Currently reading: McKenzie Wark "Accelerate in reverse" -- A fascinating look at Marx's fragment on machines and its limits as the founding text for accelerationism.http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/10/accelerate-in-reverse/ …
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Lastly, returning to the
#Accelerate collection, Wark identifies the possibility of social change in the technical rather than political sphere: "Capital calls machinery into existence in the form of fixed capital, but it could take another form [...] tech could be otherwise."pic.twitter.com/Gh7anReO4b
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Ultimately, our task is to "work out how different kinds of knowledge of different parts of the metabolism might cooperate, other than via the commodification of knowledge as intellectual property." Only with this knowledge may we design, at last, "a survivable natureculture."
