*** Abstract

*** Strange Dialectics

**** 1. Accelerationism has kept the peculiar company of sadists, fascists, technocrats, and utopians

**** 2. The most fundamental distinction between all accelerationists is their relationship to the dialectic

**** 3. Each accelerationist image can be criticised according to its bad side: the boomerang tends toward recuperation, the chase of the high eventually leads to lower lows, and careful selection as technocratic anti-communism

*** The New Accelerationists

**** 1. The new accelerationists state that the problems of this world are due to a failure to embrace Prometheanism

**** 2. Many accelerationists see technology as the new subject of history, over which, they seek to gain mastery

**** 3. It is unclear what accelerationists would dislike about capitalism if it did not impede the development of the science and technology they desire

**** 4. If “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”, then the only catastrophe left is political and not scientific or technological.

*** An Alternative Acceleration

**** 1. Accelerationists claim that speed can be confused with acceleration. But there is no accelerationism worth its name without speed

**** 2. The alternative is to accelerate the process of breaking through politics itself

**** 3. The subject of such an alternative politics is the partisan war machine

**** 4. If we are to believe that acceleration and speed are to be distinguished, then it is on the basis of the distinction between tools and weapons