Heidegger’s Unconscious Accelerationism – Virgilio A. Rivas

“Heidegger foresees Dasein as transforming itself into a post-cogitational Man. Cognizant of the irreversible consequences of the exercise of self-willing that privileges human autonomy, Heidegger proposed the concept of Dasein to give way to a new mode of appropriation. As post-cogitational it must be presumed that Dasein is already divested of the ‘metaphysic’ of animal rationale that has recently evolved into a highly abstract computational entity. It is in this sense that the power of appropriation of things or objects no longer rests in Man (cogitative) but in Dasein, at the same time that the mode of ‘appropriation shifts from signifying to asignifying, cogitational to post-cogitational, a changed condition of existence sufficient for, yet still untried, poetic kind of appropriation.
In present-day form of nihilism this poetic kind of appropriation is rather invested with the character of resolute transmutation with regard to objects and things yet oblivious of its historical derivation as technical appropriation in terms of conflating the logos and mythos that must first be established as a hermeneutic interpretive norm. Left accelerationism conflates the mythical use of Prometheus with the logical use of the mythos. Heidegger for his part distorts the mythos in favor of the logos that alone can ‘poeticize’ (an enhanced category in place of the supposed unthinking poeticism of the myths) the logical kernel of mythology. Nietzsche’s critique of ‘distortion’ comes around: the conflation of logos and mythos will make the present suffer ‘harm’, that is, the harm of forgetfulness. In the case of Heidegger, the present suffers from voiding its mythological roots through the self-mastering act of philosophy vis-à-vis the hermeneutical tensions of existence. In the case of left accelerationism, it suffers from voiding the truth of the myths in repurposing their functions to the ends of the techno-logical.

The real yet unstated accelerationism of the left accelerationist manifesto, which Heidegger may almost entirely agree with, lies in this kind of conflation. Incidentally, this has also been the trademark of philosophical abstraction since its departure from the mythos.”

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3 responses to “Heidegger’s Unconscious Accelerationism – Virgilio A. Rivas

  1. Quite the pipe dream of communism aka Badiou. I suspect. The real question should be about if I should smoke a blunt or take a bong hit. I also suspect that by the time we actually have a Mars colony these (post? ) existential ego driven discourses will have played out. But probably not; we love getting high!

    Cool bit though. I agree.

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