Speed, demon! Accelerationism's rhetoric of weird, mystical, cosmic love.

This article examines a particular strand of accelerationism—a theoretical stance toward capitalism that embraces occult poetics and aligns with what Brad Baumgartner terms "Weird Mysticism," a rhetorical praxis combining pessimism, horror, and apophatic mysticism. Unlike more pragmatic accelerationist works such as the *Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics* (MAP), this approach uses hyperstitional and occult rhetoric to invoke a nihilistic vision of a post-capitalist, post-human future characterized by cosmic dissolution and entropic decay. The article focuses on the occult resistance anthology *Revolutionary Demonology* by the Gruppo di Nun, which employs accelerationist themes through a gothic, mystical lens to advocate for an embrace of extinction as a form of cosmic love and ultimate redemption. By situating this rhetoric within Baumgartner’s framework of Weird Mysticism, the article highlights how these texts use poetic exacerbation and negative logic to envision a radical transformation beyond human-centered existence.