a sense of how each fits the whole. For some — the entire first section, the selections from Anti-Oedipus and Libidinal Economy, Land’s work — it’s obvious; for others, much less so.