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Some Belated Response to Grant’s “LA 2019”
Considered as one of the fundamental texts in the British Accelerationist strand is Iain Hamilton Grant’s 1996 essay “LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis. Some Realist Notes on Bladerunner and the Postmodern Condition” to which his very idea of the “postmodern” was lifted directly and almost uncritically from the writings of the French Philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard.…