Max Castle

Are you suggesting that the “r” in r/acc constitutes such an ideological break?

That should read 'brakes'.

Ah, yes, okay. Although curiously, I think both make sense. And I suspect Land would rather see r/acc as a “break” with the ideological inhibition of capital, ie. all forms of central planning and compensation. "The Right is … fragmentation, experimentation and … competition".

But then what's left to distinguish u/acc and r/acc? I can't help but think that u/acc's individuation presupposes either: (1) the threading together of r/acc and NRx, (2) accepting a theoretical, diagnostic capacity, or (3) ascribing metaphysical necessity to the process.

I would say that u/acc is an attempt to theorize capital. It makes certain claims about what is possible and what not is possible within Capital. It is not a metaphysics necessity but an attempt to think capital in itself.

So it remains a possibility that capitalism could be derailed, but it cannot be permanently channeled for any activity that runs counter to it's logic. This is why, in my more uncharitable moments, I assert that there is no real difference between r & l acc.

They both assert a more fundamental level where one could stand and direct the malstrom for some 'higher' purpose. I don't think there is much evidence that this is possible (or should even be desired).

The notion of escape velocity arguably presupposes a point prior to which the whole thing is still vulnerable to terrestrial forces... R/acc takes this threat seriously and refuses to just handwave it away. It's not about harnessing /acc to bring back the Renaissance or Rome.