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Reflection
"Reflection" belongs to the public history line where accelerationism is sorted into usable branches, slogans, and retrospective explanations.
Archive condition
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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.
How to read this text
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.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
What prevents it from being just an epistemic form of accelerationism? The answer is affirmative ethics, and the political praxis is collec- tive counter-actualization of the virtual. The barrier against the negative, entropic frenzy of capitalist axiomatic is provided by the politics that ensue from the ethic of affirmation.
Stakes · paragraph 1
Braidotti defines “the critical posthumanities” as “a supra-disciplinary, rhizomic field of contemporary knowledge production that is contiguous with, but not iden- tical to, the epistemic accelerationism of cognitive capitalism” (“Theoretical Framework,” 22).
Stakes · paragraph 2
Here is Braidotti again: posthuman scholarship . . . is contiguous and resonates with bio- genetic and technologically-mediated advanced capitalism. What prevents it from being just an epistemic form of accelerationism?
Stakes · paragraph 2
Here is Braidotti again: posthuman scholarship . . . is contiguous and resonates with bio- genetic and technologically-mediated advanced capitalism. What prevents it from being just an epistemic form of accelerationism? The answer is affirmative ethics, and the political praxis is collec- tive counter-actualization of the virtual.
Stakes · paragraph 1
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190876371.003.0016 1 Rosi Braidotti, “A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities,” Theory, Culture & Society 36 (2019): 31–61, 5. Braidotti defines “the critical posthumanities” as “a supra-disciplinary, rhizomic field of contemporary knowledge production that is contiguous with, but not iden- tical to, the epistemic accelerationism of cognitive capitalism” (“Theoretical Framework,” 22).
Appears in sections
Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.