Effective accelerationism ( e/acc ) is a 21st-century philosophical movement that advocates for an explicitly pro-technology stance.[2] Its proponents believe that unrestricted technological progress (especially driven by artificial intelligence) is a solution to universal human problems like poverty, war and climate change.[3] They see themselves... See more

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

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical SaaS,” “verifiable compute infrastructure,” “narrative-market fit” jumped from one tweet thread to demo days to term sheets to LinkedIn profiles, mutating as it spread. Words weren’t just signals,... See more