/lit/ - Literature

>>14003034
An actual decent post.

To my mind G/ACC has a slightly different flavor to it than U/ACC or Landian accelerationism, and it's a little unclear how much of it was initially intended to be just memes and how much it was meant as a serious endeavor, but regardless of that it seems to share enough of the similarities with the rest of what gets called accelerationism to fall under the same canon, I think. Technology and capital stripping away traditional facets of the human condition (gender as role, bacterial sex necessary for creating new humans, etc.) in order to make something that is both more reliant on these larger systems of technocapital and simultaneously encourages further technological development unto the human as subject seems to fit the sort of circuitry model that most acceleration theories seem to work within.

I tend to think G/ACC gets more attention than other forms of /ACC because, for one, the existence of trans people seems to have become a persistent media sensation piece (at least in the west) ever since Jenner came out like 5 years ago and people still haven't gotten over it, and two, because it hits at something immediately personal to each reader. Oddly enough, it seems easier for us now to imagine a nearly or entirely autonomous workforce (i.e. the Marxist revolution of the working class in that there is no longer a proper working class to speak of, only or mostly machines - a sort of technocapital abortion conducted upon the traditional Marxist revolutionary theory) than to imagine that what workers/bourgeoisie/other remain might hold a less rigid concept of what gender and the role of the biological human subject in an increasingly artificial world is. That traditional and contemporary human roles and conceptions could disappear entirely into the uncaring abyss of a future which no longer has need of them and indeed is more than prepared to capitalize on, squelch, reconfigure, and redeploy them in any number of ways is, I think, quite frightening to a lot of people - which is, I think, an exceptionally accelerationist trait for any theory-fiction to carry.