The Acceleration of Inertia: The Political Economy of Speed

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dc.contributor.authorGlezos, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-04T20:26:59Z
dc.date.available2015-11-04T20:26:59Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2009-06-06
dc.description.abstractThis paper consists of a Deleuzian reading of Schumpeter’s account of technological innovation within capitalism. It describes the tension in Schumpeter between creative destruction (the drive to innovate), and what he calls restrictive practices (the drive to conserve and forestall change). In Deleuzian terms this becomes modeled in the tension between capitalism as a deterritorializing machine and an apparatus of capture. I then use this theoretical framework to investigate the digitization of information, noting how capitalism seeks to accelerate information processes to improve efficiency, but in doing so, runs the risk of losing control of that information (the rise of piracy, creative commons projects, consumer created content, remixing, etc.). It involves a discussion of the interplay of technological and legal restraints on information (DRM as well as Patents) to attempt to control access to information, and technological, social and legal attempts to circumvent them.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Summer Institute, Workshop and Conference Grant – Critical Digital Studies Workshopen_US
dc.identifier.citationGlezos, Simon. "The Acceleration of Inertia: The Political Economy of Speed." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 6 June 2009. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2009/06/the-acceleration-of-inertia-the-political-economy-of-speed/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6774
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Digital Studies Workshopsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectGilles Deleuzeen_US
dc.subjectaccelerationen_US
dc.subjectpolitical economy of speeden_US
dc.subjectdigital capitalismen_US
dc.subjectinformation controlen_US
dc.subjectdeterritorializationen_US
dc.subjectJoseph Schumpeteren_US
dc.titleThe Acceleration of Inertia: The Political Economy of Speeden_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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