{"id":7471,"date":"2020-11-11T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7471"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:17:49","slug":"accelerate-e-book","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/product\/accelerate-e-book\/","title":{"rendered":"#Accelerate E-Book"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ePub version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/book\/accelerate\/\">#Accelerate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"small-quote\"><p>An engaging, eccentric anthology\u2026it\u2019s refreshing to encounter a \u2018left\u2019 project for the future that wants to reclaim the idea of technology, industry and planet-scale thinking.<br \/>\n\u2014JJ Charlesworth, <em>ArtReview<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or d\u00e9tourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.<\/p>\n<p><em>#Accelerate<\/em> presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.<\/p>\n<p>On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own &#8216;Prometheanism&#8217;, and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, <em>#Accelerate<\/em> activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of &#8216;reasonable&#8217; contemporary political alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7671,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1603],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7471","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ebooks","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}