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COURSE POST 1

Accelerationism If the Future Truly is Here

Considering Steven Shaviro’s definition of Accellerationism being “a speculative movement that seeks to extrapolate the entire globalized neoliberal capitalist order,” in tandem with our discussion in class about the article by Tim Chatterton and Georgia Newmarch, “The Future is Already Here—It’s Just Not Very Evenly Distributed,” what can we speculate about our nation in comparison to both our global community and our historical context?

If the future truly is here, should we make more concerted efforts to distribute it more evenly? We discussed how the concentration of this new future naturally correlates with the concentration of wealth. Looking at this graphic and its source article from the New York Times, I would suggest that it may be time to step into the future and more fully through our exhausted capitalist structure.