accelerationist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proponent of accelerationism.
adj
Example Sentences
- "So, should policy makers be pleased by current low levels of inflation — as the inflation targeters would suggest — or are the accelerationists right to be worried by the fact that wage growth may be rising?"
- "Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified – either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. […] Occasionally, accelerationists have held teaching posts at universities. […] “We all live in an operating system set up by the accelerating triad of war, capitalism and emergent AI,” says Steve Goodman, a British accelerationist who has even smuggled its self-consciously dramatic ideas into dance music, via an acclaimed record label, Hyperdub."
- "accelerationist politics"
- "They describe the Base as an “accelerationist” organization, seeking to speed the collapse of the country and give rise to a state of its own in the Pacific Northwest by killing minorities, particularly African-Americans and Jews."
- "The aesthetics at play were a bit antidemocratic, accelerationist, what have you; and mainstream coverage of the trend from this past spring cited propaganda experts on its allegedly alarming implications."
- "He suspects that the plotters have fairly standard anti-elite views with antisemitic and accelerationist characteristics."
Etymology
From acceleration + -ist.