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ŠUM#20 - Psychotic Accelerationism
"ŠUM#20 - Psychotic Accelerationism" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Definition · paragraph 9
Thus, in a radical contrast to this perspective, psychotic accelerationism refuses to make this cut, it never wants to return from the dream world of infinite becoming to a reality that is nothing else but something that predefines or determines you in advance.
Definition · paragraph 8
Otherwise the whole point doesn’t make sense, i.e. if the escape becomes more and more similar to the cage. From the perspective of the psychotic, selection is thus something to be radically avoided, as this is the only principle that can trap accelerationism for good.
Definition · paragraph 9
When dreaming is successful, it can only be self- referential, as the concept of reality becomes hollowed out and loses most (or all) of its meaning. In psychotic accelerationism, realism itself becomes the final boss and the only problem, a pernicious yet residual constraint t
Definition · paragraph 6
But the real problem with his version of accelerationism is that Land truly believes in real patterns, while for the psychotic, these are simply the (by)products of participatory realism, of the way the observers are simulated within reality that is itself a simulation.
Stakes · paragraph 11
This, above all, loses agency and the awareness that invariants are a consequence of the kind of agent you are and that, by definition, they cannot be outside of you. Following Bach, psychotic accelerationism becomes operative at the level where the agent takes control over the patterns it records and thus the language it uses to construct or simulate reality.
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