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Thirty years of neoliberalism have rendered most left-leaning political parties bereft of radical thought, hollowed out, and without a popular mandate. At best they have responded to our present crises with calls for a return to a Keynesian economics, in spite of the evidence that the very conditions which enabled post-war social democracy to occur no longer exist. (Nick Srnicek and  Alex Williams)
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We may be moving fast, but only within a strictly defined set of capitalist parameters that themselves never waver. We experience only the increasing speed of a local horizon, a simple brain-dead onrush rather than an acceleration which is also navigational, an experimental process of discovery within a universal space of possibility. (Nick Srnicek and  Alex Williams)
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The properly accelerative gains of neoliberalism have not led to less work or less stress. And rather than a world of space travel, future shock, and revolutionary technological potential, we exist in a time where the only thing which develops is marginally better consumer gadgetry. (Nick Srnicek and  Alex Williams)
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The tools to be found in social network analysis, agent-based modelling, big-data analytics, and non-equilibrium economic models, are necessary cognitive mediators for understanding complex systems like the modern economy. The accelerationist left must become literate in these technical fields. (Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams)
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Politics must be treated as a set of dynamic systems, riven with conflict, adaptations and counter-adaptations, and strategic arms races. This means that each individual type of political action becomes blunted and ineffective over time as the other sides adapt. (Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams)
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The reciprocal implication of desire and capitalist development can be properly understood through the concept of schizo deterritorialization. But when it comes to the process of the recomposition of subjectivity and the formation of social solidarity, acceleration implies the submission of the Unconscious to the globalized machine. (Franco “Bifo� Berardi)
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If we investigate acceleration from the point of view of sensibility and the desiring body, we see that chaos is the painful perception of speed, and acceleration is the chaotic factor leading to the spasm that Guattari speaks about in Chaosmosis. (Franco “Bifo� Berardi)
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If progress—be it technological, social, or political—can only be thought via an acceleration that overcomes the reterritorializations operated by the Left and the Right, then the task (in the wake of Hegel) is an updated speculative “critique” of Kant’s still (i.e., in the fifth or eighth generation, depending on how you count, of the Frankfurt School) effective criticism of speculation. […] The project of an accelerationist (political) thought opposes technocratic muddling on in the service of the given by speculatively holding on to the absolute as concrete politics. […] Acceleration keeps capital moving and makes opposition to capital possible. (Armen Avanessian)
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Capitalist power, in the age of complexity, is not based on slow, rational, conscious decisions, but on embedded automatisms which do not move at the speed of the human brain. Rather, they move at the speed of the catastrophic process itself. (Franco “Bifo� Berardi)
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“And of course we suffer, we capitalised, but this does not mean that we do not enjoy, nor that what you think you can offer us as a remedy—for what?—does not disgust us, even more. We abhor therapeutics and its vaseline, we prefer to burst under the quantitative excesses that you judge the most stupid. And don’t wait for our spontaneity to rise up in revolt either.”
“The passion that accelerationism mobilises is the remembrance by the people that a future is possible. In disparate fields—from politics to art to design to biology to philosophy—people are working through how to create a world that is liberated from capitalist incentives.”