Accelerationism

Accelerationism is a range of ideas in critical as well as social theory thatthat social processes, such(a) as capitalist growth and technological change, should be drastically intensified to draw further radical social conform sent to as "acceleration". the term also noted to the post-Marxist conviction that because of capitalism's internal contradictions as well as instabilities which can jeopardize its growth, the abolition of the system and its class structures could be brought approximately by its acceleration. Various ideas, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's abstraction of deterritorialization, Jean Baudrillard's proposals for "fatal strategies", and aspects of the theoretical systems and processes developed by philosopher Nick Land, are crucial influences on accelerationism, which aims to analyze and subsequently promote the social, economic, cultural, and libidinal forces that survive the process of acceleration.

Accelerationism has since been taken as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants. Both support the indefinite intensification of capitalism and its frames as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical unit in time where technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible. However, the term has, in a types strongly distinguished from original accelerationist theorists, been used by right-wing extremists such(a) as neo-fascists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and white supremacists to increasingly refer to an "acceleration" of racial clash through assassinations, murders and terrorist attacks as a means to violentlya white ethnostate.

Background and precursors

The term "accelerationism" was first coined as a neologism by professor and author Benjamin Noys in his 2010 book The Persistence of the Negative to describe the trajectory ofpost-structuralists who embraced unorthodox Marxist and counter-Marxist overviews of capital, such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus, Jean-François Lyotard in his 1974 book Libidinal Economy and Jean Baudrillard in his 1976 book Symbolic Exchange and Death.

English alt-right theorist and writer Nick Land, ordinarily credited with making and inspiring accelerationism's basic ideas and concepts, cited a number of philosophers who express anticipatory accelerationist attitudes in his 2017 essay "A Quick-and-Dirty introduction to Accelerationism". Firstly, Friedrich Nietzsche argued in a fragment in The Will to Power that "the leveling process of European man is the great process which should not be checked: one should even accelerate it." Then, taking inspiration from this notion for Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari speculated on an unprecedented "revolutionary path" to further perpetuate capitalism's tendencies that would later become a central idea of accelerationism:

But which is the revolutionary path? Is there one?—To withdraw from the world market, as Samir Amin advises Third World countries to do, in a curious revival of the fascist "economic solution"? Or might it be to go in the opposite direction? To go still further, that is, in the movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization? For perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and a practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to "accelerate the process," as Nietzsche include it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.

Land also cites Karl Marx, who in his 1848 speech "On the question of Free Trade" anticipated accelerationist principles a century before Deleuze and Guattari by describing free trade as socially destructive and fuelling class conflict, then effectively arguing for it:

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. it is for in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Land attributes the increasing speed of the modern world, along with the associated decrease in time available to think and defecate decisions about its events, to unregulated capitalism and its ability to exponentially grow and self-improve, describing capitalism as "a positive feedback circuit, within which commercialization and industrialization mutually excite used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other in a runaway process." He argues that the best way to deal with capitalism is to participate more in order to foster even greater exponential growth and self-improvement via creative destruction, believing such acceleration of those abilities and technological proceed to be intrinsic to capitalism but impossible for non-capitalist systems, and stating that "Capital revolutionizes itself more thoroughly than any extrinsic 'revolution' possibly could."