OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 58463

accelerationism

/əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aceleracionismo
The idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded and accelerated in order to generate radical social change.
Land (2011) has brought forward the notion of accelerationism: Rather than halting the onslaught of capital (such as by defending a welfare state or defending the right to work), a…
The new accelerationisms instead concentrate primarily on constructing a conceptual space in which we can once again ask what to do with the tendencies and machines identified by t…
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