Treading Carefully 0.1: Continuing from yesterday's thread on the definitions of the Acc strands, it was - roughly - agreed that the contention between the 2 currently deadlocked camps (U/Acc & R/Acc) is in actuality a question of free will -
My problem with that axiom is that in Thelemic terms (where it's from) there's a difference between what one *wants* and one's *will*. And more often than seems coincidental the endgame of U/Acc is that which its members *want* as opposed to just 'entering into the process'.
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Thelema as desire is separate to the wants and wills of ego, certainly, which is partly the point. Postcapitalist desire can be seen as thelemic — desire beyond quotidian wants. Desire ruptures the quotidian. This is as Deleuzian as it is Crowlian and that’s the U/Acc sweet spot.
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That which you *will* to do is your life's calling, life steering you towards a self-understanding. So, it is indeed the 'steering' aspect wherein lies the split, does life (or capital) steer, or does 'you'? U & R respectively.
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It is merely coincidental then that life's steering, or non-quotidian desire seems to steer people towards that which they materially wish for/want too. This is flippant though.
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Not coincidence at all: “libidinal engineering” gives the illusion of a calling whilst covering up manipulation — “communicative capitalism” is Fisher and Jodi Dean’s example: capitalism hijacking human will to communicate for its own ends, engineering desire for iPhones etc.
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This was taken to teh extreme yesterday wherein capital has controlled humans from day 1. In your cited sense u/Acc are giving into the manipulation and letting capital - without conditions - do its thing?
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I mean, that’s the Land/Negarestani abstract horror vision of capital, perhaps — Reza wrote of oil as that which has been lying dormant in the earth’s crust, ready to enslave us. The theory-fictional way of conceiving capital’s atemporal grasp on civilisation.
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In this way, capital is “blobjective” — Reza neologism — an outside that nonetheless absorbs all that in comes into contact with. Such is the engine of our manipulation by capital.
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