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My first ask would be just some help cutting through the jargon. I can guess from the wikipedia article, and general political context, that the "L/" and "R/" s

by chao- 7y ago

My first ask would be just some help cutting through the jargon. I can guess from the wikipedia article, and general political context, that the "L/" and "R/" stands for "Left" and "Right", not "Liberal", "Reform", "Restrained", or similar. But then what is "U/"? Utopian? Utilitarian? Unrestrained? Similar with "NRX", which I cannot even begin to guess at.

emmelaich 7y ago
From the linked Nick Land article, NRx seems to be neoreactionary. Seems many movements fall in love with their own jargon and spend time attempting to distinguish themselves from other movements but only end up sounding even more obfuscatory.
- dropit_sphere 7y ago
  Obfuscation serves as a surprisingly effective spam filter though....
tryitnow 7y ago
My guess would be unconditional.
chobeat 7y ago
U is unconditional, yes. It's not clear to me what they are or want exactly.
CrackerNews 7y ago
(Cross post from another comment elsewhere) I'm not the best at understanding or explaining accelerationism, but I'll give it a shot. Accelerationism is that the current neoliberalism order will "naturally" progress to a next phase of society. I gather that left-accelerationists (L/acc) usually subscribe to the labor theory of value, and so automation's decrease of labor value to 0 will result in a collapse of capitalism that derives value of goods and services from the labor needed to produce them. Right-accelerationism (R/acc) seeks to embrace the disruption of technology to a logical extreme for technologial progress. Neo-Reaction (NRx) wants to revert back to pre-democratic ideals as they see democracy as being incompatible with their techno-libertarian ideals. I haven't heard of xenoaccelerationism (X/acc?) before but upon a cursory glance, it seems similar in that it embraces the disruption of culture and identity politics by technology's increasing encroachment and control on nature. It sounds like an overlap with transhumanism, but I am probably uninformed about the finer details.
- remarkEon 7y ago
  Are NRx people libertarians though? That seems somewhat opposed to the fetishism of Monarchy.
jowday 7y ago
Unconditional. Quoting from rational wiki: "U/Acc claims that there is no action that can lead to acceleration or deacceleration, and that "To the question ‘What is to be done?’, then, she can legitimately answer only, 'Do what thou wilt'". This however does not mean "do nothing", it rather means that "the unconditional accelerationist, more than anyone else, is free at heart to pursue what she thinks is good and right and interesting—but with the ironical realisation that the primary ends that are served are not her own."

by chao- 7y ago

emmelaich 7y ago

From the linked Nick Land article, NRx seems to be neoreactionary. Seems many movements fall in love with their own jargon and spend time attempting to distinguish themselves from other movements but only end up sounding even more obfuscatory.

dropit_sphere 7y ago
Obfuscation serves as a surprisingly effective spam filter though....

tryitnow 7y ago

My guess would be unconditional.

chobeat 7y ago

U is unconditional, yes. It's not clear to me what they are or want exactly.

CrackerNews 7y ago

(Cross post from another comment elsewhere) I'm not the best at understanding or explaining accelerationism, but I'll give it a shot. Accelerationism is that the current neoliberalism order will "naturally" progress to a next phase of society. I gather that left-accelerationists (L/acc) usually subscribe to the labor theory of value, and so automation's decrease of labor value to 0 will result in a collapse of capitalism that derives value of goods and services from the labor needed to produce them. Right-accelerationism (R/acc) seeks to embrace the disruption of technology to a logical extreme for technologial progress. Neo-Reaction (NRx) wants to revert back to pre-democratic ideals as they see democracy as being incompatible with their techno-libertarian ideals. I haven't heard of xenoaccelerationism (X/acc?) before but upon a cursory glance, it seems similar in that it embraces the disruption of culture and identity politics by technology's increasing encroachment and control on nature. It sounds like an overlap with transhumanism, but I am probably uninformed about the finer details.

remarkEon 7y ago
Are NRx people libertarians though? That seems somewhat opposed to the fetishism of Monarchy.

jowday 7y ago

Unconditional. Quoting from rational wiki: "U/Acc claims that there is no action that can lead to acceleration or deacceleration, and that "To the question ‘What is to be done?’, then, she can legitimately answer only, 'Do what thou wilt'". This however does not mean "do nothing", it rather means that "the unconditional accelerationist, more than anyone else, is free at heart to pursue what she thinks is good and right and interesting—but with the ironical realisation that the primary ends that are served are not her own."