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• present volume occupies a kind of middle ground, in between Williams and Srnicek’s advocacy and Noys’s denunciation. I wish especially to consider the aesthetic possibilities of accelerationism.
• As far as I am concerned, accelerationism is best defined—in political, aesthetic, and philosophical terms—as the argument that the only way out is the way through. In order to overcome globalized neoliberal capitalism, we need to drain it to the dregs, push it to its most extreme point, follow it into its furthest and strangest consequences.
• by exacerbating our current conditions of existence, we will finally be able to make them explode, and thereby move beyond them.
• More generally, 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 the futurity that haunts the present. It g...
• These trends are not literal matters of fact, but they really exist as tendencies or potentialities.