“Platforms are the infrastructure of global society. They establish the basic parameters of what is possible, both behaviourally and ideologically. In this sense, they embody the material transcendental of society: they are what make possible particular sets of actions, relationships, and powers. While much of the current global platform is biased towards capitalist social relations,… Continue reading #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
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#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
“We believe that any post-capitalism will require post-capitalist planning. The faith placed in the idea that, after a revolution, the people will spontaneously constitute a novel socioeconomic system that isn’t simply a return to capitalism is naïve at best, and ignorant at worst. To further this, we must develop both a cognitive map of the… Continue reading #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
“We do not want to return to Fordism. There can be no return to Fordism. The capitalist “golden era” was premised on the production paradigm of the orderly factory environment, where (male) workers received security and a basic standard of living in return for a lifetime of stultifying boredom and social repression. Such a system… Continue reading #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
“We believe the most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must become called an accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology. The former remains content with establishing small and… Continue reading #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics