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This is not rhetorical question: did accelerationism ever worked?

• aspenmayer 1y ago
  If only we could ask Baudrillard. Accelerationism is to a simulacrum as the thing being accelerated (society) is to the simulation thereof (our idea of society). Accererationism is what accelerationism does. It disrupts the status quo, for good/bad/otherwise, and largely independently of our personal stance on the goodness, badness, and/or desirability of said disruption. The current volatility in the market is one aspect of accelerationism, and it seems to be working, in that the markets are still open for trading; many are making out like bandits. Perhaps that volatility as a market opportunity is the point. Whether or not banditry is occurring is left as an exercise to the reader.