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No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism
Contributor(s): Shaviro, Steven (Author)
ISBN: 0816697671     ISBN-13: 9780816697670
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Criticism
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306.342
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 6.8" (0.20 lbs) 60 pages
 
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Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, but it works as a powerful artistic program.

Other authors have debated the pros and cons of accelerationist politics; No Speed Limit makes the case for an accelerationist aesthetics. Our present moment is illuminated, both for good and for ill, in the cracked mirror of science-fictional futurity.

Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.