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Meltdown (1994)

By Nick Land

Meltdown is a video setting of the 1994 text of the same name by the British philosopher Nick Land, written under the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) and published in the CCRU's Swarm 1. The text is one of the founding statements of accelerationism. It reads the history of capitalism as a single runaway process. Its opening line is "The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off," and its closing passages include the much-quoted "Neo-China arrives from the future." The writing draws heavily on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This film is not part of the UbuWeb archive. The source text is published online by the CCRU at ccru.net.

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