/lit/ - Literature

>>12041706
>I think Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka and Samsara are all Accelerationist films in their own way, although the later films tend to focus more on spirituality and non-Western cultures. They're all about the clash between Capital and traditional human cultures, as well as the different time structures between them. The scenes in nature and in the primitive Indian regions are slow and gradual, the scenes in New York, in industrial farms and commercial machinery are all hyper-accelerated, for example.

bloc-quoted for truth. even if they aren't /acc, they're certainly Cosmotech. one of the things i hope percolates out from this experiment is that - to paraphrase Brassier - acceleration is a point of speculative departure, and not an ideology of itself. it does not mean Fuck Yeah Collapse. it is very much more like a tiny pocket dimension, best represented by the End of Time in Chrono Trigger, from which any number of doors outwards can be opened, whether onto the Elemental Plane of Slime, the Elemental Plane of Rl'Yeh, or a small room in which Reza Negarestani is there by himself and playing Super Mario Kart or w/ev game he is into these days. acceleration *makes philosophy great again* and then immediately fails to be able to explain why that is, or why that should be a meaningful or realistic goal at all.

and because we like to score easy points for things by resorting to achingly beautiful music cribbed from crossover vidya, we will seed the thread with rawest sentimentality to that end.

FF9: Terra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1kNuPj2vO8

earth's cool.