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Accelerationism

Ideologies of change via capitalism and technology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 16, 2026
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Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the use of capitalism and associated processes to create radical social transformations. Broadly, accelerationism engages with antihumanism, as well as posthumanism, and seeks to accelerate desired tendencies within capitalism at the expense of negative ones, though variants differ greatly on which tendencies and if this will lead beyond capitalism or further into it.

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