Max Castle

'Accelerationist Revisionism': In any given historical event, ignore the obvious causes (human desires, tribal antagonism, etc) and instead look for an 'accelerationist cause', much like Aristotle's Final Cause, the teleological pull from the future on the past.

For instance, the abolition of slavery in America. Instead of the typical narrative of a human struggle for freedom, look at industrialization allows machine labor to replace slave labor.

Pyramids. Instead of being superstitious towers to heaven, they are some of the earliest projects requiring massive organization, mathematics, division of labor, resource planning. (and in a perverse accelerationist sense of history, they actually are towers to 'Heaven').

Lewis Mumford officially inaugurated into the Acc canon

I'm not familiar with him?

He had several interesting theories that revolved around this particular theme. One concerns the 'megamachine', which is *precisely* what you hone in on here, and he situated it as beginning in the Pyramid Age