The Weaver Reads reviewed #Accelerate by Reza Negarestani
Goodreads Review of #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
4 stars
This is a good text charting the intellectual genealogy of accelerationism from Marx to the time of publication. The sections effectively break down into four large categories: Marx and early technics, poststructuralism, the CCRU and CCRU-adjacent literature, and contemporary accelerationism.
Some of the texts are incredibly dense and theoretical—it was hard for me to make heads or tails of them, and I’m not sure I fully get it. It might be a matter of time for it to sink it. If I’m totally honest, though, I couldn’t make any sense of Negarestani’s essay on the Inhuman.
The introduction to the text is a serviceable overview, but it would have made a big difference if the individual texts were prefaced with further context and how they fit into the larger whole. Some are obvious, like the whole first section, the selections from Anti-Oedipus, Libidinal Economy, and Nick Land’s oeuvre, but others …
This is a good text charting the intellectual genealogy of accelerationism from Marx to the time of publication. The sections effectively break down into four large categories: Marx and early technics, poststructuralism, the CCRU and CCRU-adjacent literature, and contemporary accelerationism.
Some of the texts are incredibly dense and theoretical—it was hard for me to make heads or tails of them, and I’m not sure I fully get it. It might be a matter of time for it to sink it. If I’m totally honest, though, I couldn’t make any sense of Negarestani’s essay on the Inhuman.
The introduction to the text is a serviceable overview, but it would have made a big difference if the individual texts were prefaced with further context and how they fit into the larger whole. Some are obvious, like the whole first section, the selections from Anti-Oedipus, Libidinal Economy, and Nick Land’s oeuvre, but others were much less so.
