No Speed Limit Quotes

“life’s intensity, like a sine wave, closes in on a limit without ever reaching it.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“Capitalism has to transform plenitude into scarcity, because it cannot endure its own abundance.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“If posthuman self-alteration is not folded into an aesthetic of self-cultivation, then it will only be answerable to the programs of large corporations.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“no one has ever died from contradictions.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“What is the appeal of accelerationism today? It can be understood as a response to the particular social and political situation in which we currently seem to be trapped: that of a long-term, slow-motion catastrophe.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“Wilde thus had a wonderful political rationalization for his extravagantly privileged existence: just lie around all day in loose crimson garments reading Plato and sipping brandy and be your own communist society . . .”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“I am entirely serious, therefore, in suggesting that something like Wilde’s aestheticism is a relevant model for postcapitalism.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“This leads to a veritable Kantian Antinomy of the aesthetic under late capitalism. Aesthetics must be simultaneously promoted beyond all measure, and yet reduced to nothing.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“We should therefore reject the entire dichotomy between central planning, on the one hand, and market “rationality” on the other.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism

“Audre Lord famously argued that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
― Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism