Claim · 2013-05-14 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Williams and Srnicek's manifesto of 2013 states, as its account of Nick Land's "visioning of capital", that in it the human can be discarded "as mere drag to an abstract planetary intelligence rapidly constructing itself".

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What it connects

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics → bears on → Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politicsbears on ↓Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence

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Date: 2013-05-14 · publication Records dated 2013 →
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Relay of another author
Missing element: The passage reports that in Land's "visioning of capital" the human is discarded in favour of a self-constructing planetary intelligence; it does not state that capital is that intelligence, that the intelligence is a machine intelligence, or that capital is the process through which a machine intelligence assembles itself.

Scope and limitsA relay: the manifesto reports its reading of Land's view and disputes Land's conclusion (it states that "Landian neoliberalism confuses speed with acceleration"); it does not state the proposition as its authors' own. Land's own texts are recorded separately.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics

Critical Legal Thinking (criticallegalthinking.com) · 2013-05-14

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Source excerpt

“In this visioning of capital, the human can eventually be discarded as mere drag to an abstract planetary intelligence rapidly constructing itself from the bricolaged fragments of former civilisations.”

Location in source Section 02, "INTEREGNUM: On Accelerationisms" (spelling as in the source), point 2

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Alex Williams; Nick Srnicek
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 1f5468e63107aa6c91b34ab97a10a5bd4b8c415aa54c9d4c0ac0be36a24a764a). Critical Legal Thinking web page dated 14 May 2013, as served on 2026-10-31.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics”, 2013-05-14.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (29 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 71) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review.

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