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Endgamers A History of Accelerationism - by Jacob Siegel
A widely circulated history page that frames accelerationism as a route from CCRU philosophy to contemporary political and cultural stuckness.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
Core idea
These pages matter because they explain why accelerationism became the archive's main public keyword. They do not merely define a philosophy; they narrate how a contested term spread into journalism, primers, and broad explanatory history.
The mechanism is mapping and periodization. These pages build branch diagrams, origin stories, and public heuristics that make accelerationism legible to non-specialist readers while often smuggling in their own judgments.
That matters because most readers arrive through these public maps rather than through primary CCRU texts. The site needs them in order to show where clarity begins and where flattening starts.
How to read this text
Read first for the map or genealogy the page is constructing, then note which branches or figures are emphasized or collapsed together.
Track where explanatory convenience starts to blur important differences between Land, Prometheanism, and later reactionary receptions. That tension is usually the point.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 3
accelerationism is not human beings or history but intelligence itself. Acceleration is the means to burn away the controls of the “human security system” so a new post-human epoch can be born and a superior artificial intelligence can take its rightful place in the evolutionary chain.
Stakes · paragraph 1
Endgamers: A History of Accelerationism Nick Land’s breed of arcane futurists declare war on time. Jacob Siegel Writes The Scroll · Subscribe Apr 5 This essay originally appeared in issue 2 of RETURN magazine. Look at all that happened between the years 1900 and 1922: President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, the Wright brothers flew the first motor-operated airplane, and Henry Ford invented the Model T car.
Stakes · paragraph 1
Endgamers: A History of Accelerationism Nick Land’s breed of arcane futurists declare war on time. Jacob Siegel Writes The Scroll · Subscribe Apr 5 This essay originally appeared in issue 2 of RETURN magazine.
Stakes · paragraph 1
Endgamers: A History of Accelerationism Nick Land’s breed of arcane futurists declare war on time.
Stakes · paragraph 4
Two critical strands in the formative prehistory of accelerationism can be found in the early writing of Karl Marx. One is the idea that capitalism produces accelerating social contradictions, which generate revolutionary potential, and the other relates to the autonomy of machines.
Appears in sections
Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.