From oppressive to emancipating subjectivation: a possible relationship between left-wing accelerationism and late Guattari

Abstract

Based on a historical-conceptual overview of accelerationism, especially in its leftist strands, this paper proposes a reading that relates it to the late thought of Félix Guattari, whose focus falls on three interdependent dimensions: ecology, subjectivity, and socio-productive relations. It is argued that technology, far from being a neutral instrument, constitutes a fundamental vector in the processes of subjectivation, capable of operating both as a device of control and alienation and as a tool for existential reappropriation and self-valorization, as Guattari suggests. By recovering schizoanalysis and the notion of collective assemblages of enunciation, it is argued that it is possible to think of technology as an ally to emancipatory modes of subjectivation, and not solely as an oppressive one.