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CCRU

  1. (historical) Initialism of Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
    • 2013, Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN:
      Vectored through cyberpunk fiction and the post-rave speed-up of Jungle and drum-and-bass, Nick Land and the CCRU's discourse aimed at maximum intensification into immanence until ‘impending human extinction becomes accessible as a dance floor’.
    • 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.