Accelerationism as Anxiety

In his The Scent of Time, Byung Chul Han argues that the concept of acceleration really doesn't make sense anymore[1:58 PM]One can only accelerate with respect to a fixed point[1:59 PM]But we have lost any fixed standard for measuring either cycles or linear progression of time[1:59 PM]So we are haunted by this neurosis because we live outside of history now[1:59 PM]And have no way of coping with being-toward-death[1:59 PM]It's an interesting way of understanding accelerationist projection of anxiety[2:00 PM]They want that Archimedean point to operate as a fulcrum through which they can apply their leverage[2:00 PM]But there's no common point of reference
Category:Accelerationism