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I think it’s fair to declare left accelerationism a failed project and pure wishful thinking. Only the og Nick Land right accelerationism is coherent, and Yuk Hui called it… it’s coherent mainly as an unhappy consciousness. And that’s now endemic in SV.
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This 2017 guardian long read remains the best general outsider introduction to this current of thought. Feels like this thing peaked in 2017 in the exhilaration of Trump’s ascent, and it’s been a steady descent into growing unhappiness since for believers
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This stuff has been growing so dominant in my social graph neighborhood, I suspect that the only thing that kept me basically immune is that I’m fundamentally not a westerner in some essential way. There’s Asian echoes of this but it’s basically a western end-of-history malaise.
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I’d even say it’s a malaise that’s specific to Christian heritage cf Holland’s Dominion hypothesis, which feels like the Christian-west strand of the end-of-history story.
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Hmm. Did a second close read of piece today and it strikes me as actually a sort of delayed-schedule alt-end-of-history thesis. Still in a Hegelian spirit but not the Fukuyama version.
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that was the first of a series i published since 2017, you can find the other 4 or 5 also in e-flux. you will find an elaboration of a not-end-of-history thesis in an article titled "what begins after the end of the enlightenment?"
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