[ebooks] Teach Yourself Guitar by Harry Taussig at Arts-Photography

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We are told our lives are too fast; subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more; work more; enjoy more; produce more; and consume more. Thatrsquo;s one familiar story. Another; stranger; story is told here: of those who think we havenrsquo;t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion; /Malign Velocities/ tracks this accelerationism as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism - the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the cyberpunk phuturism of the rsquo;90s and rsquo;00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism - suggests the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage; negate; and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures of speed.