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7 years, 8 months ago

capitalism is a system that holds back progress

We need to revive the argument that was traditionally made for post-capitalism: not only is capitalism an unjust and perverted system, but it is also a system that holds back progress. Our technological development is being suppressed by capitalism, as much as it has been unleashed. Accelerationism…

—p.361 #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (347) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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technology and the social

We want to accelerate the process of technological evolution. But what we are arguing for is not techno-utopianism. Never believe that technology will be sufficient to save us. Necessary, yes, but never sufficient without socio-political action. Technology and the social are intimately bound up wit…

—p.356 Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (347) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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fiat

We cannot return to mass industrial-Fordits labour by fiat, if at all.

—p.350 Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (347) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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accelerationism as an anti-capitalist strategy inspo/anti-capitalism

[...] The abstract processes of decoding that capitalism sets off must be contained by improvised archaisms. lest capitalism cease being capitalism. Similarly, markets may or may not be the self-organising meshworks described by Fernand Braudel and Manuel DeLanda, but what is certain is that capita…

—p.345 Terminator vs Avatar (335) by Mark Fisher