Situationist-Accelerationism

Why I Ship Debord x Land: Reflections on Situationist-Accelerationism

at last, we have found it. Nick Debord.

“When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings-figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behavior. Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: the most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society.”

-Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 18

The whole point of accelerationism is to hasten the real world transforming into mere images in a hauntological way. Accelerating the world-turned-image into a point where they revolt, and abolish the ways mass media control us. In other words: if the internet and other forms of media are unjust, abolish the internet and other forms of media. The hauntological effects of mass media are well-known to have hyper-nostalgic effects on ourselves: The spectacle uses the masters tools in order to accelerate the masters house, so it could be that it accelerates itself, folding quantum physics into shapes, bending them in order to either create a dystopian transhumanist society, or a time travelling meta-society.

The dystopian transhumanist society (imagine a combination of 1984 and val-ha11a) works in 3 ways: to destabilize humans through demiurgic Spectacle, to leave them emotionless and braindead and preoccupied by fictional nonsense, and to castrate life-affirming views and melt it into a society of video surveillance and hypersexuality. Neoliberalism is almost there, working tandem with the Spectacle in order to create controlled opposition and false rebellion. We’ve seen it with Bedroom Pop back in 2017, and we’re seeing it with alt-kids and Hyperpop in the early 2020s.

Accelerating the Spectacle, is a more safer solution than the failed revolts that we’ve seen in the 20th century, May 68 especially. Using violence in order to upset or even abolish the Spectacle will turn the gun on us, only increasing the demiurgic pain-levels that the Spectacle has on the soul. The only foreseeable way out the Spectacle, my friends, is through it.

(this is kinda short cuz i’ve been thinking about this for like a week now, how nick land’s work is similar to guy debord in some ways. sorry if its shorter than the usual stuff i write lol)