Excerpt from Jack Spicer, “LANGUAGE,” reprinted with permission, copyright 2008 by Wesleyan University Press; from My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008), 376. Portions of chapter 1 were previously published as “Hyperbolic Futures: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction,” Cascadia Subduction Zone 1, no. 2. Portions of chapter 2 were previously published as “Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption,” e-flux 46 (June 2013), and in Victoria Ivanova and Agnieszka Pindera, eds., Turborealism: Neither Bow nor Arrow (thinking with a movement that almost was) (Donetsk/Warsaw: IZOLYATSIA: 2014).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452958552

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