Xenosystems Fragments: (and a Gift from the Lemurs)

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Real life always comes first. We don’t take ourselves too seriously and when we play, we’re looking to have a good time. That said, we do like to put a little thought and team-work into overcoming the various challenges present in the game. If you’re interested in our list of activities and want to work with a bunch of relaxed (but awesome) people, please feel free to give us a shout. The shoes to be filled by both Kal Torvallen and TheBookfinder can not adequately be described in words. Xenosystems has boomed from a start up company to a multinational enterprise. The average growth since it opened up is over 600% per year, peaking to an incredible 2200%! With nearly 200 members joined since opening, it’s plain to see that they both did an outstanding job. The Council will reconvene at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 29 March, to conclude its general debate on racism and racial discrimination. It will then open its agenda item 10 on technical assistance and capacity building and hold an enhanced interactive dialogue on the oral updates of the High Commissioner and the team of international experts and on technical assistance and capacity building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. Translation is an amazing mechanism. It is a kind of possession . You have to let the thought you’re translating inhabit your body, and use it to express itself again, in a new form. One could talk of impersonation, but demons have no masks, no faces, only names. It’s uploading, in a primitive form. And it was a way to hollow myself out, to inoculate myself against the delirium… precisely by spreading it further. The 2013 manifesto had mentioned Land’s earlier version of accelerationism in passing, describing it as “acute” and “hypnotising”, but also “myopic” and “confused”. When Srnicek and I met – appropriately, he chose a futuristic public space: a cafe in the angular new extension to Tate Modern – I asked how he regarded Land and the CCRU’s work now. “Land’s stuff is a valid reading of Deleuze and Guattari,” he began politely. “But the inhumanism of it all ... And I’m not sure if returning to the CCRU’s texts is that interesting – all that word-play … Using the word ‘cyber’ seems very 90s.”

Neocameralism provided the conceptual engineering framework for a techonomic, accelerationist launchpad via fragmentation, sovereign corporation formalisation and market-based competition, enforced by the insatiable hunger of noumenal wolves stalking the Outside. Ray Brassier, “Nihil Unbound: Remarks on Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capitalism” in Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, ed. Peter Hallward. London: Continuum, 2004. Fun, no drama, real life first, maturity and sense of humour, exploration and exploitation of natural ressources Steven Shaviro, “Negative or oblique?”, The Pinocchio Theory, 2 May 2007: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=575

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The CCRU just vanished,” says Brassier. “And a lot of people – not including me – thought, ‘Good riddance.’” In this lecture we will consider Ray Brassier’s Promethean nihilism and how it inspired Alex Williams to put forward a view of capitalism-in-itself. This was the founding moment of the accelerationist blogosphere. It is also a moment that accelerationism has yet to escape… Mark Fisher, “‘Frankensteinian Surgeon of the Cities’”, k-punk, 23 October 2008: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010770.html Following our one-hour promo chat from the other day, I’m very excited to announce that The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, a collaborative course written by James ‘ @meta_nomad‘ Ellis and myself is now live at teachable.com. To Turner, the appeal of accelerationism is as much ancient as modern: “They are speaking in a millenarian idiom,” promising that a vague, universal change is close at hand. Noys warns that the accelerationists are trying to “claim the future”.

Like Land, Plant and Fisher had both read the French accelerationists and were increasingly hostile to the hold they felt traditional leftwing and liberal ideas had on British humanities departments, and on the world beyond. Unlike Land, Plant and Fisher were technophiles: she had an early Apple computer, he was an early mobile phone user. “Computers ... pursue accelerating, exponential paths, proliferating, miniaturising, stringing themselves together,” wrote Plant in Zeroes and Ones, a caffeinated 1997 book about the development of computing. Plant and Fisher were also committed fans of the 90s’ increasingly kinetic dance music and action films, which they saw as popular art forms that embodied the possibilities of the new digital era. Xenosystems advocated a cold anti-humanism of techno-commerce, Patchwork and Exit — via an embrace of cybernetics and the abstract dynamics of catallaxy — over the entropic monkey-trap of politics, Voice and Hegelian dialectics. It gets hard to recall. “Try again tomorrow.”… In truth, I couldn’t penetrate that library of ungodliness any further, and was far too avid to be able to read it all from the beginning. So I resorted to translation once again.Members are encouraged to voice their ideas and opinions so that their experience can be improved upon. Initiative is about making things happen together. In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU. The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011.

Two years later, in 2015, they expanded the manifesto into a slightly more concrete book, Inventing the Future. It argued for an economy based as far as possible on automation, with the jobs, working hours and wages lost replaced by a universal basic income. The book attracted more attention than a speculative leftwing work had for years, with interest and praise from intellectually curious leftists such as the Labour MP Jon Cruddas and the authors Paul Mason and Mike Davis. Hell-Baked ” was the first post I ever read there. And it is probably the best summary of it: short, pungent, unapologetic, malignant in its indifference. It flows like poetry, a dark pestilent poem for that which lies beyond — “where be dragons”, as it says. It contained themes that made it both absolutely current and just simply unthinkable to my ilk. A sister enters the room, missed her face. Something dripping in an unmistakable way: A-Death approaches. The symptoms are clear. One last step must be taken before entering the Crypt and finally confronting so long buried a thing, that has used these means for propagation.In this lecture there will be a indepth consideration of the transcendental Outside and the major role it plays in creating difference, as well as aligning the possibilty and potential of difference in relation to ‘Zero’. James Ellis (Meta-Nomad) – On Z/Acc (Zero-Accelerationism) – https://parallaxoptics.com/2020/03/16/on-z-acc/