Capital does not love you or hate you, but you are made of labor-value which it can use for something else.
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.
Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff https://truthout.org/articles/questioning-the-logic-of-capital-a-conversation-with-richard-d-wolff/
Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver
Alien Capital – Vast Abrupt https://vastabrupt.com/2018/07/11/alien-capital/
Welcome to the witch capital of Norway | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6613/vardo-norway-halloween-steilneset-memorial
Nothing in Capitalism is Clean: On Making Art in Empire http://www.thorncoyle.com/nothing-in-capitalism-is-clean-on-making-art-in-empire/
Schrödinger’s Capital: How Marxists erased Marx’s prediction of capitalist collapse | The Real Movement https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/schrodingers-capital-how-marxists-erased-marxs-prediction-of-capitalist-collapse/
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist/
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/
In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/museum-of-capitalism-boston
‘Hey, folks who are suffering the worst from capitalism, here’s your medicine: more capitalism, now with extra corruption’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/17/an-unlikely-group-of-billionaires-and-politicians-has-created-the-most-unbelievable-tax-break-ever/
Alex Schroeder: 2018-06-24 Capitalism https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-24_Capitalism
FOSS isn’t capitalism – Gullickson Laboratories https://jjg.2soc.net/2018/06/13/foss-isnt-capitalism/
America’s Brand of Capitalism Is Incompatible With Democracy https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html
People are jumping on Musk for ‘researching his jokes’ but, you know, if you researched your jokes you’d actually make better ones. Let’s be clear. The problem with Musk is not researching jokes. The problem with Musk is capitalism.
BBC - Capital - These fake start-ups highlight tech firms’ silly name trends http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180425-why-do-startup-company-names-all-sound-alike
Capitalism and Art - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJBI6lWmpQ
IS SONIC 2 ABOUT CAPITALISM??!??!? | SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS 3 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY
Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html
Deleuze & Guattari; Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium – palmermethode https://palmermethode.com/2017/12/21/deleuze-guattari-capitalism-a-very-special-delirium/
How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory
The People That Capitalism Makes | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-people-that-capitalism-makes
The Problem Is Capital https://jacobinmag.com/2017/08/wealth-inequality-united-states-capital-income/
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ Is Suddenly Everywhere - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-capitalism/524943/
One of the clouds is painted in gaudy colors and surrounded by small flying shapes: The airfolk’s circus, on its way to the capital.
📚 Finished reading The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
📚 Finished reading The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
📚 Finished reading Thinking About Capitalism by Jerry Z. Muller
📚 Finished reading Thinking About Capitalism by Jerry Z. Muller
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