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Crash and Burn Debating Accelerationism - 3 AM Magazine
"Crash and Burn Debating Accelerationism - 3 AM Magazine" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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These pages matter because accelerationism is the archive's most overused public keyword. The site needs a cluster that distinguishes history, primer, and public explanation from the doctrine-like certainty that later reception often projects onto the term.
Primers and histories do the work by sorting competing branches, periodizations, and origin stories. They organize a noisy field into public maps that can be argued over, revised, or contested.
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Definition · paragraph 12
In terms of accelerationism I think culture is a central element, which can’t simply be wished away. I often say I think we should have all debates about accelerationism in terms of dance music, and this isn’t a (probably bad) joke.
Definition · paragraph 12
Critique, I hope, can attend better to the constant processes of transformation of the material to the abstract and vice versa. In terms of accelerationism I think culture is a central element, which can’t simply be wished away. I often say I think we should have all debates about accelerationism in terms of dance music, and this isn’t a (probably bad) joke.
Definition · paragraph 1
Crash and Burn: Debating Accelerationism Alexander Galloway in conversation with Benjamin Noys. (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am//crash-and-burn-debating- accelerationism/malign-velocities-cover-3/) Cover image of Malign Velocities, courtesy of Dean Kenning
Mechanism · paragraph 3
His recent interest in neo-reactionary thought (http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the- dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/) makes this fascination problematic, to put it mildly. (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am//crash-and-burn-debating- accelerationism/roger_zelazny_lord_of_light_panther/)
Stakes · paragraph 9
While I would say there is no simple “outside” to capitalism, I don’t think this is a counsel of despair because I’d attend to the contradictions and struggle that always and everywhere exist within this social relation. (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am//crash-and-burn-debating- accelerationism/brain_slug_party/) AG: Let’s talk in particular about abstraction.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.