speed and politics -- now even speedier
What better season that this, for TiR finally to get around to reading
#Accelerate:The Accelerationist Reader (2014), cover to cover, word for word?
About those words, below is TiR's list of our favorites in the book.
In order of appearance:
miscognition
outputted
thanatizing
hypersemically
bio-hypermedia
homotheism
swingeing
fictioning
compaction
commonist
in-principle
eccentrication
search-space
hyperstitional
infusoria
actinic
schiz
schizophrenize
schizophrenization
afflux
cathexes
orphan fluxes
schizo-flows
castratees
quanta
glacis
pruritus
perfusing
demusicalized
kinematics
apparati
defalcating
schizzed
scrobicular
technosentience
mythemes
cybercosm
escalative
psychocops
neuroticization
animalcule
anastrophically
cybernegative
cyberpositive
futural
retrocursive
cyberpositivity
mnemic
laminar
alibied
xenogenesis
demensuration
demopathy
dirempted
erotropisms
thanatropisms
epistodollar
praxodollar
technoyen
ochrous
distal
pre-immersive
pre-integrant
phyllic
biosofts
biodespotism
zerosion
wetware
anastrophe
immuno-politics
auto-toxicus
data-fat
worldweb
virekonomics
egggg-laying
k-space
automummification
Eurocontinence
EU-1
EU-2
Loatronic
riotswarm
cerebral core-texts
metrophage
nomoid
beehivelocity
scriborgs
snowcrash
chaosmosis
Canutism
cognitarat
preadaptations
socius
agent-based
informatization
becoming-hegemonic
commonism
commonfare
user-actants
urban-scale
interfacial
biblio-machine
netarchical
4dsocial
B-spline
emergentism
vitalism
finitary
discretize
axiomatisation
interventive
error-tolerant
contentfulness
supervenience
abductive non-monotonicity
noetic
commitment-abilities
decomposability
contumacy
purpose-attainment
commitment-updating
escapology
technicity
techonomic
cross-excited
aboriginally-deficient
shoggothic
Google-strewn
teleoplexy
deutero-teleology
teleonomy
extropy
quasi-finally
technogenesis
mega-agencies
neo-futurist-fascist
alter-future
reorientate
vectorial
decalcify
techno-dictatorial
Briefly, our only regret is that the Reader only once includes the phrase "politique du pire." The introduction (readable
here as .pdf) admits that the Accelerationist stance courts a major risk, "a cynical resignation to a
politique du pire, a politics that must hope for the worst and can think the future only as apocalypse and tabula rasa."
Elsewhere, Benjamin Noys has called Accelerationism "an exotic variant of
la politique du pire: if capitalism generates its own forces of dissolution then the necessity is to radicalise capitalism itself: the worse the better."
Would that the Reader could be reprinted with an entire section kicking around the ideas contained in the above-mentioned politics, worthy of a moment so deeply
infused with the
nihilistic spirit of "
smash everything," "
burn it down" and
sh!t-up-f*kking. It's all really quite thanatizing and scrobicular.
More on this tome later, perhaps, if TiR can rouse itself from its usual torpor. Fat chance.
posted by TiR at 7:01 AM
