This week we will be looking at Aria Dean’s ‘Notes on Blacceleration’. An alternative to right and left accelerationisms, blaccelerationism is a portmanteau of black and accelerationism which suggests that ‘accelerationism always already exists in the territory of blackness, whether it knows it or not – and conversely blackness is always already accelerationist.’
Aria Dean’s gripping essay offers a definition of the term accelerationism, which was briefly mentioned by Thacker’s ‘In the Dust of this Planet’. In resonance with our reading of Malabou in the previous session, Dean ‘takes a long view of history’, finding the declared missing subject of accelerationism in blackness, and the entangled histories of capitalism and slavery.
You can join us in the Westmere Hub at 5:15pm on Tuesday July 2nd.
This week’s reading is available here.
There’s also an earlier video recording of this same essay here. The Q&A at the end of this session is also insightful, and recommended extra listening!
You may also wish to join our mailing list, in which case you’ll want to email Ben Horn at: bxh873@student.bham.ac.uk
Optional musical accompaniment: Intense – The Quickening (1993)
We look forward to seeing you all at the session!
Niall, Arzu & Ben