Main entry:

Noys, Benjamin, 1969- author.

Title & Author:

Malign velocities : accelerationism & capitalism / Benjamin Noys.

Publication:

Winchester, UK : Zero Books, 2014.

Description:

1 online resource (xii, 117 pages .)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: 'Accelerate the Process'; The Bad New; The Destructive Element; Heretics of Marx; The Road of Excess; 1. War Machines; Cruel Razors of Velocity; In the Lunapark; Mechanical Asceticism; Unknown Soldiers; 2. Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!: Communist Accelerationism; In the Highest Degree Tragic; Iron Man; Tempos Decide Everything; Storming Heaven; 3. Machine-Being; Mystical Machines; Rocketman; Sex-Work-Machine; 4. Cyberpunk Phuturism; The Thrill and Threat of Materialization; Techno-Phuturism; Cybergothic Remix.
Stasis Today5. Apocalyptic Acceleration; Immanent Tendencies; Deviations of the Tendency; Through a Glass Darkly; 6. Terminal Acceleration; Wallowing in the Mud; Barbarism or Barbarism?; 7. Emergency Brake; Over the Dead Body of Capitalism; The Slob; Angelic Locomotives; Revolutions per Minute; Conclusion: The Moving Contradiction; A Supposedly Fun Thing; Impossible Labor; People are Afraid to Merge; Notes.

Summary:

Against the need for speed, Malign Velocities tracks acceleration as the symptom of the ongoing crises of capitalism.

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ISBN:

1782792996 (electronic bk.)
9781782792994 (electronic bk.)
1782793003
9781782793007

Subject:

Capitalism Philosophy.
Time Sociological aspects.
Temps Aspect sociologique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Reference.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.