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Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip by Jules Evans Medium
A critical page that packages accelerationism as philosophical pathology, making it a revealing example of public backlash and moral simplification.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show what happens when accelerationism becomes a public object of alarm, critique, or exhaustion. The label is no longer just disputed internally; it becomes something attached to danger, incoherence, or political failure.
Critique works here by diagnosing slippage. The page asks what happens when a branch label becomes a generalized media object and is pulled toward backlash, moral panic, or retrospective denunciation.
That matters because the site cannot explain accelerationism responsibly without showing how its public afterlife exceeds philosophy. These pages keep visible the costs of treating the keyword as frictionless shorthand.
How to read this text
Read first for which branch or public image of accelerationism is being criticized before deciding whether the page is rejecting the whole field.
Track where critique turns into genealogy or warning. That movement usually reveals the page's deeper model of what accelerationism became.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip Jules Evans · Follow 15 min read · Jan 21, 2023 1.4K 11 This is a story about dangerous ideas, and words’ magical power to heal and to harm.
Definition · paragraph 1
Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip Jules Evans · Follow 15 min read · Jan 21, 2023 1.4K 11 This is a story about dangerous ideas, and words’ magical power to heal and to harm. It’s about AI, Charles Manson, dubstep, Neo-Nazis, occultism, and a lot of amphetamine, but it’s mainly about Nicholas Land.
Definition · paragraph 18
Written by Jules Evans 90K Followers · 253 Following Author of Philosophy for Life and other books. www.challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com Follow Responses (11) Accelerationism Nick Land Transhumanism Philosophy Culture Studies
Definition · paragraph 4
It’s a worship of intelligence. With Accelerationism, at least in Land’s case, I get the feeling it’s more a misanthropic hatred of the human condition and a desire to annihilate consciousness and replace it with the machine. It’s philosophy as modish death-wish.
History · paragraph 21
See all from Jules Evans Recommended from Medium A brief history of ‘mindfucking’ Maliciously messing with a person’s reality while they’re tripping…or online. Nov 25, 2022 6) Dune, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and ‘occult eugenics’ Adepts of the Golden Dawn believed in a form of occult eugenics, whereby sex magic could… Dec 10, 2021 Jules Evans 1.1K 15 Jules Evans 172 4
Appears in sections
Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.