Malign Velocities
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Malign Velocities

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.

  • TitleMalign Velocities
  • BrandZero Books
  • ManufacturerZer0 Books
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumber99324
  • ReleaseDate2014-10-31T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9781782793007