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aesthetic accelerationism

Aesthetic accelerationism, unlike the politico-economic kind, does not claim any efficiency for its own operations. It revels in depicting situations where the worst depredations of capitalism have come to pass, and where people are not only unable to change things but are even unable to imagine tr…

—p.39 No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism Acceleration Aesthetics (25) by Steven Shaviro
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Hayek's idealization of the market

But Hayek's market utopia does not take Keynesian uncertainty into account. Since we cannot quantify the future in probabilistic terms, it cannot be captured in terms of the "information" provided by the price system. Despite its supposedly self-correcting mechanisms, the "market" is as subject to …

—p.19 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro
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neoliberalism has robbed us of the future

What lurks behind this analysis is the frustrating sense of an impasse. Among its other accomplishments, neoliberal capitalism has also robbed us of the future. For it turns everything into an eternal present. The highest values of our society--as preached in the business schools--are novelty, inno…

—p.10 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro
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defining neoliberalism

[...] I define neoliberalism as a specific mode of capitalist production (Marx), and form of governmentality (Foucault), that is characterized by the following specific factors:

  1. The dominating influence of financial institutions, which facilitate transfers of wealth from everybody else to the…
—p.7 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro
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science fiction is about futurity project/high-castle

[...] science fiction as a genre does not claim to actually predict the future. Rather, it works to extrapolate elements of the present, to consider what these elements might lead to if allowed to reach their full potential. That is to say, science fiction is not about the actual future but about…

—p.2 Introduction to Accelerationism (1) by Steven Shaviro