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The #AltWoke Companion
"The #AltWoke Companion" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Core idea
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.
How to read this text
Read first for what version of accelerationism the page is naming or periodizing before following its judgment about the movement.
Track how the page distinguishes origins, branches, or public uses. Those distinctions are usually more important than the headline verdict.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 26
It is the difference between the Marxist understanding of history and society - the potential for classless utopia - and the clerical insistence on the immutable ways of tradition and order. Portmanteau of “eidetic” and “ideology.” (See hypostition, meme science) FALC - Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Left Accelerationism with better PR.
Definition · paragraph 19
#AltWoke challenges adherents of Left Accelerationism to materialize their theory. Is this just another intellectually trendy circle-jerk for graphic designers in Helsinki, academic careerists, cryptocurrency enthusiasts, and Verso book deals?
Definition · paragraph 9
Why Is #AltWoke Necessary? ANON was shaken out of its slumber on November 9th. Climate change, global inequality, police militarization, Brexit, the rise of online fact-resistant and anti-intellectual populism, the expanding deep state, Wall Street’s convergence with Silicon Valley, the global health crisis, and the demagoguery of the Trump administration are all symptomatic of and catalysts for Right Accelerationism.
Definition · paragraph 19
#AltWoke challenges adherents of Left Accelerationism to materialize their theory.
Stakes · paragraph 25
#AltWoke Glossary Anihilorgasmia - AltWoke critique of nihilism as insufficient or incomplete. Nihilism is sex without the orgasm. Hyper-Left-Accelerationism - The idea that technosocial processes within capitalism can be hastened, expanded, or repurposed even more than was originally thought by first generation Left Accelerationists.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.