When a movement tries to claim an overly broad label for a very narrow position (like "accelerationism", "design thinking", ) it will inevitably get overloaded to cover its full scope. To attempt to restrict it to a narrow scope is a kind of semantic land grab.
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Take "accelerationism" for example. Only Very Online Nerds people take the provenance of the term with Nick Land etc seriously. Nobody else gives a shit. It seems to adequately cover a swathe of positions ranging from Toffler to white nationalism to SV tech-progressivism.
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If you oppose a narrow claim to a broad label, tactically, the dumbest thing you can do is to actually accept that association. The smartest thing you can do is to let natural process of dilution, contamination and overloading expand the term to cover the full range it wants to
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My reaction to the narrow flavors (both left/right) of Accelerationism™ was "the part that is good is not new, the part that is new is not good." It's not a label I'd either accept or reject, since it is vacuous used broadly, and derpily restrictive used narrowly.
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If you actually want to bell an ideological cat, relabel it to point to people. Labels like Landism, Moldbugism, Srnicekism, Zizekism, and Bannonism are at the right level of both resolution and acknowledgement of ideological agency. Accepting a big/broad label is... silly.
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All such ideologies, when it comes down to it, are the work of 1-2 fevered imaginations working long hours for several years in the grips of some sort of highly personal axe-grinding motive, who attract a few (<15) close acolytes, constructing grand narratives to ensnare minds.
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You're entirely welcome to buy into any of these narrow cottage industry offerings, but don't pretend you're doing some sort of deep critical thinking and reasoned adoption of a big, deep intellectual movement when all you're doing is learning a few slogans and shibboleths
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Most people who claim to be "accelerationist" or whatever just learned a few sophomoric secret handshakes by spending a few weekends reading a few tens of thousands of words. Not exactly what I'd call a lived, embodied, hard-earned praxis.
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Get over yourself. You didn't go on a Journey of Self Discovery and experience some deep enlightenment. Most likely you had your normal share of personal life problems and latched on to a convenient memeplex and community, and learned enough of the memes to make a few friends.
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It has taken me far too long to notice that the correct term for "people in the loose Ribbonfarm-adjacent empirical cluster in person-space" is "Raoists".
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hehe that term was IPOed years ago, but fortunately never caught on. My shit just doesn't hang together hedgehoggily enough. Nobody has any idea what it means to be a Raoist, least of all me.
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Replying to @vgr @rob_knight
Ah, but that's where the real fun of cultism is: the deep illegibility of everything, save the leader's Infallible Truth.pic.twitter.com/bFtJiWW4dN
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