Скачать или смотреть What is Accelerationism? From Nick Land to e/acc

Core Thesis: Societal stagnation is the existential threat. Unleashing technology and capitalism is the solution.
Philosophical Roots:
Nietzsche: Accelerate leveling processes.
Marx: Free trade hastens social revolution.
Deleuze & Guattari: Push capitalism's decoding forces further.
Key Concepts:
Prometheanism: No limits, post-human rationality.
Inhumanism: No stable human essence.
Hyperstition: Fictions that make themselves real.
Political Variants:
RAcc (Right): Unregulated capitalism as a revolutionary force.
LAcc (Left): Repurpose capitalist tech for post-capitalist ends.
Black Acceleration: A critique reframing inhumanism as historical oppression.
e/acc (Effective): Unrestricted tech/AI progress as a cosmic purpose.

Explores accelerationism, an ideology positing that technology and capitalism should be unleashed, not constrained, as societal stagnation is the true existential threat. Accelerationism advocates using processes like capitalism and technological change to create radical social transformation by pushing destructive forces past their breaking point. Its philosophical roots include Nietzsche's call to accelerate leveling processes, Marx's view of free trade hastening social revolution, and Deleuze and Guattari's concept of capitalism as a radically decoding and de-territorializing force, urging further acceleration rather than withdrawal. Key concepts include Prometheanism, which rejects immutable limits and exalts post-human rationality for unlimited transformation; Inhumanism, which disputes any stable human essence; the preference for the objective Scientific Image over subjective common sense; and Hyperstition, where beliefs about the future causally bring about their own reality, particularly evident in capitalism. Politically, right-wing accelerationism (RAcc), exemplified by Nick Land, views unregulated capitalism as the ultimate revolutionary force leading to a techno-capital singularity, advocating for CEO-run states to remove human decelerators. Left-wing accelerationism (LAcc) argues that capitalism has stagnated and become a decelerator, advocating for repurposing capitalist infrastructure like automation and AI for post-capitalist goals such as Fully Automated Luxury Communism, rejecting local folk politics for abstract, global solutions. Black acceleration offers a critique, highlighting that the inhuman state desired by some accelerationists has been a historical reality of oppression for black people under racial capitalism, reframing it as a category of oppression rather than liberation. Effective accelerationism (e/acc) in Silicon Valley advocates for unrestricted technological progress, especially Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), viewing stagnation as the greatest existential risk and aligning with a cosmic purpose to climb the Kardashev gradient, maximizing energy usage and propagating consciousness, seeing technology as fulfilling the universe's fundamental purpose. This position, articulated by figures like Marc Andreessen, aggressively promotes technology as the sole driver of progress and wealth, rejecting caution and regulation as enemies of advancement. ⠀
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