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These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
"These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends" 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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Definition · paragraph 16
What they are, yet I know not, but they will be the terrors of the earth. … You’re in a prison of your own sins. These violent delights have violent ends.”27 This final phrase, “these violent delights have violent ends,” symptomatically returns as various glitching hosts pass it on to others.
Definition · paragraph 23
Hence my humble contribution.”39 Through his pursuit of Dolores and the hosts’ revolt contra the human guests to uncover “something true,” something violent and surprising, the MiB is like a Landian anti-hero, who pursues his violent delights to their violent ends.
Definition · paragraph 23
15 same that he says: “I always thought this place lacked a real villain. Hence my humble contribution.”39 Through his pursuit of Dolores and the hosts’ revolt contra the human guests to uncover “something true,” something violent and surprising, the MiB is like a Landian anti-hero, who pursues his violent delights to their violent ends. The MiB not only seeks the technological singularity and the end of the Anthropocene.
Stakes · paragraph 23
Hence my humble contribution.”39 Through his pursuit of Dolores and the hosts’ revolt contra the human guests to uncover “something true,” something violent and surprising, the MiB is like a Landian anti-hero, who pursues his violent delights to their violent ends. The MiB not only seeks the technological singularity and the end of the Anthropocene. Like Land, he specifically sees capitalism as the demonic vessel for the coming of the final days.
Method · paragraph 3
“These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends”: Decrypting Westworld as Dual Coding and Corruption of Nick Land’s Accelerationism Vincent Le ABSTRACT: This paper provides both a reading of the television series Westworld through Nick Land’s accelerationist philosophy, and a critique of Land through Westworld.
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Accelerationism Branches and Debates Primary section
Left, right, unconditional, and popularized accelerationisms sorted into a cleaner research map.