tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post3563658277284824459..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: In Praise of DecelerationPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74096654521381184162021-08-13T11:21:30.674+01:002021-08-13T11:21:30.674+01:00I missed this post until it was linked to in a lat...I missed this post until it was linked to in a later one. Yes, The Corporation Wars trilogy does draw on what I learned about accelerationism and neoreaction when I stumbled across them online a year or two before they were famous.<br /><br />But if anyone thinks the Acceleration (in the novels) are my heroes, I have to disagree. Some of them are sympathetic POV characters, and of course I would hope readers side with them against the dead space nazis, but they're still monsters. The real heroes of the novels are the robots!Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03493440163559858462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16649649810742060402021-06-14T18:55:14.054+01:002021-06-14T18:55:14.054+01:00Ken does occasionally drop in around these parts. ...Ken does occasionally drop in around these parts. He's a keen observer and follower of radical social theory - as you might have guessed!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-6931242838592951342021-06-14T18:53:59.053+01:002021-06-14T18:53:59.053+01:00Had to chuckle at this comment. Go read some Lenin...Had to chuckle at this comment. Go read some Lenin and perhaps learn a thing or two.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-5236526664329045592021-06-14T11:50:22.721+01:002021-06-14T11:50:22.721+01:00wow, a lot of faux radicalism in the first few par...wow, a lot of faux radicalism in the first few paragraphs, and then bam, your justification for being mired in bourgeois politics and sticking with the Thatcherite New Labour project.<br /><br />In fact this article is a good example of the very worst sort of 'intellectualism', Marx and Einstein being examples of the best sort.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19349558964278591032021-06-14T09:19:19.468+01:002021-06-14T09:19:19.468+01:00Another science fiction reference, I'm afraid....Another science fiction reference, I'm afraid. Ken McLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy is in part about the conflict between the Accelerationists and the Reactionaries. I always found the Accelerationists (who are McLeod's heroes) a bit implausible and it's interesting to learn from you that there's a serious political ideology underlying it.It's also interesting that, if your analysis is right, McLeod's two sides are actually fighting for the same cause . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com