Malign Velocities : Accelerationism and Capitalism. by Benjamin Noys. No Customer Reviews. Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at University College Chichester. He is a specialist on the cultural politics of critical theory and the author of Georges Bataille (Pluto Press, 2000), The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press 2010) and Malign Velocities (Zero Books by Benjamin Noys. Add to my bookshelf. Publisher Benjamin Noys' Malign Velocities is an attempt to catalogue and describe an intellectual movement within capitalism that's gaining a new and disturbing influence lately. Accelerationism — although now largely a right-wing movement — has some origins in leftist thought about capitalism. Rejecting this conclusion, "Malign Velocities" tracks this 'accelerationism' as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism - the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory and coordinator of the MA English Literature. His recent work includes the books The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press 2010) and Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero Books 2014), both dealing with the state of MALIGN VELOCITIES by Benjamin Noys is a recent work on the subject of accelerationism, a notion whose general thrust is that, in order to achieve the goals of revolution, capitalism should be unchained, turbo-charged, and driven to its natural conclusion so that it explodes and dies. Benjamin Noys in conversation about his new book, Malign Velocities in which he explores the argument for embracing the increasing tempo of capitalist production. October 30th: Malign Velocities with David Joselit and Benjamin Noys. Unavailable. Center for the Humanities. Benjamin Noys: Malign Velocities. 5 years ago5 years ago. Benjamin Noys. Comment must not exceed 1000 characters. By: Benjamin Noys. Publisher: Zero Books. Print ISBN: 9781782793007, 1782793003. Benjamin Noys is professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester. He's author of "Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism.". Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, Oct 2014. Review: Wark. Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, Falmouth: Urbanomic, and Berlin: Merve, May 2014, 536 pp, PDF, ARG. Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, Oct 2014. Review: Wark. Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (eds.), #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, Falmouth: Urbanomic, and Berlin: Merve, May 2014, 536 pp, PDF, ARG. Author:Noys, Benjamin [Noys, Benjamin] Language: eng Format: epub ISBN: 978-1-78279-299-4 Publisher: John Hunt (NBN) Published: 2014-10-30T16:00:00+00:00. Machinic revolution must therefore go in the opposite direction to socialistic regulation; pressing towards ever more uninhibited