accelerationism
Hasten the collapse
Accelerationism is the political theory that social transformation—usually toward capitalism's collapse or radical change—can be hastened by intensifying the system's contradictions rather than resisting them.
The idea is that pushing harmful trends to their extreme will force a crisis and subsequent restructuring: Some accelerationists welcomed the financial crash as a step toward revolution.
The term spans left-wing and right-wing variants, though the right-wing version—seeking to hasten civilizational collapse through violence or chaos—has drawn particular concern.
Self-operating system design
- cyberneticsCommunication and control science
- singularityPoint where values explode
- roboticsAutomaton design field
- disruptionForceful interruption of process
blockchain · nanotechnology · biotech · posthumanism · transhumanism
- deterritorializationRemoval from native context
- dialecticsReasoning through contradiction
- praxisCustomary action or application
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
Violent governmental overthrow
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- radicalizationShift toward extreme ideology
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
anti-capitalism · militant · destabilization · subversion · intensification · crisis · catastrophism · abolition
Increase in degree
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- runawayOne who flees
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
overdrive · quickening · exponential · compounding · spiraling · cascading · turbulence
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- hypercapitalismEconomic system without restraint
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- privatizationState sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
globalization · financialization · disintermediation · precarity · exploitation
automation
Self-operating system design
- cyberneticsCommunication and control science
- singularityPoint where values explode
- roboticsAutomaton design field
disruption · blockchain · nanotechnology · biotech · posthumanism · transhumanism
Guattari
- deterritorializationRemoval from native context
- dialecticsReasoning through contradiction
- praxisCustomary action or application
revolution
Violent governmental overthrow
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- radicalizationShift toward extreme ideology
- anarchismPhilosophy rejecting state authority
Marxism · anti-capitalism · militant · destabilization · subversion · intensification · crisis · catastrophism · abolition
intensification
Increase in degree
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- runawayOne who flees
amplification · overdrive · quickening · exponential · compounding · spiraling · cascading · turbulence
neoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- hypercapitalismEconomic system without restraint
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- privatizationState sells public assets
deregulation · globalization · financialization · disintermediation · precarity · exploitation
- extremismextremism, extremists, fanaticism, radicalism, radicalization
- far rightfascism, neo-Nazism, neofascism, white supremacy, Nazism
- radical leftismMarxism, Leninism, Maoism, Trotskyism, Bolshevism
- Fringe Groupsmilitias, extremists, radicals, separatists, dissidents
- Fringe ideologiesanarchism, extremism, radicalism, fascism, neo-Nazism
- techno-utopianismsingularity, transhumanism, post-scarcity, technocracy, mind uploading
accelerationismgradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
incrementalism · reformism · evolutionism · evolutionary change
accelerationismreformism
Gradual political change doctrine
institutionalism · harm reduction · liberal democracy · social democracy · democratic socialism
accelerationismharm reduction
Minimizing adverse outcomes pragmatically
stabilization · amelioration · mitigation · damage control · crisis management
accelerate, acceleration, accelerated, accelerator, decelerate, accelerates, deceleration, decelerated, decelerator