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#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (#Urbanomic)
by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian
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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tern · 2023-10-16 · Original thread
The original accelerationist manifesto was written by people who did study history. You can find it here: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-mani...

#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