accelerationism

Noun

countable uncountable

The idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded and accelerated in order to generate radical social change.

Japanese Meaning

既存の資本主義体制や、それを特徴づけた技術・社会的プロセスを、現状維持するのではなく、むしろその拡大や加速を通じて、抜本的な社会変革を促そうとする思想

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At the summit, proponents of accelerationism argued that speeding up capitalist and technosocial processes could catalyze radical social transformation, while opponents feared it would only worsen inequality.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

シンポジウムでは、資本主義やそれを特徴づける技術社会的プロセスを拡大・加速するという考えの支持者たちが、それを加速することで急進的な社会変革を引き起こせると主張したが、反対派はそれが格差を悪化させるだけだと懸念した。

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Land (2011) has brought forward the notion of accelerationism: Rather than halting the onslaught of capital (such as by defending a welfare state or defending the right to work), accelerationism is a philosophical and political strategy that strives to exacerbate its processes to bring forth its inner contradictions and thereby hasten its destruction, […]

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(economics) The theory that excessively low unemployment accelerates inflation.

Accelerationism was the most fundamental transformation of the Phillips approach into an expectational format. It hypothesized that inflation will become increasingly rapid in any maintained situation in which unemployment lies below some critical, or “natural,” rate.

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