#Accelerate

#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader Robin Mackay & Armen Avanessian (eds.)Urbanomic and Merve VerlagMay 2014Paperback 115x175mmISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7 Special edition of 25 copies with Diann Bauer print $140For orders & information, contact post@sequencepress.com   Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. The term was coined to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of theory with the excess and abandon of capitalist culture, and the associated performative aesthetic of texts that seek to become immanent to the very process of alienation. Developing at the dawn of contemporary neoliberal consensus, the uneasy status of this impulse, between subversion and acquiescence, between theoretical purchase and aesthetic enjoyment, constitutes