Accelerationist politics and fiction narratives research

Accelerationist Fictions, a research project proposed by Geoff Boucher and Helen Young, has received funding from Deakin Motion Lab in August 2021.

This project looks at so-called “accelerationism,” a violent and extremist form of rightwing authoritarian politics that intends to accelerate the disintegration of society using terrorist actions, so as to make possible guerrilla insurgency, civil war and finally a neo-fascist dictatorship. Accelerationist politics is mainly presented to the public through literary fictions, because these can evade censorship and recruit members, so the project aims to grasp the narrative structures of accelerationist culture, in literature and games, and to clarify their relation to the recruitment strategies and political project of the radical Right.