Introduction: 'Accelerate the process.' The bad new ; The destructive element ; Heretics of Marx ; The road of excess -- War machines. Cruel razors of velocity ; In the lunapark ; Mechanical asceticism ; Unknown soldiers -- Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!: communist accelerationism. In the highest degree tragic ; Iron man ; Tempos decide everything ; Storming heaven -- Machine-being. Mystical machines ; Rocketman ; Sex-work-machine -- Cyberpunk phuturism. The thrill and threat of materialization ; Techno-phuturism ; Cybergothic remix ; Stasis today -- Apocalyptic acceleration. Immanent tendencies ; Deviations of the tendency ; Through a glass darkly -- Terminal acceleration. Wallowing in the mud ; Barbarism or barbarism? -- Emergency brake. Over the dead body of capitalism ; The slob ; Angelic locomotives ; Revolutions per minute -- Conclusion: The moving contradiction. A supposedly fun thing ; Impossible labor ; People are afraid to merge.