what Mark Fisher calls “capitalist realism”: the sad and cynical sense that “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

the problem with accelerationism as a political strategy has to do with the fact that—like it or not—we are all accelerationists now.

what Noys calls “an exotic variant of la politique du pire : if capitalism generates its own forces of dissolution then the necessity is to radicalise capitalism itself: the worse the better.” 15 By pushing capitalism’s own internal tensions (or what Marx called its “contradictions”) to extremes, accelerationism hopes to reach a point where... See more