Kali Yuga
| Kali Yuga | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Age in Hindu cosmology |
| Related | KALI/ACC |
| Cycle position | Fourth (final) of four yugas |
| Duration | 432,000 years |
| Traditional start | 3102 BCE |
| Preceded by | Dvapara Yuga |
| Followed by | Krita Yuga (next cycle) |
Kali Yuga (कलियुग) is the fourth and final age in the yuga cycle of Hindu cosmology, characterized as an era of moral and social decline that precedes the destruction and renewal of the world.[1] It is traditionally held to be the present age.
The concept supplies the conceptual basis for Kali Yuga Accelerationism, a decentralized online current associated with the Miya persona and, in retrospect, treated as a precursor to Remilia Corporation.
Yuga cycle
Hindu cosmology describes time as proceeding through repeating cycles of four ages, or yugas, of diminishing length: the Krita (also called Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. Together these form a mahayuga of 4,320,000 years, and 1,000 mahayugas constitute a kalpa.[2] Each successive age represents a decline in humanity's moral and physical condition; traditional accounts personify dharma as a bull that loses one leg in each age, standing on a single leg during the Kali Yuga.
The four yugas are assigned durations of 1,728,000, 1,296,000, 864,000, and 432,000 years respectively, the Kali Yuga being the shortest.[1] Puranic sources date its beginning to 3102 BCE, following the death of Krishna and the end of the Dvapara Yuga.[2] At its conclusion the world is destroyed and recreated, beginning a new cycle with the Krita Yuga.
Character of the age
The Puranas describe the Kali Yuga as an age of strife, dishonesty, and spiritual degeneration in which observance of dharma progressively collapses.[1] The age takes its name from Kali, a figure personifying discord and vice, distinct from the goddess Kālī. Near the end of the age, Kalki, the final avatar of Vishnu, is prophesied to appear, destroy the wicked, and restore righteousness, inaugurating the next Krita Yuga.
In accelerationist thought
In the late 2010s the concept was adapted into Kali Yuga Accelerationism (stylized #KALIACC), a decentralized online current that fused the Hindu cyclical cosmology with the accelerationist philosophy of Nick Land and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.[3] The framing identified the present technological epoch with the terminal phase of the Kali Yuga, treating capitalist and technological acceleration as an impersonal process driving toward collapse and renewal rather than progress. Its most systematic articulation appears in "KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology", a 2023 essay by Charlotte Fang.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kali Yuga". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kalpa". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
- ↑ xegis (July 18, 2025). "A Preliminary Treatise on Kali/Acc (Kali Yuga Accelerationism)". [Essay]. Paragraph. Retrieved July 21, 2026.