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Accelerationism Capitalism as Critique - Meta-Nomad
"Accelerationism Capitalism as Critique - Meta-Nomad" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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These pages matter because accelerationism is the archive's most overused public keyword. The site needs a cluster that distinguishes history, primer, and public explanation from the doctrine-like certainty that later reception often projects onto the term.
Primers and histories do the work by sorting competing branches, periodizations, and origin stories. They organize a noisy field into public maps that can be argued over, revised, or contested.
That matters because later debates about accelerationism often begin by flattening distinct projects into one thing. This cluster keeps the section anchored in branch logic, genealogy, and disagreement rather than slogan inflation.
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Stakes · paragraph 40
I have thus far made it clear that Accelerationism is primarily a philosophy of time, it is understood as a continuation of critique and attends to the transcendental framework of time as primary. The connection between capitalism and time is where we find the definition of what it is to ‘Accelerate’.
Stakes · paragraph 40
I have thus far made it clear that Accelerationism is primarily a philosophy of time, it is understood as a continuation of critique and attends to the transcendental framework of time as primary. The connection between capitalism and time is where we find the definition of what it is to ‘Accelerate’. As noted capitalism has a critical understanding of time and finds within it its ability to act as auto-construction between and over temporal events.
Stakes · paragraph 1
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20190615185955/https://www.met… A-NOMAD Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique Posted on 27/05/2019 (27/05/2019) by metanomad Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique With special thanks to: Amy Ireland for helping me to understand the Outside, and for taking the time to answer my consistent questions.
Stakes · paragraph 46
If capitalism crumbles under its own weight via resource over-extraction etc. then we no longer would have the dynamics of capitalism to solve our problems, and as such the Outside would dissolve, or at least its methods of communication would disappear until such time as the entire assemblage is made possible once more. There is however a quasi-conclusion to the theorization of Accelerationism. In that, it is arguably the first philosophical effort or critique in which the human truly stands alone.
Stakes · paragraph 40
In this manner, the entire canon of Left-Accelerationist writings fall flat on their incorrect readings of Accelerationism in relation to time. Whereby they believe that accelerating capitalism will lead to a means of emancipation of the worker in the future, via automation etc.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.