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Edmund Berger - Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) Deterritorial Investigations
"Edmund Berger - Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) Deterritorial Investigations" treats jungle, techno, garage, or club culture as a laboratory for thinking futurity, rhythm, and public theory.
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Core idea
The central claim is that music scenes are not just illustrations of theory but engines of temporal and cultural experimentation. Jungle, techno, garage, and breakcore become methods for thinking futurity from below.
These texts work by translating rhythm, production, and scene memory into conceptual vocabulary. Club cultures become sites where time, collectivity, and technological mediation are actively reworked.
That matters because the archive's sonic line depends on culture moving through dance floors, pirate radio, and interviews as much as through philosophy. Public theory here is inseparable from musical circulation.
How to read this text
Read for how the page connects rhythm or scene history to larger claims about time, futurity, or collectivity.
Notice where criticism turns into method. The strongest pages in this cluster use music discourse as a way of building concepts, not merely decorating them.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 4
CCRU received ample boosts from sweaty dance floors moved by the sample-heavy bass and backbeats of jungle, dropping chopped-up and scrambled variants of previous musical cultures into the blossoming rave scene of the UK.
Definition · paragraph 5
Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) | Deterritorial Investigations https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/acceleration-now-or-how-we-can-stop-fearing-and-learn-to-love-chaos/[12/16/2017 8:48:44 PM] The world of today, Shanghai And thus Land and the CCRU, now minus Plant, produced a bizarre and complex theoretical position called “accelerationism.” Academia was stagnant, reflecting a wider stagnation in the government and the social.
Stakes · paragraph 19
Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) | Deterritorial Investigations https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/acceleration-now-or-how-we-can-stop-fearing-and-learn-to-love-chaos/[12/16/2017 8:48:44 PM] cybernetic-culture.html 3Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (ed.) Artaud Anthology City Lights, 1965, pg. 29 4Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Penguin, 1977, pgs.
Stakes · paragraph 10
Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) | Deterritorial Investigations https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/acceleration-now-or-how-we-can-stop-fearing-and-learn-to-love-chaos/[12/16/2017 8:48:44 PM] arbiter of capitalism’s global flows, encompassing the monetary, the material, and human elements, it acts as a lopsided entity, a mass centralization that works not with the market, but against it.
History · paragraph 20
158 23Felix Guattari Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm Indiana University Press, 1995 pg. 83 24Simon Reynolds Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture Routledge, 1999 pg. 248 25Ibid., pg.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.