Malign Velocities Accelerationism and Capitalism

Notes

Preface

1. Hartmut Rosa, Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality (Malmö: NSU Press, 2010), p.9.

1. Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, intro. Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2013, ebook).

1. Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), pp.4–9.

Introduction

1. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), pp.239–40.

1. Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Letter to Jacob Burckhardt, Turin, January 1889’, in Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. and trans. Christopher Middleton (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996), p.347 (trans. mod.).

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Manifesto of the Communist Party’ [1848], Marxists Internet Archive (2004): http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communistmanifesto/

1. Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy [1974], trans. Iain Hamilton Grant (London: Athlone, 1993), p.214.

1. Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), p.13.

1. Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death [1976], trans. Iain Hamilton Grant, intro. Mike Gane (London: Sage, 1993), p.4.

1. Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production [1973], trans. Mark Poster (New York: Telos Press, 1975), p.17.

1. Lyotard, Libidinal Economy, p.109.

1. Ibid., p.110.

1. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim [1900], Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5658

1. Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy [1847], Marxists Internet Archive (2009): http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Povertyhilosophy.pdf

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

1. Nick Land, ‘No Future’ (1995), in Fanged Noumena.

1. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, p.9.

1. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. Denis Redmond, Marxists Internet Archive (2005) #33: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1951/mm/

1. Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics, p.75.

1. See Katherine Sharpe, ‘I Heard Beauty Dying’: The Cultural Critique of Plastic in Gravity’s Rainbow (unpublished MA thesis, Cornell University, 2007): http://hdl.handle.net/1813/5906

1. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow [1973] (London: Picador, 1975), p.285; further page references in text.

1. Christian Kerslake, ‘Rebirth through Incest: on Deleuze’s early Jungianism’, Angelaki 9.1 (2004): 135–157.

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

1. Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium (London: Paladin, 1970).

1. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle [1967], #138, Marxists Internet Archive: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

1. Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, ‘Communism is back but we should call it the therapy of singularisation’, Generation Online (2009): http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp\_bifo6.htm

1. Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropolous Angela, ‘In Praise of Ursura’, Mute vol. 2 #13 (2009): 92–107, p.107: http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/praise-usura

1. Antonio Negri, ‘No New Deal is possible’, trans. Arianna Bove, Radical Philosophy 155 (2009): 2–5.

1. Gopal Balakrishnan, ‘Speculations’, p.7 n.2.

1. Michael Heinrich, ‘Crisis Theory, the Law of the Tendency of the Profit Rate to Fall, and Marx’s Studies in the 1870s’, Monthly Review 64.11 (2013): http://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/crisis-theory-the-law-ofthe-tendency-of-the-profit-rate-to-fall-and-marxs-studies-in-the-1870s

1. Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London: Merlin Press, 1971), p.181; further page references in text.

1. Antonio Negri, Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy, trans. ed. Timothy S. Murphy, trans. Arianna Bove, Ed Emery, Timothy S. Murphy and Francesca Novello (London and New York: Verso, 2005), p.27.

1. Ibid., p.27; my italics.

1. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).

1. Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject [1982], trans. and intro. Bruno Bosteels (London: Continuum, 2009), p.109; further page

references in text.

1. Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life, trans. Isabella Bertolleti, James Cascaito and Andrea Casson, foreword by Sylvère Lotringer (Los Angeles and New York: Semiotext(e), 2005), pp.10–11.

1. Karl Marx, The German Ideology.

1. Balakrishnan, ‘Speculations’, p.16.

Chapter 6

1. Félix Guattari, La revolution moléculaire (Fontenay-sous-Bois: Editions Recherches, 1977), p.17.

1. Alain Badiou, The Century, p.45.

1. Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess, ed. and intro. Allan Stoekl (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1985), p.92; further page references in text.

1. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (London: Routledge, 1994), pp.81–87.

1. Jean-Joseph Goux, ‘General Economics and Postmodern Capitalism’, Yale French Studies 78 (1990): 206–224.

1. Charles Fleming, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess (London: Bloomsbury, 1999).

1. Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (London and New York: Verso, 2006), pp.137–50.

1. Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production.

1. Norman O. Brown, Life against Death (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977), p.179.

1. Eli Zaretsky, ‘Obituary: Norman O. Brown (1913-2002)’, Radical Philosophy 118 (2003): 50–52: http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/norman-o-brown-1913%E2%80%932002

1. Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki, Speaking About Godard (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp.85–142.

1. Ibid., p.89.

1. Brian Henderson, ‘Toward a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style’, Film Quarterly 24.2 (1970-71): 2–14, p.2.

1. Jonathan Swift, ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’ (1732), ed. Jack Lynch: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/\~jlynch/Texts/dressing.html

1. Farocki, Speaking, p.91.

1. Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend / Wind from the East (London: Lorrimer Publishing, 1972), p.98.

Chapter 7

1. Fredric Jameson, ‘Dresden’s Clocks’, New Left Review 71 (2011): 141–152, p.150.

1. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings vol. 4, p.402.

1. Ibid., p.393.

1. Ibid., p.45.

1. Ibid., p.45.

1. Benjamin, SW, vol. 2, part 2, p.733.

1. Walter Benjamin, ‘Conversations with Brecht’, New Left Review I/77 (1973): 51–57, p.56.

1. Benjamin, SW vol. 2, part 2, pp.541–542.

1. Irving Wohlfarth, ‘No-Man’s-Land: On Walter Benjamin’s “Destructive Character”’, Diacritics 8.2 (1978): 47–65, p.53.

1. Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method, p.8.

1. Ibid., p.8.

1. Ibid., p.149; my italics.

1. Bertolt Brecht, Short Stories 1921-1946, ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim (London: Methuen, 1983), pp.77–85; further page references in text.

1. Benjamin, SW vol. 2, part 2, p.734.

Conclusion

1. Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, After the Future, ed. Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thorburn, (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2011), p.138.

1. Timothy Brennan, Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (London and New York: Verso, 2008), p.167.

1. Ibid., pp. 167–8.

1. Srnicek and Williams, ‘On Cunning Automata’.

1. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, ‘#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics’, in Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. Joshua Johnson (Hong Kong: [Name] Publications, 2013), pp.135–155, p.140.

1. Ibid., p.140.

1. Ibid.

1. Srnicek and Williams, ‘On Cunning Automata’.

1. Adorno, Minima Moralia, #100.

1. Alex Williams, ‘Back to the Future? Technopolitics and the Legacy of the CCRU’, ‘The Death of Rave’ event, Berlin, 1 February 2013: http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/radio/eb-listening/the-deathof-rave-panel-discussions-from-ctm-13/

1. Franco Barchiesi, Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa (New York: SUNY Press, 2011).

1. Lyotard, Duchamp’s Transformers, p.15.

1. Nick Land, ‘Critique of Transcendental Miserablism’, in Fanged Noumena.