''Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique'' and Other Essays

In publishing “Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique” & Other Essays, we at Miskatonic Virtual University Press are taking the first step in our broader mission of publishing emerging voices in what can broadly be construed as ‘weird theory.’
While an intentionally vague term, the goal of MVU Press is, in our book series as well as our sister journal, Plutonics: A Journal of Non-Standard Theory, to seriously engage with thinkers and ideas that not only fall outside the mainstream, but whose thoughts, generally speaking, have no place within the Academy.
We find James’ work to not only be insightful but to also provide a unique view of accelerationism as an extension – and indeed, update – of Deleuze’s philosophy of time. It is our hope in publishing this book that we can ‘expand the conversation’ around accelerationism and encourage new theorizing. Logistically, James’ texts provided two different sets of editorial challenges. On the one hand, his thesis, “Accelerationism: Capitalism as Critique,” is
clearly written within an academic milieu and as such makes use of certain citational practices. On the other hand, James’ follow-up texts which appeared as blog posts do not make use of any citational practice save for hyperlinks. Thus, the majority of our editorial interventions into the texts that follow are, apart from efforts at proof-reading and structuring, attempts to standardize citational practices across the works.