ACCELERATIONISM'S QUEER OCCULTURE: "or, thinking according to the alien ovum of nature". Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sheldon, Rebekah
• Is Part Of: Angelaki. Volume 24:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: occultural studies -- futurity -- queer theory -- politics -- aesthetics; Literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2019.1568739
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-725X

Abstract

Abstract: Accelerationism offers a uniquely robust theory of the future as a subject for political contestation. In this way, it is surprisingly close to the concerns of queer theory. Like queer theory in its engagement with temporality, acclerationism works to describe the causal relations between past, present, and future. However, where queer theory attributes agency to affect and aesthetics, accelerationists look to rational control. In this contribution, I demonstrate that accelerationist rationality undoes itself, involuting into a form of demonic possession that might also be the basis for a queer future-working.