Towards a future-oriented politcs: the philosophical and strategic provocation of “left-wing accelerationism"
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Within a context of profound changes in capitalism, especially caused by technological development, the “accelerationism” has emerged. In this article, we seek to make a genealogy of the so-called “leftist accelerationism”, finding its origins in a Marxist heresy originated in French post-structuralism in the 1970s, and developed in the Cyber ”‹”‹Culture Research Unit (CCRU) in the 1990s. In the context of the CCRU, Nick Land and Mark Fisher lay the groundwork for rightist and leftist accelerationism, respectively. In the field of the left, the philosophical provocations become increasingly political strategy, and Fisher's ideas are developed by other authors such as Srnicek and Williams, Aaron Bastani and Phillips and Rozworski. Thus, some classic left’s subjects, such as labor relations and economic planning gain new perspectives of debate. Having built this path, we ended up pointing out some limits of the left's accelerationism and, mainly, its biggest merit: that of recalling the urgency - which has for a long time been no longer obvious - of a future-oriented politics.
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