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Alexander Avila
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lol i need to stop having arguments with people on here
July 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
...it's about repurposing & socializing productive and technological infrastructure. Here's a good reference:

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don't advocate for "accelerating capitalism" and criticize this notion in the video when talking about Land. I think that there are certain institutions and logics that have developed under capitalism that can be reoriented away from profit. It's not about "doing more capitalism"...
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I think you have a misconception about left accelerationism and its history. And I’ve consistently criticized Big Tech, its fascist connections, and support legislation to decentralize and regulate it.
July 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The recent video I did has several engagements with left accelerationism and explains why I find value in the term. I'm not going to waste time rehasing that over Bluesky with a random person.
July 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I’m a left accelerationist in the same way Mark Fisher, Alex Williams, and Nick Srineck are left accelerationists.

hersephoria.com/files/books/...

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
hersephoria.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Accelerationism can be left or right wing, and its left wing variants predate Sillicon Valley’s fascist reappropriation of it by several decades. It was arguably originally a left wing philosophy if you trace its heritage back to deleuzoguatarrianism.

hersephoria.com/files/books/...
hersephoria.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I criticized Nick Land and techno fascism extensively in my recent video. This town hall is mostly focused on the left wing accelerationism of Mark Fisher, who was inspired by Land’s early leftist work before his right wing turn.
July 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Town Halls are one of the ways I fund my channel so my main content can remain free :)
July 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
During this Town Hall, we'll discuss why the left has turned against technology, the dangers of uncritically reifying the past, nostalgia as a symptom of social failure, what role accelerationism plays in left wing philosophy, and what a genuinely radical technological/social future could look like.
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
People think that accelerationism is about letting everything get really bad until things get so bad that suddenly the Revolution™ happens. That's not what it is. It is a philosophy about reclaiming technological and social development and repurposing it toward radical ends.
July 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Thanks for making me aware of his shitty views! Foucault had shitty views, Marx had shitty views. I cite them, too. I’ll stay clear of Alexander, but I don’t think that takes away from the point made in that section and I still don’t support fascism or Nazism.
May 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay? Out of 300 citations in this entire project I may inadvertently cite research with authors I otherwise denounce because I cannot vet every single thing every author has ever said. There is another peer-reviewed source in that same section that supports the claim in that footnote. [108-2]
May 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
For the record, I someone should **** ***
May 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
to making a video in which one of the main points is that the anti-AI backlash has been co-opted by right-wing lobbying groups.
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You characterized the initial retweet as me believe that people dislike my video because I criticized tech bros:

"do you REALLY believe people are criticizing you for standing up AGAINST tech bros?"

No, I don't. The tweet I retweeted is a humorous take on the reaction I got in response
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As I say in part 1 of the video, you don’t have to be a copyright abolitionist to agree with these criticisms of the current legal strategy.
May 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM