A political compass for weird theory Twitter (Updated):
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Original version by @thewastedworld and explanation for my changes in next tweet (1/3)
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Edge Empress Retweeted Gregory Marks
The original version is this one: https://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1033589749406003200 … Meaning of the icons stays the same explained here: https://twitter.com/thewastedworld/status/1033589758302216192 … Explanation of change in next tweet (2/3)
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@thewastedworld version left accelerationism is more upwing than Cyberpunk urbanism and I don't agree with that left accelerationism is decidedly anti-capitalist and without capitalism or modernity as accelerator I don't see it as more upwing than cyberpunk urbanism (3/4)2 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
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@jmrphy's interview with@Outsideness: "I think that it's on that dimension that so-called left-accelerationism is left, I mean, it's left because it is basically in a position of deep skepticism about the capitalist process. It's accelerationist only (1/3)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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insofar as it thinks there is some other - I would say magical - source of acceleration that is going to be located somewhere outside that basic motor of modernity. They gesture towards the fact that things will somehow still be accelerating when you just chuck the (2/3)
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actual motor of acceleration in the scrap. And I think that is the left." (3/3)
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If human desire was the horizon of capitalism this MIGHT be true.
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... But in reality, of course, capital accumulation is itself a synthetic libidinal structure, without determinable limit.
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