Slow Down
On Benjamin Noys’ Critique of Accelerationism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Barker (0000-0001-6679-1026, Kyung Hee University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-235 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2016.1182743 |
| OpenAlex | W2404578534 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper reviews Benjamin Noys’ recent attempt in Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism to mount a critique of accelerationism. The book, persuasive in certain respects, bypasses the institutional dynamics of accelerationism’s theoretical progenitors, viz. Nick Land and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru) of Warwick University, and instead portrays it as a “defeatist strategy” of the post-’68 conjuncture of “Deleuzian Thatcherism.” Such portrayal is debatable to the extent that it exhibits a questionable appropriation of “theory” in the strict sense of the term; a term the paper attempts to define with reference to Matthew Arnold, Louis Althusser and Gilles Grelet
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Capitalism · Epistemology · Late capitalism · Political science · Sociology · Term (time · Thatcherism · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |