Simon Sellars, the author of the work guilty of having generated this thread, responds to these two arguments by stating that both of them are essentially incapable of describing the political scope of his work. Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe by Simon Sellars. Art, on the contrary, “can be many more things.” In other words, art can do what politics should not: for example, transgress the logic of the rational management of the world. Beneath the explicit theorization of the non-principles of Ballardianism, and the description of a reality which is rapidly collapsing under the weight of the constant acceleration of technocapitalism, the book conceals a secret doctrine, a doctrine which seems to be unfolding itself without the protagonist’s and, to a certain extent, as Sellars himself candidly confirmed in a private conversation, the author’s of the novel itself knowledge or consent. . What’s the point in trying to capture it in a defined political and philosophical framework? Sellars has spent so much energy in throwing off, discouraging and diverting any form of explanation of any possible political content of his book that it would seem at least indelicate to frustrate his efforts by revealing what, in my opinion, he has unknowingly hid within Applied Ballardianism. More occult, less acceleration. , but no theory can coherently enclose this manifestation.

If they’ll want to discuss his work further, they’d better begin to accept his “anti-intellectual shtick” and stop trying to find shortcuts, which surely sound intellectually respectable, but are to be considered, also and more importantly, obvious and insufficient. “To accelerate beyond lightspeed is to reverse the direction of time. Nothing human makes it out of the near-future, and, paraphrasing Burroughs, who believed that Ballard touched the, Ballardianism shows us the essentially non-human roots of humanity’s so-called progress and future. In other words, we can say that the long shadow of modernity in which we are immersed shows us how the clear division between past, present and future is, probably since the dawn of time, but certainly in this historical moment, an elaborate hoax: the three temporal dimensions coexist in the form of alchemical mixtures of anonymous materials, chasing each other as if they were a loop, and causing reactions in a weird and non-linear manner. , a theory that claims to be totally neutral and descriptive, thus justifying the lack of any explicit critical engagement. Are we supposed to quit trying and wait for the end of the world?

This vision of the world, in which the acceleration of technocapitalism has reached an inhuman level of complexity and time loses its canonical structures, turning into an uncontrollable spiral out of which emerge a multiplicity of worlds, confronts us with the most complex and, in a sense, nagging question: what now? Art can disclose planetary, inhuman and eerie movements, pushing politics towards overcoming themselves and taking into consideration what is not immediately present or what cannot be controlled, at least in this historical moment, by human beings. These paradoxical geometric figures are one of the crucial elements of Ballardianism’s political imagery. – Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail, Copyright © 2020 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes, Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe, Šum 14: Ljubljanastrophe: Alien Perspectives. Eventually, in science fiction, modernity completes its process of theological revisionism, by re-discovering eschatological culmination in the time-loop. My goal is to create a field-guide to establish a first contact with the deep logic of Ballardianism. Simon Sellars Rather than trying to mold and shape matter (because, as it’s easy to guess, we are still not talking about people, subjects and parties, but the anonymous materials of the world) as if we were its enlightened engineers, the goal of anti-praxis is to free all its expressive power. Micaela Doti, Linda Lazzaro, More occult, less acceleration: an anti-practical field-guide to Simon Sellars’ Applied Ballardianism, “a hybrid theory-fiction litcrit-cum-SF novel”, The norm in matters of the human psyche is the vindication and use of freedom, as power of revision and of institution of norms, an assumption that implies, normally, the risk of madness. and the rationalist delusions of total control that have been so prominent in modernity, anti-praxis proposes a constant effort towards an essentially non-human freedom, in which our species is a part of the whole but it’s absolutely not its center.

The world, taken in this time spiral, is full of alternative pasts, presents and futures; the Ballardianist just has to decide to pay the price of following the direction of these schismatic feedback loops and resistances in order to overcome the closed horizon of the present.

Italy Ballard’s atrocities are, therefore, an integral part of an austere and rigorous xenopolitics. The result of this research is, however, disastrous. In particular, Ballardianism seems able to thrive in perfect harmony with a concept formalized by Edmund Berger and Vincent Garton: The first principle is easily understood: if, as Ballardianism states, the economic system in which we live has reached levels of inhuman complexity and a totally de-personalized and de-personalizing structure, politics cannot do anything against this creature as long as it remains confined in its humanist and subjectivist tropes. Ballardianism could very easily be an example of what Reza Negarestani recently called zero-claims theories, a theory that claims to be totally neutral and descriptive, thus justifying the lack of any explicit critical engagement. The only winning strategy is to fight the monster on a mutually-shared battleground, to root politics in the impersonal materiality of, quoting Eugene Thacker, the world-without-us, to reach the speed of technocapitalist acceleration and to disperse all forms of anthropocentrism and subjectivism, tracing, to use Deleuze and Guattari’s jargon, lines of flight from both the system in which we are enclosed and the identities that bind us to the system itself.


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