Malign Velocities Accelerationism and Capitalism

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

1. Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street, p.358.

1. William Topaz McGonagall, ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’, McGonagall Online: http://www.mcgonagallonline.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster

Conclusion

1. V.I. Lenin, ‘Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder’ [1920], Marxists Internet Archive (1999): https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

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. Srnicek and Williams, ‘On Cunning Automata’.

1. Ibid.

1. Adorno, Minima Moralia, #100.

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