Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Preface x
Introduction: 'Accelerate the Process' 1
The Bad New
The Destructive Element 5
Heretics of Marx 8
The Road of Excess 10
1 War Machines 13
Cruel Razors of Velocity 14
In the Lunapark 17
Mechanical Asceticism 19
Unknown Soldiers 22
2 Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!: Communist Accelerationism 24
In the Highest Degree Tragic 25
Iron Man 28
Tempos Decide Everything 31
Storming Heaven 33
3 Machine-Being 36
Mystical Machines 37
Rocketman 41
Sex-Work-Machine 46
4 Cyberpunk Phuturism 49
The Thrill and Threat of Materialization 51
Techno-Phuturism 52
Cybergothic Remix 54
Stasis Today 59
5 Apocalyptic Acceleration 63
Immanent Tendencies 64
Deviations of the Tendency 68
Through a Glass Darkly 70
6 Terminal Acceleration 73
Wallowing in the Mud 74
Barbarism or Barbarism? 77
7 Emergency Brake 83
Over the Dead Body of Capitalism 84
The Slob 86
Angelic Locomotives 88
Revolutions per Minute 90
Conclusion: The Moving Contradiction 93
A Supposedly Fun Thing 94
Impossible Labor 97
People are Afraid to Merge 100
Notes 105