PLEASE NOTE: to my horror, I started referring to the CCRU as the CCMU in this piece. I’m sorry about that.
My take on vaporwave’s relationship with the philosophy of accelerationism, arguing against the prevailing critical discourse today. A brief look at accelerationism’s roots in Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, and Warwick University’s CCRU is also included.
References:
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Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (2004) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: continuum
Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1988) A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press
Jameson, F. (1991) Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press
Jameson, J. (2009) Valences of the Dialectic. New York: Verso
Koc, A. (2017) Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the
Truth?: Cognitive Mapping of Late Capitalist Affect in the Virtual Lifeworld of Vaporwave. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. 1 (3) pp.57-76 [Online]. Available from: http://capaciousjournal.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/koc-do-you-want-vaporwave.pdf [Accessed 20 September 2018]
Lyotard, J. (2004) Libidinal Economy. London: continuum
Mackay, R. and Avanessian, M. (2014) #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. Falmouth: Urbanomic
Marx, K and Engels, F (2010) Marx and Engels Collected Works, Volume 6 : Marx and Engels 1845-48. London: Lawrence & Wishart. [Online] Available from: http://www.koorosh-modaresi.com/MarxEngels/V6.pdf [Accessed 27 October 2018]
McMenamin, P. (2014) GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE The sounds of the digital archive. Providence: The College Hill Independent. [Online] Available from: https://www.theindy.org/377 [Accessed 24 October 2018]
Shaviro, S. (2010) Post Cinematic Affect. Ropley: Zero
Uxküll, F, 2018. Mark Fisher – Terminator vs. Avatar (Accelerationism) [#Accelerate]. [Online video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He0VBrT29ww&t=639s [Accessed 30 September 2018]
Uxküll, F, 2018. Mark Fisher – Touchscreen Capture: How Capitalist Cyberspace Inhibits Acceleration (Accelerationism). [Online video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWMr4jtfZ08 [Accessed 30 September 2018]
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