The Ultimate Contradiction, Building Machines to Save Humans

0:00 Intro _ the Gods of Technology (Deus ex Machina)  

3:56 Part 1: some context  _ the capitalist trap, double binds, and looking for an escape, reality vs. abstraction

11:27 Part 2: the futurists_ from industrialization to deregulation to cyberspace, 1909 manifesto, praise machines and war, but scorn for women

17:41 Part 3: the accelerationists _ the 2008 crash, bailout, failures and no foreseeable changes, humans slow down tech progress, we have lost imagination and are dying anyway

23:33 Part 4:  the death drive and the implications, breaking the machine, following capital  

29:54 Outro _ next episode on Malign Velocities by Benjamin Noys