"We have been reading the same old books for too long."

Eindelijk toegekomen aan 'Cruise Control' van McKenzie Wark. Een fijn stuk over Accelerationisme, in korte observaties geschreven, dat een groot aantal hedendaagse problemen haarfijn analyseert. Kleine aanzetten die verder moeten worden uitgedacht.

08. By their rhetoric you shall know them. The talk these days is of disruption, creation, destruction. The old language of the avant gardes and revolutionaries is now the province of Silicon valley publicists. So we need a careful analysis of that language – and we need a new avant garde. Its clear that this is a commodity economy busy cannibalizing its own means of subsistence. It has run out of ideas. The task of the neo-liberal state is to destroy the social so that it may be commodified, even though this will result in less efficient and effective forms of organization. So: let there be iPads in the charter schools! The result will be less effective, and more expensive, which is of course the goal.