Accelerationism's Queer Occulture
Or, Thinking According to the Alien Ovum of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebekah Sheldon (Indiana University, Lindley Hall 215, 150 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-129 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2019.1568739 |
| OpenAlex | W2913896498 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Accelerationism offers a uniquely robust theory of the future as a subject for political contestation. In this way, it is surprisingly close to the concerns of queer theory. Like queer theory in its engagement with temporality, acclerationism works to describe the causal relations between past, present, and future. However, where queer theory attributes agency to affect and aesthetics, accelerationists look to rational control. In this contribution, I demonstrate that accelerationist rationality undoes itself, involuting into a form of demonic possession that might also be the basis for a queer future-working
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Queer · Queer theory · Rationality · Sociology · Subject (documents · Temporality · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |