Accelerationism

Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, referred to as "acceleration".^{[1][2][3][4][5]} It has been regarded as an ideological spectrum divided into mutually contradictory left-wing and right-wing variants, both of which support dramatic changes to capitalism and its structures as well as the conditions for a technological singularity, a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.^[6][7][8][9] It aims to analyze and subsequently promote the social, economic, cultural, and libidinal forces that constitute the process of acceleration.^[10][6]

Ideas such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of deterritorialization, Jean Baudrillard's proposals for "fatal strategies", and various ideas of Nick Land are crucial influences on accelerationism. Such ideas gave rise to the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a philosophy collective at the University of Warwick, in the 1990s, promoting the use of capitalism to dissolve existing social structures and reach a singularity. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the movement would gain a resurgence, producing numerous variants and interpretations as well as a few published works.

The term has also, in a manner strongly distinguished from original accelerationist theorists, been used by right-wing extremists such as neo-fascists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists and white supremacists to increasingly refer to an "acceleration" of racial conflict through assassinations, murders and terrorist attacks as a means to violently achieve a white ethnostate.^{[11][12][13][14]}