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Effective Accelerationism & Transhumanism Movements
We are in the early days of the Digital Age, a time when digital technologies, especially ones that augment our cognitive abilities are changing our societies. As part of this shift, we are starting to see new sociocultural movements forming that are creating interesting ideas around humanity’s relationship with these technologies. Some in quite remarkable ways. One of the more interesting of these movements is Effective Accelerationism or e/acc as is often written which might also be defined as Posthumanism.
As a movement, e/acc is relatively new and has emerged mostly out of Silicon Valley, although it has members around the world. The e/acc movement has some shared interests with the Transhumanist (no, not transgender, two very different things) movement.
In this article, I explore what this movement is compared to Transhumanism and why it’s important to understand the e/acc movement and it’s ideas for humanity and technology.
The key difference between e/acc and Transhumanism is that e/acc is a bit less human centric. Transhumanists have a greater degree of human-centricism with regard to human agency, values and rights. The e/acc movement as little less so and that’s where the primary distinctions between the two rest. The e/acc movement essentially sees humanity in a state of entropy, that as a…
