Ken’s contribution to the “Accelerationism” debate has been posted up at Public Seminar Blog. It’s pretty clear and concise and consists of 25 theses. Below are two choice theses (for the sake of brevity): 17. Biopower is not the state’s primary object. Yes, states are arming themselves against their own populations; states are conducting surveillance […]

Image: Zombie selfie on the set of The Walking Dead. Steve Shaviro’s “Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption” in e-flux http://www.e-flux.com/journal/accelerationist-aesthetics-necessary-inefficiency-in-times-of-real-subsumption/

“Totality for Kids” by Mckenzie Wark and Erik Loyer From Steve Anderson’s introduction to the project: Editor’s Introduction Legends have their uses, as distillations of the wisdom of events, as ways of passing on a knowledge of situations. History as a discipline dissolves the event back into the archive, turning history (event) into history (text), […]

I’ll try to find some time to post about Douglas Lain’s debut novel, Billy Moon. http://www.amazon.com/Billy-Moon-Douglas-Lain/dp/0765321726 From Amazon.com In Douglas Lain’s debut novel set during the turbulent year of 1968, Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his father’s fictional creation, struggles to emerge from a manufactured life, in a story of hope and transcendence. Billy Moon was […]