Accelerationism

In political and social theory, accelerationism is the idea that either the prevailing system of Capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that have historically characterised it, should be expanded, repurposed, or accelerated in order to generate radical social change... Accelerationist theory has been divided into mutually contradictory Left-wing and Right-wing variants..."Left-accelerationism" attempts to press "the process of technological evolution" beyond the constrictive horizon of capitalism, for example by repurposing modern technology for socially beneficial and emancipatory ends; "right-accelerationism" supports the indefinite intensification of Capitalism itself, possibly in order to bring about a technological Singularity... Prominent theorists include right-accelerationist Nick Land. The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), an unofficial research unit at the University of Warwick from 1995–2003, of which Land was a member, is considered a key progenitor in both left- and right-accelerationist thought. Prominent contemporary left-accelerationists include Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of the "Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics"... Focusing on how information technology infrastructures undermine modern political geographies, and proposing an open-ended "design brief", Benjamin H. Bratton's book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty is associated with accelerationism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

What is accelerationism?

• As Steven Shaviro sums it up,“‘accelerationism’ is the idea that the only way out is through”.
• Some understand “accelerationism” as being the process by which capitalism is pushed to its worst excesses as soon as possible in order to provoke an anti-capitalist response. In this basic model, exposing the true evils of late capitalism will lead inevitably to revolt.
• accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology.

semi-joke: "e-acc" for effective accelerationism (play on effective altruism)