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An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of
texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in
contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a
contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical
political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt,
critique, or detourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its
uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.
#Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the
impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the
theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU,
across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF
cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in
texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed
by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.
On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by
Marx that call attention to his own "Prometheanism," and key works
from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of
new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal
capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century. At
the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this
disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical
conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and
capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet
urgently galvanized today by the poverty of "reasonable"
contemporary political alternatives.
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