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Malign Velocities

Author : Benjamin Noys
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782792996
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Malign Velocities written by Benjamin Noys and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, /Malign Velocities/ tracks this 'accelerationism' as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism - the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the 'cyberpunk phuturism' of the ’90s and ’00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism - suggests the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage, negate, and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures of speed.

Persistence of the Negative

Author : Benjamin Noys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748655204
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Persistence of the Negative written by Benjamin Noys and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and compelling critique of contemporary Continental theory through a rehabilitation of the negative.

Georges Bataille

Author : Bejamin Noys
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745315874
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Georges Bataille written by Bejamin Noys and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-05-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Subversive Image -- 2. Inner Experience -- 3. Sovereignty -- 4. The Tears of Eros -- 5. The Accursed Share -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Bibiliography -- Index

Reading the Way of Things

Author : Daniel Coffeen
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785354159
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Way of Things written by Daniel Coffeen and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian guide to reading the world, Reading the Way of Things is an exploration of the ideas of McLuhan, Deleuze, Guattari, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Burroughs, and more. It is a book that aims at getting the reader past teleological interpretations and questions, letting the reader in on new ways of doing criticism as well as new ways of going, being, and thinking.

Hearing the Cloud

Author : Emile Frankel
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785358391
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Hearing the Cloud written by Emile Frankel and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can music be a curse? Here is an alternate history of online politics and new technology from the perspective of listening, typing, composing, and shared hearing. Emile Frankel presents a rigorous account of a world felt to be in crisis. The aesthetic and tonal ramifications for such feelings are twisted within the oppressive online structures mediating new music. The legacies of Silicon Valley digitalism, 4chan, Less Wrong, and Chaos Magic are compared to the magical thinking which underlies stochastic composition, and the aesthetics of deconstructed club music. Despite a pessimistic account of Accelerationism and reactionary philosophy, Frankel's spirited writing is full of hope. Hearing the Cloud considers the communal online conversations we engage in daily as profound acts of defiance. Sweet, lithe, oily, and honest music is shown to be an important source of togetherness.

#Accelerate

Author : Robin Mackay
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 095752952X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book #Accelerate written by Robin Mackay and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. 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. #Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike. On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own “Prometheanism,” and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century. At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of “reasonable” contemporary political alternatives.

Working the Phones

Author : Jamie Woodcock
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745399065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Working the Phones written by Jamie Woodcock and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marxist investigation into the forms of resistance occurring in the UK call centre today

The Ballerina and the Bull

Author : Johanna Isaacson
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910924113
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Ballerina and the Bull written by Johanna Isaacson and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011. Against the vacuity and drift of financialized capitalism, proclaiming there is no alternative, these insurgent movements have insisted that an alternative is possible. In The Ballerina and the Bull Johanna Isaacson explores the occult history of US punk, hardcore, queercore, and riot grrrl, DIY culture, and alternative subcultures to trace a new politics of expressive negation that both contests the present order and gives us a sense of the impasses of politics in an age of depoliticization. Expressive negation registers the contradictory politics at the heart of these projects: the desire for negation that must be positively expressed. Drawing on first- hand experience, interviews, and discussion of the ludic, spatial, and sexual politics of anarchist subcultures, Isaacson maps an underground utopian politics of style and develops a radically new history of the present moment.

Melancology

Author : Scott Wilson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780991908
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Melancology written by Scott Wilson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that ‘blackens’ the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins ‘black’ and ‘ecology’: melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces that the question of intervention in the environment arises in the articulation of melancology with ethics. That is, in deciding ‘which way out’ we should take, in deciding with what surpluses to dwell, with what waste, what detritus or decay in a process of unbinding with sonic forces that traverse an earth choking in wealth and death. The book thus provides a provocative and challenging contribution both to popular and intellectual debates on ecology.

Can The Market Speak?

Author : Campbell Jones
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782790853
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Can The Market Speak? written by Campbell Jones and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said the market has moods and desires. It is said that we must listen to it and must anticipate how it will respond to our actions. What is the significance of these peculiar forms of speech? This book investigates the conceptual underpinnings of the idea that the market has intentions, consciousness and speech, and identifies the social and political consequences of this attribution to the market of capacities generally thought to be uniquely human. At once a work of philosophy, a cultural and social archaeology and a diagnosis of one of the central ideologies of our times, this book cuts to the heart of the linguistic forms through which our collective futures are decided. ,

Night of the World

Author : Frank Smecker
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782791795
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Night of the World written by Frank Smecker and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By situating objectivity at the level of ideology, while placing it within a dynamic, experimental and, at times, unorthodox interplay with Hegelian and Lacanian philosophy, The Night of the World offers a unique and radical re-thinking of objectivity. Encompassing a constellational array of wide-ranging subjects, from popular culture, politics, history, science, and philosophy, while deploying an engaging prose that is both incisive and seamlessly tangential, Smecker is both an ally with, and emerging voice in, the field of Zizekian dialectics. Incorporating Zizek's philosophy, Smecker speculates over both objectivity and ideology, evoking methods of thought not so prevalent since German Idealism was all the rage. In the spirit of Kierkegaard, The Night of the World is the result of an imaginative hypothesis. And that is only the half of it. Written in a style that will undoubtedly leave the reader itching to read it again once finished, The Night of the World is an ongoing engagement with an abundance of additional postulations, whose sole purpose is to produce more products of thought. ,

Circus Philosophicus

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846946026
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Circus Philosophicus written by Graham Harman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonic myth meets American noir in this haunting collection of philosophical images, from gigantic Ferris wheels to offshore drilling rigs.

Literary Freedom

Author : Heather Katherine McRobie
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780998791
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Literary Freedom written by Heather Katherine McRobie and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature is a non-fiction study of literary freedom from a political-philosophical perspective. It adds an original perspective on the issue of literary freedom as it synthesizes debates from human rights as well as providing a new way of addressing the question 'How do we mitigate against the harm caused by hate speech?' by applying Amartya Sen's capability approach to this question. ,

Inventing the Future

Author : Nick Srnicek
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780987
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Future written by Nick Srnicek and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

Hontology

Author : Mark Payne
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785357328
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Hontology written by Mark Payne and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx has had an enormous influence on recent thought about the fate of human capabilities in late capitalism, especially in Europe. Hontology explores a road not taken in Specters of Marx - the idea that shame is the route by which we access the capabilities for living that are abrogated in modernity. More particularly still, the book considers the loss of the New World as an horizon in which these abrogated capabilities were still in play, and the inhabitants of the New World as presenting forms of life before which Europeans felt shame in comparison with their own. Finally, the book discusses what might take the place of the New World now that its productive horizon of shame has receded from view.

Serkeftin

Author : Marcel Cartier
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789040132
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Serkeftin written by Marcel Cartier and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominately Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Over the course of more than a month, Cartier travelled across the terrain known as Rojava, experiencing the radical grassroots revolution that is sweeping the region. He spoke with commanders of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), visited women’s organisations, saw the cooperatives and communes in action that have transformed the concept of democracy, and found his understanding of revolution challenged and reinvigorated. Unique in its access, emotion and humanity, Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution, is a beautiful account of a contradictory and complex process that is fundamentally changing society in the midst of the 21st century’s most brutal civil war. Meaning ‘victory’, the Kurdish word ‘serkeftin’ captures the spirit of optimism in the catastrophe that has engulfed this beautiful country since 2011 and has simultaneously brought the possibility of freedom ever closer.

The Meaning of Trump

Author : Brian Francis Culkin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789040477
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Trump written by Brian Francis Culkin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Donald Trump was a shattering moment to the political sensibilities of America; immediately sending the country into a frenzy of commentary, critique, and a never-ending media coverage that has bordered on the absurd. But the question still remains: what does it all mean? The Meaning of Trump is an ideological critique that sees the election of Donald Trump as a completely natural progression to the general trajectory of digitized technologies, neoliberalism, and a new breed of financialized capitalism; destructive global forces that know no party affiliation or national boundary. Although Donald Trump is undoubtedly the symptom that has exploded to the surface after nearly four decades of failed policies and broken promises by both Republicans and Democrats alike, his election can also be seen as an existential fork in the road for both the United States and even humanity itself. What path is taken still remains to be seen.