EXCLUSIVE - ROBERT PESTON AND EVAN DAVIS FOUND TO BE MEMBERS OF ‘ACCELERATIONIST’ ANARCHIST FEDERATION SLEEPER CELL AT HEART OF BBC
(Accelerationism) … refers to the idea that capitalist processes should not be resisted but accelerated and that capitalism is both the most destructive and productive moment in history at the same time. Draws from Deleuze’s and Guattari’s conception of capitalism as unleashing massive processes of decoding and deterritorialization (productive), but simultaneously blocking these same forces with immediate compensatory recoding and reterritorialization (destructive). Subsequently accelerationists believe that the proper form of resistance is not withdrawal or a sought ‘exit’ from capitalism, but rather accelerating capitalistic decoding and deterritorialization in order to turn them against themselves. As this quotation from Anti-Oedipus suggests:
‘….But which is the revolutionary path? Is there one? – To withdraw from the world market, as Samir Amin advises Third World Countries to do, in a curious revival of the fascist “economic solution”? Or might it be to go in the opposite direction? To go further still, that is, in the movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization? For perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to “accelerate the process,” as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven’t seen anything yet.
Accelerationism is a strategy that has been hitherto only adopted (rather unsuccessfully) by those at ‘Spiked’ under the guise of Brendan O’Neill. It seems however that elements within the anarchist left may have taken the strategy to another level in an exclusive that will shake the much venerated British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to its very core.
While details remain sketchy it now seems clear that the ‘AFED’ (Anarchist Federation) have maintained a sizeable ‘sleeper cell’ within the BBC for the best part of the last decade. This cell was operationalized, not in order to actively sabotage the organisation in the traditional sense but in the hope that agents could actively facilitate an accelerationist strategy.
PESTON - in what seems like a precision-engineered plan Peston catalysed the run on Northern Rock and precipitated its demise and consequent nationalisation. In the words of Mervyn King, ‘the actions of one arse have brought this crisis six months forward’. Except Peston was no arse - this was the greatest AFED action yet - a run on a bank started by a single individual and the hijacking of a whole national media network by one haugty anarchist infiltrator. The years of handing out AFEDs publication ‘Catalyst’ suddenly seemed ridiculous, ‘This is how industrial sabotge operates in the Network Society’, he was overheard saying to another AFED comrade that worked behind the bar at Shoreditch House ‘….and this is only the beginning’ he ominously added. Later Peston made AFED millions (and in the process rendered them one of most capitalised Anarchist organisation in Europe since the Spanish CNT of the early 1930’s) when in September 2008 in the fraught atmosphere of the global financial crisis he ‘revealed’ that merger talks between HBOS and Lloyds TSB were at an advanced stage. In the minutes before the broadcast, AFED purchased thousands of HBOS shares at the deflated price of 96p, in the hour following it, they were sold at 215p. It is believed that Peston maintains a good working relationship with Russian FSB agent and fellow ‘market provocateur’ Max Keiser.
DAVIS. While Peston hit the markets hard his AFED comrade, Evan Davis was the ‘ideology’ man, suffusing popular ‘common sense’ with an accelerated and increasingly hegemonic belief in the entrepreneur, post-fordism and the ridiculous belief in a ‘knowledge economy’. The two great examples of this are of course the hilarious ‘Dragons Den’ and the almost obvious ‘Made in Britain’ (which nearly gave Davis away to M15 in championing a ‘knowledge economy’ three years after the global financial crisis). This was in retrospect an effective, and at times, comical strategy that took the degenerate ideology of Thatcherism to such an extreme that people simply believed they no longer had to ‘work’ to live - innovation and speculation were sufficient. The simulacrum of work replaced work itself. This was an act of supreme genius and a strategic innovation that sought to build on the Italian autonomist ideas of the ‘refusal of work’ and the ‘strategy of refusal’. By way of explanation Davis was overheard paraphrasing Mario Tronti in a South Kensington ‘Footlocker’ while trying on some Nike ‘AirForce Ones’,
“…while capital dictates the conditions of labour, it is labour which dictates the conditions of capital - by convincing labour that it need only be enterprising and innovative we can create the conditions whereby capital can no longer reproduce itself in the West. By inculcating a sense of entitlement and saying ‘anyone can be a billionaire’, we create the perfect conditions for a revolutionary mass when it all goes tits up after Sub-Prime collapses. We will abolish the one thing capital needs in the West to reproduce itself, ‘the worker’ - by rendering the ‘entrepreneur’ as the hegemonic mobilizing identity to individuals, primarily young adults. Amid a collapse of credit this is to initiate the beginnings of a truly revolutionray class”.
It is believed that ‘Dragons Den’ was operationalized in collaboration with another Anarchist tendency ‘the Mervyn King Collective’ who were behind the production team that gave us ‘The Apprentice’.
Details of this sleeper cell have been passed on to senior management at the BBC and Scotland Yard. Solidarity is extended to comrogues Davis and Peston in their hour of need.
