OOO has no connection with accelerationism
June 26, 2020
Someone informed me that the @accelerbot account on Twitter says this at the top: “PLEASE GOOGLE OBJECT ORIENTED ONTOLOGY. THE THEORETICAL ARMATURE OF ACCELERATIONISM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT”
This is most likely stated in bad faith. But for the record, I have no interest in accelerationism as a political doctrine, and am comfortable saying that the same is true for others working in a OOO idiom. The right-wing strand of accelerationism is self-evidently appalling. The left-wing strand doesn’t interest me either, though I do think Nick Srnicek is a talented person with a promising career ahead. Maybe there will be a debate about this topic at some point in the future, but there’s too much other work on my desk at the moment.