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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hmm interesting, I need to look more into this metabolism stuff. I'm a bit confused on how this disproves the machine system as being "a moving power that moves itself" though or why this couldn't be compatible with his later theory of metabolism
I may have phrased it oddly: I don’t think it necessarily disproves the idea, but shows it to be incomplete. Wark goes into some detail on the shortcomings of the machines fragment, and how these are resolved by developments in ecology, science studies, etc.
