Claim · 2014-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Mackay and Avanessian's introduction to #Accelerate of 2014 names Land's “Circuitries” and describes its opening.

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Introduction (#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader) → cites → Circuitries

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Introduction (#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader)cites ↓Circuitries

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Date: 2014-05 · publication Records dated 2014 →

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Introduction (#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader)

Urbanomic; the introduction posted as a PDF on the publisher's book page · 2014-05

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“It is immediately apparent from the opening of Nick Land’s ‘Circuitries’ that a darkness has descended over the festive atmosphere of desiring-production envisaged by the likes of Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard and Lipovetsky.”

Location in source Introduction, PDF p. 21

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Robin Mackay; Armen Avanessian
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 aaa0d971df3127f2197db97cb877671b826f63884a631e33bbffbe622e29c3fb). Publisher's PDF of the editors' introduction; the book page lists the original edition as May 2014 and a 2019 edition; which edition the PDF reproduces is not stated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian, “Introduction (#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader)”, 2014-05.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (33 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 152) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Date. Urbanomic's book page lists the original edition as 'Paperback, May 2014'; the posted PDF does not state its edition.

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