P/ACC

Same velocity, different direction.

AI is drawing the largest mobilisation of capital and resources in history. Behind it stands a philosophy bordering on theology, led by a class its followers call the priesthood, whose creed equates unconstrained technology with progress and freedom. That faith misunderstands the cybernetic tradition, where an ungoverned engine simply runs away, and misreads Nick Land, its high priest, who never promised the acceleration would serve us and wrote instead, with open fatalism, that “nothing human makes it out of the near-future.” Society is now asking what it is all for. This book offers a diagnosis of the error, a means of assessing its threshold and a prescription for an alternative pathway: Purposive Accelerationism, which keeps the speed and fits the governor, aligning the machine to human purpose.