Punta-tacco Notes on Brazilian accelerationism (petismo)

Abstract

This article wants to comprehend petism by way of accelerationism, investigating the manner in which the Worker’s Party can be understood as an accelerationist party. To do that, it makes a quick incursion over the magical and philosophical dimensions of accelerationism, seeking to highlight the manner in which both a certain ethics as a certain aesthetics of accelerationism would be given by way of what can be considered, at one hand, shamanism and, at the other, can be considered modernism. In that sense, it understands accelerationism as shamanism and considers both modernism. It makes use of this investigation to get closer to Brazil through two questions: Why is Mark Fisher more popular, from a publishing point of view, than Nick Land? and Why is accelerationism (so) popular in Brazil? — questions that are duly reviewed during the text. Once inside of the Brazilian conversation, the texts makes a brief accounting of the uspian critique’s diagnostic of Brazil, seeking in Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz and Paulo Arantes the properly Brazilian notion of its place in the world — or outside of the world or, even, as the text argues, modeling the world by way of a certain dialectics of trickery. It’s finalized visualizing the way in which PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores, “Worker’s Party”) joints all these loose ends and expresses crystal-clear the complicitary relationship between Brazil and acceleration.