The CCRU just vanished,” says Brassier. “And a lot of people – not including me – thought, ‘Good riddance.’” The Xenosystems Exploration & Survey logo symbolizes its core focus on teams, the desire to play with culturally diverse people, to make new friends from all over the world, to interact authentically with each other and to engage in teamwork to achieve a common goal, whilst always sharing a good laugh. Mark Fisher, “‘A social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude’: Popular Culture’s Interrupted Accelerationist Dreams”, e-flux, Journal #46, June 2013: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/46/60084/a-social-and-psychic-revolution-of-almost-inconceivable-magnitude-popular-culture-s-interrupted-accelerationist-dreams/

John Van Houdt, “The Crisis of Negation: An Interview with Alain Badiou”, Continent, issue 1.4 / 2011: http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/65Xenosystems is recruiting a variety of positions, from support staff right the way through to senior management. If you feel you have the required skill set and mindset to contribute to the organization, you can apply. The Council will reconvene at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 29 March, to conclude its general debate on racism and racial discrimination. It will then open its agenda item 10 on technical assistance and capacity building and hold an enhanced interactive dialogue on the oral updates of the High Commissioner and the team of international experts and on technical assistance and capacity building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. Benjamin Noys, “Accelerationism”, No Useless Leniency, 20 October 2008: http://leniency.blogspot.com/2008/10/accelerationism.html

In 1996, the CCRU listed its interests as “cinema, complexity, currencies, dance music, e-cash, encryption, feminism, fiction, images, inorganic life, jungle, markets, matrices, microbiotics, multimedia, networks, numbers, perception, replication, sex, simulation, sound, telecommunications, textiles, texts, trade, video, virtuality, war”. Today, many of these topics are mainstream media and political fixations. Two decades ago, says Grant, “We felt we were the only people on the planet who were taking all this stuff seriously.” The CCRU’s aim was to meld their preoccupations into a groundbreaking, infinitely flexible intellectual alloy – like the shape-shifting cyborg in the 1991 film Terminator 2, a favourite reference point – which would somehow sum up both the present and the future. Cosmonaut Magazine is a free monthly online magazine for Star Citizen made by the community. The team of writers, photographers, artists, and designers aim to create the most incisive coverage, spectacular photography, and arresting design in the ‘verse. Mark Fisher, “‘Frankensteinian Surgeon of the Cities’”, k-punk, 23 October 2008: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010770.htmlIn this lecture we will consider the major role Kantian (critical) philosophy plays in outlining the philosophical underpinnings of Accelerationism, whilst simulataneously understanding the Deleuzoguattarian conception of ‘machines’ via the Kantian lens. This year will be no different. With the help of our current Directors, we aim to build upon the success of our founders, and carry on with both our short & long-term goals. The universe is ever expanding. There are minerals & ore that need prospecting, opportunities that need claiming, and dreams waiting to be built.