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Alex Williams Post-Land The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics
"Alex Williams Post-Land The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics" routes capital through finance, infrastructure, or modernity-writing to show how abstract systems rewrite historical time.
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Core idea
These texts describe modernity as a field governed by capitalized abstraction, infrastructural redesign, and the pressures of finance. Historical time becomes inseparable from technical and monetary process.
They work by connecting money, architecture, infrastructure, and world-order narratives to a broader picture of runaway modernization. Finance is treated as a driver of temporal and social reformatting.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's most concrete routes into abstraction. Capital becomes visible here through circuits of money, urban form, and historical reorganization.
How to read this text
Read for the material carriers of abstraction first: finance, architecture, protocol, or infrastructure. Those details keep the page from becoming a loose metaphor of speed.
Watch how the text narrates historical time under pressure from capitalized systems. That is where the section's larger stakes come into view.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 131
▼ October (3) Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist ... When nothing ever happens. Xenoeconomics and Capital Unbound.
History · paragraph 129
But even if such a regrounding were to be possible (upon a speculative realist xenoeconomics, as I think will need to be the case) the aim of the exercise, to re-introduce this into the social field in order to enable a radically new form ► 2010 (5) ► 2009 (22) ▼ 2008 (10)
History · paragraph 152
splintering bone ashes: Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics. https://web.archive.org/web/20100805024039/http:/splinteringboneashes.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-land-paradoxes-of-speculative.html[12/16/2017 7:49:36 PM] Newer Post Older Post Post a Comment Home
History · paragraph 81
splintering bone ashes: Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics. https://web.archive.org/web/20100805024039/http:/splinteringboneashes.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-land-paradoxes-of-speculative.html[12/16/2017 7:49:36 PM] There is a significant question which remains unanswered, one which was touched upon by Schoolboyerrors in the comments box of the previous post: “To what end accelerationism?
History · paragraph 123
splintering bone ashes: Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics. https://web.archive.org/web/20100805024039/http:/splinteringboneashes.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-land-paradoxes-of-speculative.html[12/16/2017 7:49:36 PM] something close to the dissolution of subjectivity (and the initiation of what might resemble a Guyotadian political economy).
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.