"Acceleration" Zine - Edition #3
What is Accelerationism, and how does this fringe social and political philosophy play a role in the modern artists' life?
From the Introduction:
"Accelerationism is the idea that neoliberal capitalism can and should be pushed to its collapse through various means and ends.
Italian Futurists were ambitious artists who sought a modern future by disrupting tradition; Afrofuturists reimagine a future by exploring past and present conditions of alienation and scarcity. Neo-nazis share extremist literature to social outcasts, some even relocated to the American Northwest to build an ethnostate; French anarchists and communists allegedly sabotaged power lines to disrupt daily operations while building critical infrastructures to help neighbors.
While the aformentioned operate from drastically different perspectives and frameworks, everyone had one goal in mind: agitate. Struggle is a necessary component to political engagement and the search for something more. For artists to critically engage with social, cultural, political, and economic matters, they must actively accumulate and redistribute that information to as many people as possible. Work must transition from a reactionary mindset to a grounded and revolutionary position.
Appropriate the materials from the ruins to build a temple for all."
Published by Tyler Keylon, 2024.
Third Edition.
Cover printed on orange 70lb card stock, book block printed on white 50lb smooth text. 24 pages, black and white, est. 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
What is Accelerationism, and how does this fringe social and political philosophy play a role in the modern artists' life?
From the Introduction:
"Accelerationism is the idea that neoliberal capitalism can and should be pushed to its collapse through various means and ends.
Italian Futurists were ambitious artists who sought a modern future by disrupting tradition; Afrofuturists reimagine a future by exploring past and present conditions of alienation and scarcity. Neo-nazis share extremist literature to social outcasts, some even relocated to the American Northwest to build an ethnostate; French anarchists and communists allegedly sabotaged power lines to disrupt daily operations while building critical infrastructures to help neighbors.
While the aformentioned operate from drastically different perspectives and frameworks, everyone had one goal in mind: agitate. Struggle is a necessary component to political engagement and the search for something more. For artists to critically engage with social, cultural, political, and economic matters, they must actively accumulate and redistribute that information to as many people as possible. Work must transition from a reactionary mindset to a grounded and revolutionary position.
Appropriate the materials from the ruins to build a temple for all."
Published by Tyler Keylon, 2024.
Third Edition.
Cover printed on orange 70lb card stock, book block printed on white 50lb smooth text. 24 pages, black and white, est. 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
What is Accelerationism, and how does this fringe social and political philosophy play a role in the modern artists' life?
From the Introduction:
"Accelerationism is the idea that neoliberal capitalism can and should be pushed to its collapse through various means and ends.
Italian Futurists were ambitious artists who sought a modern future by disrupting tradition; Afrofuturists reimagine a future by exploring past and present conditions of alienation and scarcity. Neo-nazis share extremist literature to social outcasts, some even relocated to the American Northwest to build an ethnostate; French anarchists and communists allegedly sabotaged power lines to disrupt daily operations while building critical infrastructures to help neighbors.
While the aformentioned operate from drastically different perspectives and frameworks, everyone had one goal in mind: agitate. Struggle is a necessary component to political engagement and the search for something more. For artists to critically engage with social, cultural, political, and economic matters, they must actively accumulate and redistribute that information to as many people as possible. Work must transition from a reactionary mindset to a grounded and revolutionary position.
Appropriate the materials from the ruins to build a temple for all."
Published by Tyler Keylon, 2024.
Third Edition.
Cover printed on orange 70lb card stock, book block printed on white 50lb smooth text. 24 pages, black and white, est. 5.5 x 8.5 inches.