Accelerationism
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Nov 6, 2026
Jay DyerHOST
We're going to keep having all the same problems.
Jay DyerHOST
I don't know how we solve that, but I think we saw with the blue wave, just another example of Accelerationism is here whether you want it or not.
Jay DyerHOST
I'm not advocating for accelerationism.
Jay DyerHOST
I'm saying that the mass mind has opted to essentially go with, let's just go full evil, and then that will lead to some form of collapse and correction and repentance.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
L-Ack, R-Ack, U-Ack.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
These are all sects of accelerationism, the philosophy of Nick Land.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
Accelerationism is basically the idea that the societal processes we're witnessing now, like capitalist growth and technological change, should be accelerated and intensified as much as possible to create radical social change, which might include a potential technological singularity.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
LAC refers to leftists who accept accelerationism, and RAC refers to people on the right who accept accelerationism.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
and UAC refers to unconditional accelerationism.
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Duncan ClarkeHOST
All matter is considered libidinally powered and productive.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
And this idea of materialism is very influenced by Gnosticism, and doesn't really have a strict definition or rationalization.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
Gender Accelerationism Gender Accelerationism, or GAC, is an ideology about accelerating gender to the point that there's no longer any internal logic to it.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
He's a French dude named Paul Virilio.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
Accelerationist.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
Yeah.
Baratunde ThurstonGUEST
So Paul, like he's a homie.
Monica PerezGUEST
So I'm crafting shows for him.
Monica PerezGUEST
So he likes the last one I did, which was Accelerationists versus Doomers.
Monica PerezGUEST
And it's about the AI battle.
Monica PerezGUEST
And so he liked that one.
Monica PerezGUEST
So I'm crafting shows for him.
Monica PerezGUEST
So he likes the last one I did, which was Accelerationists versus Doomers.
Monica PerezGUEST
And it's about the AI battle.
Monica PerezGUEST
And so he liked that one.
James BairdHOST
Yeah.
James BairdHOST
Accelerationism is for losers.
James BairdHOST
All right.
James BairdHOST
So the idea here is some people are proposing what we actually want to do is we want to vote for the least godly candidate, you know, the least conservative candidate, the most left wing candidate.
James BairdGUEST
Yeah.
James BairdGUEST
Accelerationism is for losers.
James BairdGUEST
All right.
James BairdGUEST
So the idea here is some people are proposing what we actually want to do is we want to vote for the least godly candidate, you know, the least conservative candidate, the most left wing candidate.
DavidHOST
What begins with human decisions may acquire a momentum that no single person can direct.
DavidHOST
This round of Land's thinking became associated with accelerationism.
DavidHOST
His more provocative suggestion was that technological capitalism might develop according to its own imperatives, reorganising human needs along the way.
DavidHOST
We usually ask whether technology is serving people.
CryptowiresHOST
Okay, he's like the Howard Stern of...
CryptowiresHOST
this neo reaction neo-reactionary movement whatever that is the two finally met in person in early 2026 the ark is unbroken the same drive to abolish the human subject that produced the brilliant early work also licensed the discarding of human equality he came to philosophy to think the inhuman cosmic heart and patel not ethics were the drawn where the draw his gift and his pathology were the same thing a refusal of limits intellectual and chemical Accelerationism was value-neutral in form, but nihilistic in content.
CryptowiresHOST
Ride the tiger, don't resist, which made it trivially convertible to a politics of collapse.
CryptowiresHOST
He is a genuine philosopher, not a crank, which is exactly why his drift to the anti-democratic right matters and why it has traction.
Wajahat AliHOST
Yeah, also, this is smart community.
Wajahat AliHOST
Accelerationism.
Wajahat AliHOST
That's exactly it.
Wajahat AliHOST
They are literally trying to cause the collapse of the post-World War II order.
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