Formal construction might arise from the immanence of the parts, rather than a transcendental whole. This presents an aesthetic or architecture that has much more in common with bioconstructions, such as the famed radiolarians of Ernst Haeckel, rather than a rigid top-down industrial engineering. This approach privilegies an organic openness and difference derived from the analogic application of elements. (1: Detlef Mertins, Modernity Unbound)
If it is now a machinic capitalism whose artificial cognition rules our world — its amphetaminic diachronism melting all to air and lava-like, re-sedimenting the crust — we must ask what is this unconscious from which everything is pulled, molten, to the surface? The phenomenal being of this alien mind, whose transcendental conditions must be vastly different than ours produces more information hours than attention can ever repay.
Spiders roam gossamer filaments, burning through RSS feeds, social networking platforms, and blogs, routing back through high-speed fiber-optic cables, and depositing base data to be transmuted in the server-banks to pure gold. Last week, NPR reported that 75% of market volatility was the product of High Frequency Trading (HFT). [1] HFT runs on hyper-engineered algorithms [...]
Accelerationism is the notion that rather than halting the onslaught of capital, it best to exacerbate its processes to bring forth its inner contradictions, and thereby hasten its destruction. As a radical act, the genesis of this idea stretches back to Marx and continues through Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy, Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, and Nick Land’s cybertechnics.
© 2012 Joshua Johnson
