No Speed Limit · Three Essays on Accelerationism (Forerunners · Ideas First)
- Authors
- Shaviro, Steven
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Tags
- philosophy , writing
- ISBN
- 9780816697670
- Date
- 2015-01-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.09 MB
- Lang
- en
Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, but it works as a powerful artistic program.
Other authors have debated the pros and cons of accelerationist politics; *No Speed Limit* makes the case for an accelerationist aesthetics. Our present moment is illuminated, both for good and for ill, in the cracked mirror of science-fictional futurity.