Accelerationism §

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• Promethean Politics: Promethean politics draws on accelerationist thought in envisioning a revolutionary politics of unbounded technological development.
• Speculative Fabulation: Speculative fabulation explores alternative futures and narratives, providing imaginative resources for accelerationist thought.
• Technological Singularity: Accelerationism envisions hastening technological development to bring about a singularity event.
• Futurism: Accelerationism shares futurism’s orientation towards radical technological and social change.
• Singularitarianism: Singularitarianism is a movement focused on achieving a technological singularity, a core concept in accelerationist thought.
• Desiring-Machines: Accelerationism is a political theory that advocates for the acceleration of technological progress, which could potentially include the development of Desiring-Machines or artificial intelligence systems with their own desires or goals.
• Unconditional Accelerationism: Unconditional accelerationism advocates accelerating capitalism and technology without any defined political goals.
• Transhumanism: Accelerationism aligns with transhumanist goals of radically enhancing human capabilities through technology.
• Anarcho-Primitivism: Anarcho-primitivists critique accelerationism as promoting further alienation from nature and ecological destruction.
• Radical Politics: Accelerationism is a radical political philosophy that seeks to accelerate capitalist processes to prompt revolutionary change.
• Speculative Realism: Speculative realism provides a philosophical framework for thinking about accelerationism and non-human processes.
• Cyberpunk: Cyberpunk fiction explores themes of accelerated technological change and its societal impacts, resonating with accelerationist thought.
• Extropianism: Extropianism advocates using technology to overcome human limits, aligning with accelerationist goals of radical enhancement.
• Xenofeminism: Xenofeminism embraces accelerationist ideas while critiquing traditional feminism’s naturalistic leanings.
• Anti-Capitalism: Some accelerationist thinkers view capitalism as a system to be accelerated to the point of self-destruction, leading to a post-capitalist society.
• Techno-Utopian Thought: Accelerationism shares techno-utopian optimism about the potential of advanced technology to bring about a better future.
• Nihilism: Accelerationism has been associated with a nihilistic embrace of destruction and chaos as a path to revolutionary change.
• Existential Risk: Accelerationism raises concerns about existential risks posed by advanced technologies if their development is mismanaged.
• Posthumanism: Accelerationism envisions a future where technological acceleration leads to a condition beyond traditional humanism.
• Landian Accelerationism: Landian accelerationism, named after theorist Nick Land, advocates unleashing capitalist and technological acceleration.