#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (#Urbanomic)
Description: #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader compiles texts that examine the philosophical and political current of accelerationism, focusing on the idea that radical responses to capitalism involve intensifying its processes rather than opposing them directly
ISBN: 0957529554
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#accelerate was a meme (which, mainly referred to a set of aesthetics) on Google circles around 2011
Since then, the meme evolved into a bit of a war between l/acc (the original sense of the term) and r/acc (Nick Land flavored).
e/acc is a play on this—but a decade removed, the original context has been mostly forgotten
To understand the original historical context, you can read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Accelerationist-Reader-Urb..., which traces it back to, among other things, an essay by Marx