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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

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—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
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creative destruction

in fact, the very idea of "creative destruction" comes entirely from Marx. Schumpeter is the only significant right-wing, procapitalist economist who actually took the trouble to read Marx carefully and seriously

—p.15 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro
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autarkic

Amin's autarkic policies were in fact adopted by the Khmer Rouge

—p.14 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro
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neoliberalism has robbed us of the future

What lurks behind this analysis is the frustrating sense of an impasse. Among its other accomplishments, neoliberal capitalism has also robbed us of the future. For it turns everything into an eternal present. The highest values of our society--as preached in the business schools--are novelty, inno…

—p.10 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro