AS A FOUNDATION OF OUR GROUPS PROJECT RADIO PIECE I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED TO EXLORE THE CONCEPT, PHILOSOPHY AND INFLUENCE OF ACCELLERATIONISM. MY INITAL INTEREST WAS SPIKED FROM AN OBSERVATION OF OUR CURRENT RELATIONSHIP WITH ATTENTION AND THE NEED FOR IMMEDIACY.
SOCIAL MEDIA HAS NO DOUBT WHITTLED DOWN THE MARGINS OF OUR ATTENTION SPAN THROUGH A CULTURE OF FOCUSING ON HYPER-INDIVIDALITY, SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION AND HYPERMAXXING ANY QUALITY OF ANY SUBJECT PURELY TO PRESENTS ITS CREATORS 15 MINUTES OF FAME. NICK LANDS IDEAS ON A FUTURE IN WHICH CULTURE HAS COLLAPSED UPON ITSELF, THE EXCESS, GREED AND DESIRE FOR PROFIT HAS LAUNCHED HUMANITY INTO A TECHNOSPHERE REMINISCENT OF YOUR WORST DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE.
ALL IDEAS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE SACRED AND SPECIAL, MORPHED INTO A CACOPHONY OF THE FAMILIAR, MUNDANE AND ABSURD. MY IDEA IS TO CREATE A PIECE OF AUDIO THAT REFLECTS THE IDEA OF SPEEDING UP A PROCESS AS OF A MEAN TO AN END, A NEW CYCLE FORCED INTO IMMEDIACY. THE IDEA IS TO PRESENT AN AUDIO REPRESENTATION OF THIS PROCESS, EXPLORING THEMES OF RELIGIOUS DOOMSDAY CULTS, SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS AS MARTYRS OF ACCELLERATIONISM AND ITS ULTIMATE END OF PSEUDO ABSOLUTION THROUGH MERGING MAN AND MACHINE IN SERVICE OF INEVITABLE PROGRESS OR PROPHECY.