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aesthetic accelerationism

Aesthetic accelerationism, unlike the politico-economic kind, does not claim any efficiency for its own operations. It revels in depicting situations where the worst depredations of capitalism have come to pass, and where people are not only unable to change things but are even unable to imagine tr…

—p.39 No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism Acceleration Aesthetics (25) by Steven Shaviro
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extirpate

this ubiquitous aestheticization is also a radical extirpation of the aesthetic

quite poetic

—p.30 Acceleration Aesthetics (25) by Steven Shaviro
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qualia

argue that aesthetic experience--or what they more often call inner sensation, or the experience of "qualia", or "consciousness" tout court--doesn't really exist

on analytic philosophy

—p.27 Acceleration Aesthetics (25) by Steven Shaviro
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Hayek's idealization of the market

But Hayek's market utopia does not take Keynesian uncertainty into account. Since we cannot quantify the future in probabilistic terms, it cannot be captured in terms of the "information" provided by the price system. Despite its supposedly self-correcting mechanisms, the "market" is as subject to …

—p.19 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro