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This book examines contemporary technologically saturated life and argues that decline is not approaching but already underway. It names current reality as immediate modernity and defines its dominant state as The Decline: a loop where digital technology and capitalism reinforce one another while eroding meaning, stability, and future direction. The chapters trace how acceleration shifts from promise to paralysis: systems upgrade, yet social life repeats, exhausts, and frays. Drawing on social theory and cultural critique, the analysis follows platforms, artificial intelligence, crisis driven media, and data economies as they reshape identity, attention, and affect. Anxiety is reframed not as personal malfunction but as a rational response to structural conditions that demand constant productivity while delivering diminishing returns. Rather than predicting collapse, the book reveals how decline is presented as progress itself, and offers a diagnostic framework for understanding burnout, digital culture, technocapitalism, and experiences of lost futures.
Chapter 1: Introduction: capitalism, technology, accelerationism and the decline.- Chapter 2: Defining immediate modernity.- Chapter 3: Anxiety accelerationism: immediate capital for immediate modernity.- Chapter 4: Modernity has failed: the beau idéal has been disconnected.- Chapter 5: Deconstructing accelerationism in immediate modernity.- Chapter 6: Identifying the deterritorialised flow paradox of immediate modernity: reconstructing accelerationism as investigatory accelerationism.- Chapter 7: Hyperstition: a primer.- Chapter 8: Hyperstition as rational ego death.- Chapter 9: Examining the influence of the virtual: oscillating the flatline technogothic readings of oxenfree.- Chapter 10: Closing capital s loop: the decline as a rational societal endpoint.
Nicholas Norman Adams is Permanent Research Fellow at Robert Gordon University, UK, and lives in Leith, Scotland. He is an interdisciplinary psychologist and sociologist. He received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2019. His research explores identity, risk, technology, accelerationism, and anxiety in contemporary Western culture.
