accelerationist

From acceleration +‎ -ist.

accelerationist (plural accelerationists)

1. A proponent of accelerationism.

   Antonym: decelerationist

   • 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2025:

     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.

• effective accelerationist

accelerationist (comparative more accelerationist, superlative most accelerationist)

1. Relating to accelerationism.

   accelerationist politics

   • 2022 August 11, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Stop Putting Lasers in Joe Biden’s Eyes”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 August 2022:

     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.