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Definition · paragraph 6

Accelerationism: Ray Brassier | moskvax https://moskvax.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/accelerationism-ray-brassier/[9/23/2017 12:12:03 AM] deterritorialize, there comes a point at which there is no agency left: you yourself have been dissolved back into the process.

Definition · paragraph 4

Accelerationism: Ray Brassier | moskvax https://moskvax.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/accelerationism-ray-brassier/[9/23/2017 12:12:03 AM] particularly acute, and this is where the Landian elimination of the Bergsonian component in Deleuze’s thought becomes awkward, and generates a difficulty for him.

Definition · paragraph 6

Accelerationism: Ray Brassier | moskvax https://moskvax.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/accelerationism-ray-brassier/[9/23/2017 12:12:03 AM] deterritorialize, there comes a point at which there is no agency left: you yourself have been dissolved back into the process. Once secondary production has been re- integrated or feeds back into primary production, ironically what you have is a bizarre mimesis of the serpent of absolute knowledge, except this time, it’s the serpent of absolute production.

Stakes · paragraph 8

By moskvax, on September 30, 2010 at 8:08 pm, under Uncategorized. Tags: accelerationism, capitalism, conference, deleuze, guattari, nick_land, philosophy, ray_brassier, transcript.

History · paragraph 9

As Ray Brassier details in his excellent critique of Land’s thought:What Land proposed to retain from Kant was the emphasis on the […] By Idealautonomi « frugt on May 4, 2012 at 11:33 pm […] rationality as something that allows you to intervene, to cut, in the continuity. – Ray Brassier @ Accelerationism Rate this: Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post.

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