Really more of an e/acc manifesto.
Interesting to see a twitter thing slowly leak into the mainstream one step at a time.
Interesting to see a twitter thing slowly leak into the mainstream one step at a time.
Mostly an AI thing originally I think? (I'm addicted to the site, but don't follow the d list celeb drama lol.)
Stands for effective accelerationism, more or less what you read in this Manifesto (Marc Andresson said he identified it a while ago too so makes sense.)
[0] https://www.effectiveacceleration.org/posts/4LtypqdAmQ3AgKtJ...
Accelerationism is the belief that we should race towards catastrophe so that we can rebuild society in a better way.
E / Acc is a (sometimes ironic) amalgam of the two.
You won't be surprised to learn that not many in these groups have studied history.
#accelerate was a meme (which, mainly referred to a set of aesthetics) on Google circles around 2011
Since then, the meme evolved into a bit of a war between l/acc (the original sense of the term) and r/acc (Nick Land flavored).
e/acc is a play on this—but a decade removed, the original context has been mostly forgotten
To understand the original historical context, you can read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Accelerationist-Reader-Urb..., which traces it back to, among other things, an essay by Marx
1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accel...
[edit] ok, nuance, yes he advocated movements to replace capitalism with communism, but he’s not the one mainly associated with attempts to bring communism “too early” (too early by Marx’s reckoning of the timeline of capitalism, that is)