MACKAY, Robin; AVANESSIAN, Armen
#Accelerate.The Accelerationist Reader

Accelerationism is the name of a political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not protest, disrupt, or critique, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.

At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around the disputed term, galvanized by the poverty of 'reasonable' political alternatives. #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and capital.

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Edited by Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian. Includes texts by Karl Marx, Samuel Butler, Nicolai Fedorov, Thorstein Veblen, Shulamith Firestone, Jacques Camatte, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Lipovetsky, J.G. Ballard, Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Ian Hamilton Grant, CCRU, Mark Fisher, Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek, Antonio Negri, Tiziana Terranova, Luciana Parisi, Reza Negarestani, Ray Brassier, Benedict Singleton, Patricia Reed and Diann Bauer

Published by Urbanomic / Merve Verlag
Essays / Politics / Cultural Studies