Courtesy of Alberto, links to The High-Speed Society, slightly dubious but perhaps interesting collection of readings on speed/acceleration.
Here is a slightly difficult to hear video with one of the editors:
And a review in French of his work by Anselm Jappe.
In terms of fiction China's Iron Council takes the revolution = train equation literally to explore the temporality of failed revolution (acceleration or brake (Benjamin). As Joshua Clover reminds us (pdf) Neuromancer is the book of the pre-crisis period (do people still read it?), of, of course, return to Gravity's Rainbow.
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Don't forget to listen excessively to Sunroof!'s track "Universal acceleration", from their album Cloudz.
I don't understand the Gravity's Rainbow reference. "Neuromancer is the book of the pre-crisis period, of, of course, return to Gravity's Rainbow." So the crisis is return to Gravity's Rainbow? Or is the pre-crisis period Gravity's Rainbow?
my bad syntax, Neuromancer (according to Clover) is the book of the pre-current financial crisis accelerationism. Then, you should also return to Gravity's Rainbow as the proto-critique/model of technological / warfare / Weberian rationalisation / accelerationism. Although GR may have somehting revelant to the current crisis - it's got pretty much everything in there
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