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The Missing Subject of Accelerationism
A critical page that asks what kind of political subject is presupposed or erased when accelerationism is treated as a coherent program.
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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 69
Naxos Reply − ⚑ 10 years ago edited "Yesterday I had two reasons to celebrate Simon O’Sullivan’s article The missing subject of accelerationism, which is more like a large hyper-referential review of the #Accelerate Reader, just recently published in Mute Magazine. The first reason was mainly because with it, he offers a schizoanalytic critique about the ‘ism’ of acceleration in the direction of what I have prefigured since last April as a molar acceleration.
Definition · paragraph 69
Naxos Reply − ⚑ 10 years ago edited "Yesterday I had two reasons to celebrate Simon O’Sullivan’s article The missing subject of accelerationism, which is more like a large hyper-referential review of the #Accelerate Reader, just recently published in Mute Magazine.
Definition · paragraph 39
That said, Badiou does precisely offer a theory of the subject (as local instance of this procedure). Indeed, this is at the core of his philosophical oeuvre and, as such, it might be argued that Badiou himself offers us the missing subject formation of accelerationism (formalised as matheme).
Stakes · paragraph 1
ARTICLES THE MISSING SUBJECT OF ACCELERATIONISM By Simon O'Sullivan , 12 September 2014 Politics / AntiCapitalist / Philosophy / Media / Space Travel
History · paragraph 67
For more on Grant, and the missing subject of Speculative Realism more generally, see my ‘Conclusion: Composite Diagram and Relations of Adjacency’, of On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite- Infinite Relation, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 203-222. [xvi] Things are, of course, more complex and overdetermined than this, with a whole cast of philosophical precursors to accelerationism.
Appears in sections
Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.