The seductive dangers of speed
Jul 05, 2017•29 min•Ep. 10
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Episode description
The accelerating pace of political and economic change can be disorienting – but, for some, change isn’t happening fast enough.
Matthew Taylor is joined by the journalist Andy Beckett and the philosophers Benjamin Noys and Nina Power to find out about ‘Accelerationism’ a philosophy with both Left and Right variants - bubbling into the mainstream - that embraces speed and disruption as the only route to progress.
Produced by Ben Irvine and Samuel Shelton Robinson
Reading
- Andy Beckett, ‘Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in’, Guardian Long Read, 11 May 2017
- Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities (Zero 2014)
- Nina Power, ‘Decapitalism, Left Scarcity and the State’, Fillip 20 – Fall 2015
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