The Speed of Crisis
Slow Violence, Accelerationism, and the Politics of the Emergency Brake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21745349 |
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| Authors | Ashley J Bohrer (0000-0001-7588-9033, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 113-128 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Philosophy Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1543-4044 • E-ISSN: 2153-9448 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/socphiltoday202262191 |
| OpenAlex | W4285211696 |
| Language | EN |
This paper traces the history of accelerationism as a political philosophy, from its inception at Warwick University to its deployment by avowed white supremacists. Probing its philosophical commitment to a both a deterministic philosophy of history and a sacrificial logic of politics, I argue that even the initial elaborations of (non-race-based) accelerationism contained the seed of its development into violent white supremacy. The conclusion assesses a politics of deceleration as a strategy for countering accelerationism, ultimately arguing for the superiority of a Benjaminian politics of the emergency brake
Brake · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Software deployment · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Automotive Engineering
| Highly cited | No |
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