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James Ellis - Accelerationism; Capitalism as Critique & Other Essays
"James Ellis - Accelerationism; Capitalism as Critique & Other Essays" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
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Core idea
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.
That matters because later debates about accelerationism often begin by flattening distinct projects into one thing. This cluster keeps the section anchored in branch logic, genealogy, and disagreement rather than slogan inflation.
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Read first for what version of accelerationism the page is naming or periodizing before following its judgment about the movement.
Track how the page distinguishes origins, branches, or public uses. Those distinctions are usually more important than the headline verdict.
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Definition · paragraph 310
made by Accelerationism – remember Acceleration- ism is synonymous with Capitalismism – is a tem- poral movement, a movement in time, and as this movement is not simply in-keeping with the eternal Sisyphean drudgery of those other parallel atomic threads one can begin to analyse its – this new diag- onal line’s – end, for that which is changing the course of such eternal descending bliss must have way of conclusion or end.
Definition · paragraph 30
James Ellis holds an M.A. in Continental Philosophy and is an independent researcher of Accelerationism, the work of Nick Land, occultism and collapse theory. He hosts Hermitix Podcast.
Stakes · paragraph 11
Logistically, James’ texts provided two different sets of editorial challenges. On the one hand, his the- sis, “Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique,” is clearly written within an academic milieu and as such makes use of certain citational practices. On the other
Stakes · paragraph 26
Left-wing-accelerationists be- lieve that pushing capitalism to its limits will create the means for greater emancipation, Right-wing-Ac- celerationists (Or, Landian Accelerationists) wished to push capitalism to its limit as a way to cause an intelligence explosion (singularity), and all the other various strains of Accelerationism believed that by pushing capitalism to its limit various aims could be achieved, and yet not one of these strands ever stopped to question their inherent optimism.
Stakes · paragraph 5
Editors’ Introduction ............................................ i Author’s Introduction ......................................... iv Section One: Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique ................................................................
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.