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of the piece that you're about to listen to. The pieces of accelerationism. Accelerationism is a

kind of mysterious term which floats around on the internet which is floated around also in

kind of fashionable magazines for 20 or 30 years. I first came across it as an idea in the 90s

when it was something that was often mentioned by people who were making drama based records for

very small labels in England. What accelerationism is a set of ideas and a set of people about

making modern life faster and faster about accepting the speed of modern life, whether it's

the tempo of dance records, whether it's the speed of which capitalism operates

and accepting that speed and hastening it to try and make a breakthrough, almost to a better

level of kind of consciousness. Accelerationism has had two strands. It's had a kind of right wing

strand which celebrates capitalism and there's a left wing strand which sees technology as a way

to kind of subvert capitalism. Accelerationism has fed people on the far right, like the philosopher

Nick Land and also people on the left like the late Mark Fisher who took his own life a few years

ago, who's one of the most influential thinkers on the left in Britain of the last 20 or 30 years.

And what I discovered when I looked at the story of this idea and the people who spread it

is as much as anything it's about how ideas can come to kind of possess people and how they can

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