Retrocausal Anachronism

Retrocausal anachronism
Coined by	Miya
Related concepts	Nick Land, KALI/ACC
Field	Accelerationism

Retrocausal anachronism is a concept in the accelerationist thought associated with the Miya persona and Remilia Corporation, describing the way a practice or system can be rendered obsolete by the recognition that it will eventually be surpassed. Rather than being displaced by an existing replacement, the practice is devalued in advance, once its future automation becomes conceivable.

Concept

Under the concept, an anticipated future capability effectively reaches backward to strip legitimacy from the present form. Applied to computation and artificial intelligence, and under a low time-preference outlook, it holds that human competitive achievements are anachronized ahead of their actual supersession. Athletic ability, artistic authorship, and strategic mastery are recast as local contests whose outcomes no longer establish genuine superiority, persisting instead as simulation, entertainment, and nostalgia. By the same reasoning, the effort to preserve anthropocentric distinction, including through transhumanism, is treated as itself a retrocausal anachronism.

Background

The idea extends themes from accelerationism and the writing of Nick Land, in which the future is understood to exert influence on the present, and from KALI/ACC, which denies that human beings can meaningfully steer technological development. Remilia has announced a forthcoming book collecting and interpreting Miya's writing, Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, published through Passage Press's Network Press imprint and described by Charlotte Fang as an articulation of Miya's "radical accelerationist realism."

See also

• Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby
• Accelerationism
• Nick Land
• KALI/ACC