accelerationist

plural accelerationists

1. A proponent of accelerationism.

   So, should policy makers be pleased by current low levels of inflation — as the inflation targeters would suggest — or are the accelerationists right to be worried by the fact that wage growth may be rising?

   2015 November 7, Justin Wolfers, “Is the Economy Overheating? Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Say”, in New York Times

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   Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified – either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. […] Occasionally, accelerationists have held teaching posts at universities. […] “We all live in an operating system set up by the accelerating triad of war, capitalism and emergent AI,” says Steve Goodman, a British accelerationist who has even smuggled its self-consciously dramatic ideas into dance music, via an acclaimed record label, Hyperdub.

   2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025

   […]among all of Trump’s vulnerabilities — his naked corruption, his malice on immigration, his paltry legislative achievement and his siding so blithely with A.I. accelerationists against a large majority of the country — the Iran war stands out.

   2026 September 23, David Wallace-Wells, “The Mistake That May Finally Get the Republican Base to Ditch Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Antonyms: decelerationist

comparative more accelerationist · superlative most accelerationist

1. Relating to accelerationism.

   accelerationist politics

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   They describe the Base as an “accelerationist” organization, seeking to speed the collapse of the country and give rise to a state of its own in the Pacific Northwest by killing minorities, particularly African-Americans and Jews.

   2020 January 22, Neil MacFarquhar, Adam Goldman, “A New Face of White Supremacy: Plots Expose Danger of the ‘Base’”, in New York Times

   The aesthetics at play were a bit antidemocratic, accelerationist, what have you; and mainstream coverage of the trend from this past spring cited propaganda experts on its allegedly alarming implications.

   2022 August 11, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Stop Putting Lasers in Joe Biden’s Eyes”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2022

   He suspects that the plotters have fairly standard anti-elite views with antisemitic and accelerationist characteristics.

   2026 June 27, J. Oliver Conroy, “The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event”, in The Guardian, →ISSN