Decelerationist
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A proponent of slowing down the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism. uncommon
"The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national economic structures irrelevant."
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More examples"The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national economic structures irrelevant."
Etymology
From deceleration + -ist.
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