Benjamin Noys

is a theorist living in Bognor Regis, UK. His most recent book is The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, forthcoming in September 2010 with Edinburgh University Press. His blog is http://leniency.blogspot.com.

Articles

Marx’s comment that history advances by the “bad side” has inspired an apocalyptic strand of anti-capitalism that supposes history is “on our side”. Benjamin Noys takes issue with the “accelerationist” view that welcomes apocalypse as the decisive moment.

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