The Thin Veneer of Civilization

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.

Works referenced:

Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/

Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph

Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207

Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

William James, “The Will to Believe”
https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf

Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain

Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War”
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war

Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c

Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”
https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

The Economist, “Slowbalisation”
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation

Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall)
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_19f/

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614

AltWoke Manifesto
http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/

Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/

Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates”
https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates

Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money”
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8

Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm”
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm

Video Clips

Hail, Caesar!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306

Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w

3D Printed Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&t=917s

Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs