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Williams and Srnicek's manifesto of 2013 holds that technology should be accelerated, as a means of winning social conflicts, and distinguishes this from capitalist speed. Copy claim link
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Date 2013-05-14 · publication Records dated 2013 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The passage does not concern machine intelligence or the process that produces it; it concerns technology as a political instrument. Scope and limits The passage concerns technology in general and the manifesto's political programme; it does not mention machine intelligence.
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#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics ↗ Critical Legal Thinking (criticallegalthinking.com) · 2013-05-14
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Source excerpt “our position is that technology should be accelerated precisely because it is needed in order to win social conflicts” Location in source Section 03 (Manifest), paragraph 7
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Source details and check notes Authors Alex Williams; Nick Srnicek Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 1f5468e63107aa6c91b34ab97a10a5bd4b8c415aa54c9d4c0ac0be36a24a764a). Critical Legal Thinking web page dated 14 May 2013, as served on 2026-10-31. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics”, 2013-05-14. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 35) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics ↗ Critical Legal Thinking (criticallegalthinking.com) · 2013-05-14
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Source excerpt “However Landian neoliberalism confuses speed with acceleration.” Location in source Section 02 (Interregnum), paragraph 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Alex Williams; Nick Srnicek Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 1f5468e63107aa6c91b34ab97a10a5bd4b8c415aa54c9d4c0ac0be36a24a764a). Critical Legal Thinking web page dated 14 May 2013, as served on 2026-10-31. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics”, 2013-05-14. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (7 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 35) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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