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No. 34-35 (2024): Pamięć i pragnienie

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Anti-Politics and the Outside – An Unconditionally Accelerationist Theory of Capitalism

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/CIV.2024.34-35.09
Submitted: September 30, 2025
Published: December 12, 2025

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the theoretical position advocated by Unconditional Accelerationism (U/Acc) as a proposal capable of creatively reconfiguring dominant perspectives on the relationship between human subjectivity and capitalism. Initially, I will focus on the concept of „deterritorialization,” which is central to accelerationism in general, and on the issue of its continuous acceleration. Next, I will address the tasks facing the left, namely: the problem of the capitalization of desires and the contemporary role of technology. Building on these, I will present the critique of classical political practices (such as strikes or demonstrations) and the dominant trajectories of leftist theories, as articulated by U/Acc theorists, who accuse them of having a reterritorializing character. In the subsequent section, I will discuss how this intellectual formation perceives the sphere of human agency, introducing the term „anti-praxis” and explaining the significance of the slogan „accelerate the process,” which point to a deinstitutionalized practice aimed at affective experimentation capable of transforming our subjectivities to bring us closer to the Outside (something radically different from what we know).

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