Accelerationism, The Dark Enlightenment & The Strange Life of Nick Land 

I mean if I were a Satanist I'd pick him to rep me over LaVey, but it would admittedly be a bit dishonest.

In the vulgar sense Crowley was a Satanist, He admitted as such multiple times and his correspondence with Symonds reasserts such feat. Symonds also referenced how Crowley honoured a whole council of hebrew/christian demons. My view is that Crowley was a Satanist, and yet more than a Satanist. Crowley could be called a Sinister Pyrrhoist. The rituals to Apep reassert this position, the same regarding the Set-Hoori conflation. Achad in his turn to Christianity also reasserts this as fact. Motta does the same, and regardless the grades and successory disputes his research and commentary is cirurgically on point, and this fact alone is the motivator of most thelemite hate against him today, he talked too much and he was as public as Crowley was. Crowley references to Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit, specially on the Farewell (a passkey) in the OTO IX° are not only self referential (him as beast ie. vesper ie. the star in the west) but also the holy ghost as satan. This interchangeability is openly introduced in The Wake World in the proper arcana. The same applies to the communications in which Sorat is vehicle. Crowley embracing of "The World" in the most offensive biblical sense is also testimony enough. To Crowley the Father Christ references is not the Demiurge. In fact Crowley equates the Demiurge with Satan and with a whole different God Father from the Christians. Authentic Sinister Gnosticism.

@@LNVACVAC And that's fair. I think I tend towards a perspective that acknowledges the Gnostic conceits a bit more readily, but I will concede that my biases are my own.

@@dustind4694 RU-vid is deleting my answers. Crowley basically promoted Pneumatikoi and Phibionite practices as Gnostic Acceleration, but in place of bringing the second coming and stealing light from the Arkons, to solidify his kingdom as beast and coming/awakening of other instrumental satanic avatars.

He's not either/or

I love free markets but hate authorianism. Why can't just one us state remain free?

@@beareble-lion4446 Your position makes no sense. If markets are unregulated, then giant megacorps are naturally gonna arise and a huge amount of power over everyone else.

@@robinvik1 That's already a thing

@@cthonicobservations1743 Exactly.

@@robinvik1 Unless the sole function of the government is to enforce individual liberties.

"Every time Sisyphus says ___ the video doubles in speed."

I advise watching every video In two times speed cuts out the natural thinking pauses in speech

I think it's more of a joke bcs in the video sisyphus talks about acceleration and speeding up things

Start in .25 and slowly move up to 4x

April fool's video opportunity

Can't wait for that national debt to fucking implode

Let's Not You wouldn't be alive by then

@@LordFakmorIII By implode I mean the bad kind

@@sibanbgd100 lmao

What an obsession with America. So bad, but also so eager to open its borders to others. Somehow America is the worst and the best for progressives.

Sums it up.

Speederun

this but unironically you ever notice in Civ V how democracy basically never wins, except maybe in very rare, improbably lucky circumstances? It's always fascism or communism that take over the world. and usually through brutal total war, often nuclear war. especially on higher difficulty levels. you notice how fragile democracy seems to be in our actual world? sometimes, you start to wonder if maybe the AI is right...

@@ivandiaz5791 hey. Hey just wanted to explain to you the point of the joke. Civ is a game where humanity is a competitive game of nations. Its literally gamifying human history. The joke is that wouldn’t it be crazy if people thought that being a human and interacting with other humans on a universal scale was made into some arbitrary game?

@@BenvolioZF thing is.. that kind of is a lot of people’s world views.. just an arbitrary game of competing ideologies

Did you consciously change "Chiba City" to "Night City?" Clever reference either way.

@@dethkon Night City is the name of a small area in Chiba (in neuromancer.) That commenter didn’t change anything. Night City from the recent cyberpunk game is totally unrelated

@@k.s.9400 Thanks for the correction. Is Night City that place where Molly sort of follows/stalks Case through the club/arena and flatline's an assassin? Or is it the part of Chiba where like, Case's coffin at "Cheap Hotel" is? Kinda close to where his junkie, prostitute ex-girlfriend meets him to try and scam some money off him in the beginning? I haven't read Neuromancer in some time...

@@dethkon "Behind the port lay the city, factory domes dominated by the vast cubes of corporate arcologies. Port and city were divided by a narrow borderland of older streets, an area with no official name. Night City, with Ninsei its heart. By day, the bars down Ninsei were shuttered and featureless, the neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting, under the poisoned silver sky"

@@dethkon The vanilla Cyberpunk genre always have a "night city" as a setting: always raining, neon lights, being a seedy unforgiving hellhole where dying is a preferable alternative to living...

I agree. A talented person addicted to speed is not significantly more impressive in his output than a guy with a swastika tattooed on his forehead living in an unregistered car parked in the desert.

Well, Lands worldview was ahead of its time and will be recognized as the better alternative to the democratic sham most people in the west still believe in today, so I guess the amphetamines didn't hurt.

That is such bullshit. I bet you would gladly take cancer medication even if it was invented by a guy on speed​@@claesvanoldenphatt9972

There is literally no proof abt it lol

lol

Its so over

my thoughts exactly

worse, reddit audience found it

Very glad to see this, thanks for making my day. Im going to make the most of it!!!

OMG I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT NICK LAND Not really, I just wanted to be part of the fun

Owo?

Hyperstitioned the video into reality

Because, it is

It’s pretty much one of the best substances a philosopher can use.

@@johnnyjacuzzi7498 in a post-individual view in which philosophy as a whole becomes comparable to a brain and each philosopher becomes a train of thought, then for each philosopher to take amphetamine and accelerate their own thinking faster than their natural (as in, unpredictable and affected by all the variables of life) experience and learning can account for... yes. the alternative to this is that each philosopher has a fair balanced view of life and thinks as he pleases.... yeah, amphetamines sound like a good idea. do got the crash tho...

Great story and well-written, I can visualise it. Thank you for sharing.

Nice to see someone quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer, didn't expect it.

gayest thing ive read all year

i don't see how this is any different than what n@zis or other fascist-futurists want?

I think we're collectively thinking of the same things. Collective consciousness stuff. The human giant is processing lots of things right now.

Read cyclonopedia!! But also read anti-oedipus and even a thousand plateaus first. Deleuze and Guattari play an incredibly important role securely tying critical theory to postmodernism. And how that sentence would upset some idiots in Congress and the PTA..

Carl Jung Aion

@@vibratoryuniverse308 yes!

@@vibratoryuniverse308 YESSSSS

I have to agree with you: inevitability doesn't make much sense when you consider the power that individuals can have over society and therefore the course of history. Its hard to predict complex systems, and few systems are more complex than society.

If time is infinite, then eventually humans will be left to nothing, be nothing. Our lives will mean nothing, so why does it matter? I’m not suicidal but I don’t want to die. But I do look at the recent report on climate change at the UN and think that their is not reason to be alive. I don’t think that it’s impossible to have humans live forever but right now, it seems kinda hard to picture us surviving past this century. That’s where the nihilism comes from. It’s not inevitable but it seems damn close.

@@spicy1375 If you think about the infinity of time and of the bearing of our actions in that spectrum, then yes, our actions have little consequences in that regard. However, we are all only one individual. What matters to us, the things we think fondly of, the things we hate, all of this matters from a subjective point of view. Let's say you were working in a company that helps the elderly. What do you accomplish ? Are you giving motivation for the younger generations to not worry about their future ? Are you trying to please people, and making them remember you as a good person ? These exemples are variable, you can't rely on them for meaning. Taking care of the elderly won't erase dread, trying to please people won't necessarily work at all. So what do you accomplish except helping people who are going to die anyway ? Here's the answer : if you hadn't helped them, they wouldn't have gotten help. If you weren't with them, they would be lonely. You might think that if you weren't there, someone else would be, but no, for nothing is granted. You accomplish what you accomplish, the help you give, is help you gave and that wouldn't have been otherwise. What happens after, the meaning behind the action, how people see it... Over time, it's meaningless. But the action itself has been done, and wouldn't have been otherwise. So instead of pursuing, and failing, at finding external meanings, excuses behind your actions, to find a "reason to live", let your actions become the meaning. Not meaningful in the future. Not to the universe. Not to humanity. But to you.

unrelated but dope PFP my guy

@@spicy1375 Are things valuable only if they last forever? Why not embrace the good things in life now, even if they fall prey to entropy one day?

it repeats

human beings make the SAME MISTAKES as our ancestors.......sometimes......but like hell do we "only progress" from them.

This has to be the shittiest poem in the galaxy's history, if an intelligent extraterrestrial picked up a book of human history they'd think this is some kind of a prank.

Almost like a sick joke.

I'd suggest 'A Quick and dirt Introduction to Accelerationism' by Land or his interview with Justin Murphy called 'Capital, intelligence and Ai'

@@audrey2433 Thank you!

You should def check out Mark Fisher, Land likes to affiliated himself with neo-nazis

it's a dooms day cult pretty much a religion that hopes that all will be better after burning everything down...

Very well put!

In most contexts I've heard it used it refers to a hyperextension and perhaps misunderstanding of a specific piece of Marxists theory. Basically stating that capitalism will inevitably head towards its own demise and so accelerating capitalism results in a further heightening and enhancement of the contradictions within capitalism. In a super oversimplified way of explaining thinking that the insane amount of inequality that would result would give the proletariat no other recourse than to violently overthrow their oppressors. Or in other words Lenin's statement that in the end the capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them. But taken to an extreme. Perhaps too literally. Accelerationism is the idea that you need to accelerate more to reach the end of capitalism, either via the end of humanity or the dawn of socialism/communism.

@@plastictouch6796 this is what some accelerationists believe, nick land is far more unhinged iirc

Glad I saw this

It may be because it's not really giving up, it's like walking away from a roulette table after not spending a dime. Ruckus grew too incessant and drinks started spilling, time to jacket up and leave this den of debauchery.

It is only giving up if your most fundamental identity is human. If you have something within you that is deeper than humanity, the process that brought us about and will continue move past us, accelerating past what we are is the carrying out of a mission, not giving up. How sad it would be if this was failed, and humanity was the high-point of life before it fizzled out into the cold.

@@zack49 But even this thought is defined based on a fundamentally human viewpoint, would a post-human creature even have this apreciation?

@@zack49 so tell me please - what is it then thats deeper than human in humanity itself? It's like saying a circle should focus on being square, it doesn't make sense. To me it feels like you are humanizing this so called process, a process which will continue to exist anyways even if we continue to exist or not. This process isn't human-oriented, you are humanizing it, which is a grave error. Life (which I think is the process which you refer to is) will continue with or without us. As humanity it is impossible to focus on anything other than humanity itself, we shouldn't try to move 'past' anything.

@@Vitorruy1 Our viewpoint is the human viewpoint, we can only do what seems best to us. People don't stop having kids because of the fact that some of them will turn out suicidal. In fact, it probably never crosses most people's minds during sex. People are hardwired to create new life just as the larger system of evolution is, and somthing past human will come inevitably simply as a result of our collective actions.

I'm reading Sadie Plant's _Zero's and One's_ right now.

@@dethkon as you should! it's such an incredibly rich text. it also has one of the best openings of almost any book

As a paganarchist who considers Al Crowley to be essentially to me what Leo Tolstoy is to Christian anarchists I die a bit inside every time someone describes Frater Perdurabo as a Satanist.

@@tjenadonn6158 i empathize completely. thelemite-lemurian solidarity in having this particular problem

@@lilliansimons5802 And it's not even as if Satanists are bad people. I dated a Theistic Satanist for a while and he was an absolute gentleman in every capacity. It's just that describing Crowley and Thelema as Satanic is just as far off the mark as describing the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism as Christian. If you're going to get into fringe philosophers (speaking of which I'd like to see him try to make heads or tails of Robert Anton Wilson and the rest of the Discordians) at least get their philosophy right.

Guattari wrote some really good material on responding to this crisis, although he died before accelerationism existed. He argues that we should use all of the knowledge we accumulated to fight against these pressures. He basically believed that this society could produce machines that could change this, but a serious problem in the way is how capitalism influences "subjectivity production" or the creation of a subject and how they interface themselves with the world. In other words, we think too capitalist! He firmly believed that we had to change collectively our social relationship with things like science, medicine and technology to actually change the world, and he stressed how it wasn't just a human problem but an ecological problem. This is why accelerationism is so frustrating because it's practically polar opposite of what Guattari believed. Accelerationism is fundamentally very fatalistic imho. Try reading Guattari's later books... 3 ecologies and chaosmosis are both relatively short and explains his feelings on this.

@@PunishedFelix agreed. Accelerationism is the natural manifestation of a capitalist progression.

@@alfinkemal9133 you're 100% right!!

Spitin facts

Capitalism run amok is NOT anarchy - it is antithetical to anarchy, and generally fascistic. Anarchy means "without rulers"

same here, this is very thought-provoking!

מה קורה אחי

@@talhanin8190 נהדר מה איתך?

@@nate.5642 thanks

@@user-tq3lp5in5o שלומי טוב מאוד אביב, שמח לראות צופים ישראלים צדיקים כמוך

There are no hero philosophers

@@Bunk801 your name and avatar makes it really hard to take anything you say seriously, morally speaking of course.

It's not about ignoring suffering, it's about surpassing and overcoming human suffering by immersing the human subject into capitalism under the tradition of European Nihilism and coming out the other side as a Lovecraftian cyborg.

Have you checked out the book cyclonopedia? It holds a few of Nick land's (or the ccru's) most interesting ideas, plus a bit of a different self-subsuming deleuzian perspective, that material forces become psychologically harmful autonomous elements. So my favorite part of their ideas is that the earth has a mind of its own and through psychological manipulation is causing people to enter into a symbiotic relationship of dependence, one which is actually parasitic because there was no benefit to be had which was not compelled

It's also more about recognizing the immutability of confusion, fear and anger at the unknown-- I have always shied away from Nick Land because of the weird unscientific linguistics shit he was into. That stuffs like brain poison. Suffering is perceptual and has to be conveyed. Maybe he just doesn't see how pervasive suffering is.

More so how crippling

@@PulsatingShadow well, no, I disagree. Accelerationism is like a religion imo, even Nick Land states 'the definition itself is rapidly changing'.

is that from the not really video

@@asukayin6487 Marx in general had some “accelerationist” views. His analysis of how capitalism is driven through crisis and has the tendency to fluctuate is somethin accelerationist thinkers borrow.

In my opinion, the modern movement toward free trade has clearly done the opposite of exacerbating class antagonism. The qualities which Marx identifies as making the proletariat an ideal revolutionary class no longer applies to the workforces of modern post-industrial societies. The proletariat wasn't just equal to all working people, but specifically industrial workers who had a close relationship with large, fixed pieces of capital, such as factories and mines. Their proxitimity to the most valuable means of production would allow them to quickly seize control of the economy and install the dictatorship of the proletariat. However, most first world countries don't employ many industrial laborers but instead are primarily service economies. First world countries exported most industrial labor overseas in the latter 20th century and now its hard to find many finished products that are not largely produced overseas. In effect the first world has already exported the "revolutionary class" that Marx was waiting to arrive, so accelerating things won't change anything in America or Europe. And the countries which industry was exported to already encourage the kind of brutally unreglated capitalism accelerationist seem to prefer, so there's not much else to do if you're one of them. China is an example of a country which ran through the entire industrial revolution in a few decades and now has begun to catch up the the first world, and they're repeating the same process, exporting industrial labor overseas.

@@MrJethroha the simple counterpoint is that the proletariat is now all working people. Service economies still need labour to function, even with automation, and if anything are more susceptible to fissures because of its tenuous interlinked nature. Tube strikes in London were reported to cost £10 million per day, nationwide rail strikes £600 million per day, cost being attributed to absences mostly. It’s not free trade that has quieted class antagonism, it’s atomisation, paper tiger trade unions, aggressive governments, etc etc. By the way, not telling you how to suck eggs, but even the Operaismos disregarded Marx’s specific definition of the proletariat and that was way back in the 70s. It’s long been understood that the proletariat ain’t swinging an axe or hammering steel no more.

LIBERTARIAN STALINISM GANG

Sense of humor is an understatement, it's rare to find so much sarcasm in a philosophy text after Kant, and I think some parts are straight out parody of Hegelian logic and book structure. I'm not sure if I want an overview of the book on youtube, I think that can only go wrong.

he already has, it’s called ‘THE MOST MISERABLE PHILOSOPHER OF ALL TIME’

He already has...

stirner was invented by Engels to fuck with Marx

@@anditcomesbacktoyou je, that's a good one

Exactly this

That's because his cultural criticism is based on an economically deterministic view of the world mixed up with some postmodern nihilistic hermeticism. Probably one of the reasons why he hasn't embraced Alain De Benoist thought who is a sociologist that has played a key role in the development of the modern alt right.

It's more a narrative or cultural lens than a theory. A way of introducing the problems of our age to thinkers in an engaging way. The Left calls this Theory.

The algorithm knows all

Consumerism and accelerationism is nihilism. It is a slow-motion suicide.

"creatively destructive marxist" - i fear no oversimplification

Capitalism is already the death drive in motion, on a global scale.

I think this train of thought you described is everywhere all around

To me it just seems like copeium. "Yes, everything is getting worse and I have no idea how to reverse the trend. But that's good actually!"

Pitching yourself off a cliff is literally how you transcend suffering.

@@KindredPlagiarist I agree! Pure flight into the unknown. Better know you're gonna die though, or the suffering may only double....

@Sebastian Montoya running from death will not guarantee life

@Moerlboro Cop It seems to come more often when you don't.

@@ebioweifekumo3335 It may prolong it, at the very least

Good luck with that I he already misunderstand crowley as satanist

I don’t understand this guy 🤣. Like where does he see himself in that system? And once he gets there what does that mean to him? I’m assuming his goal isn’t any kind of enjoyment, unless he’s part of sovereignty, but what about everyone else? Like it makes no sense, and anyone who actually sees merit in the ideals is most likely a bullied edgy 14 year old who hasn’t experienced enough of life.

Everyone hates their body, it completely subjugates the will and intellect. It's mortality symbolized

Prolly addicted to meth and intellectualized it. But you're on to something. Post-modernity and structuralist's embarrassingly phrased "daring deconstruction" of the subject rejected any notion of human nature. Which - I find the fact that Foucault not being able to really respond to Chomskys position that our ability to know language is a universal human behavior in that debate to be the most simple rejection of that notion. But it trying to destroy the subject in subject/object is fundamentally ridiculous. Simply by the premise that if there was no separation from subject to object - post-modernity/structuralism could not exist. Unless the knowing philosopher telling me is somehow magically inclined. Similarly - its strange for me to believe that one could conceive of different societies built from any outside coming in instead of within the system itself. Humanism is unavoidable unless you want to be a religious nutcase or Nick Land.

hunger is critical to opening up new metaphy whatever you said

@@Se7enth351 The "will and intellect" does not exist outside the body. They are purely organic in their base and essence. Also "the soul" is another platonic make-believe.

@@anon2034 If you reduce everything to atoms nothing exists :) very insightful comment

There is no dichotomy between the fictional and the real

try to disagree with the concept accelerationism is like disagree historical materialism, you can dislike or not the groups that used that real social concept, but you can't deny their existence or prevent it by just disliking and not doing nothing. Thats just like trying to stop a car crush you by just ignoring it insteads of just run.

Hahaha yeah this video is actualy awfull and has simply a deep missunderstanding of the philosophy itself.

Exactly. I wonder how my opinion on these things would change if I was no longer subject to those influences. I can’t imagine subscribing to a philosophy that doesn’t concern itself with the betterment of the lives of those who are oppressed by the current system and rather neglects them as nuisance.

@@misterdemocracy3335 i guess one benefit is to force people to strive to make a living for themselves and understand the fragility of life. but this is not the way

@@misterdemocracy3335 I don't concern myself with EVERY "Oppressed Population". That's not to say I don't think it's important to KNOW everyone.....I just....don't care about "some" of them 😂

Don't worry, the authoritarians will tell you, you just have to listen and believe, this time they have it, they're not just saying it, this is the real deal.

@@Illlium honestly I think authoritarianism is fine as long as it is traditionalist and Christian in nature. I used to be a libertarian hardcore, but unless everyone was a Christian it would never work.

you don't speed up capitalism because acceleration is the normal behaviour [Teleoplexy, Nick Land §01]

The only Acc's that matter is U, Z and R. As Z is seeing the process of markets as negative feedback while r as positive. Land now is more of an u/acc rather than a r/acc it seems to me. They also should've done a reading of xenosystems lmao, as one of the most important aspects is to oppose universalism.

Crowley was an occult thinker who followed hermetic philosophy and teachings of the golden dawn, he betrayed the golden dawn only to start his own society, the A∴A∴ and is still followed today by many chaos mages and other post modern magicians, not exclusively satanists. sis55’s assessment of nick land isn’t necessary incorrect but the wide brush he paints in the effort to stick closely to Christian morality (but not Christian “teachings” or Christian ideals,) and materialism shows that in trying to show the fallacy of land’s meth fueled neurotica he is willing to trample over metaphysics and ontology in his attempt to do so. That is his choice to make, but I found it very midwitty to immediately gloss over an aspect of land based off of what your church going mom says about Crowley. Crowley had many satanic symbols in his system and at his core was a very dysfunctional person, but the satanic symbols in his system exist for their cabalistic significance, (something land talks ingeniously of including in cryptocurrency) and when calling himself “the beast” or “the beast 666” was only part of his tragic character and his personal complexes. to separate the man from his teachings is very important not only for nick land (which, if you’re not already discarding your perspective temporarily when you’re reading opposing opinions then what are you doing?) but for Crowley as well. I endorse people to instead of listening to someone gloss over an oddball like Crowley, to go balls to the wall if interested and simply see what he was about. don’t just stick to modernist-Christian and Aristotelian models of the world, make your own discoveries and conclusions. you cannot fathom how large your head really is.

Agreed. Theosophy is not Satanism.

@@dwaynesbadchemicals That's exactly what a Satanist *would* say 😂

He wasn't. Just like Trump was NEVER anti-establishment.

I find comments like yours so strangely condescending. Did someone "lost you" because they made a simple mistake? Have you ever tried to build a video like this?

He failed to mention how Land sees the CEO monarch as being elected by and serving a board of shareholders who own the resources of the area the CEO controls. Sounds more terrifying if you just call it totalitarianism as Sisyphus did when all it's really for is formalizing existing power and stripping out unnecessary beurocracy.

Huh? Never read Aristotles politics I guess. Platos Republic too... any Medieval or Christian philosophy of politics really

it's possible to have a good monarch

@@thelasttruegamer2221 but more possible to have a tyrannical one

@@kosh9019 some men would rather live under a more capable state, albeit more overtly tyrannical. Democracies are known to be ineffective and are not without their own tyranny

The appearance of that terrible Vox article is a red flag

Was this part even important to the main topic?

Is it really all that important? The guy was into some wacky occult stuff, who cares about the specifics?

@@Illlium depending on an individual's viewpoint, any branch of philosophy could be considered 'wacky' and therefore indistinguishable from other branches that they considered similar. I.e from a highly religious viewpoint then all materialist philophies could be potentially lumped together and you could conclude that both Dawkins and Stalin were/are more or less espousing the same ideas as you consider the defining details irrelevant. When it comes to studying philosophy the defining details between one set of ideas and another are extremely important and this applies just as equally to esoteric and occult philosophy. The differences between Satanism and Western Hermeticism and Thelema are as significant as the differences between Druidism and Catholicism and Islam. Describing Crowley as a Satanist is like describing Osama Bin Laden as a militant Druid, just completely innacurate.

@@joesmithson1026 as someone that rejects supernatural claims to me it's a distinction without a difference. As far as we know Crowley wasn't a violent or malicious person, and neither are the vast majority of Satanists. Which name he flung on his banner is as important to me as which sports clubs he supported.

nah, didn't even give a correct definition of accelerationism. hermetix does it justice

@@patf9770 I agree, hermetix is definitely better. But entropy and all he's tryna appeal to more people, so much of the signal is lost. But he did a better job than his Ted K thing here, maybe cause he takes him more seriously. I'm reminded due to the popularity of this video of Nick lands quote "as soon as the idea of accelerationism arrives on the market it will be too late". He made a couple big errors though, especially in his separation of capitalism and technology at the beggining, which it is essential within his framework to unify those concepts. Also his take on neoreaction is totally wrong, I don't know how he came up with that definition, maybe from some moldbug fans. Who knows though, maybe this is a cyberguerilla from the future, who's making this video seem like family friendly content, while obscuring his glistening cybernetics

Then it must be the only one you saw to date

@@sergio4660 all the other ones have me the feeling that I need to read Hegel and Deleuze (at least) in order to get what's going on. Not Actually has a couple great ones too

@@adammilne1341 not actually's is infinitely better than this one

_I em Speed_

you don't speed up capitalism because acceleration is the normal behaviour [Teleoplexy, Nick Land §01]

Ah, should have watched through to the end. I would have liked to se more on this tension between deregulation and figures like Trump, and the proposition that China is the quintessential example of an accelerationist society.