capitalism

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

Von Jason Moore / 2022-08-10 / EconoFiction / capitalism, digitalization, imperialism, marxism, pandemie, transnational class

Every paragraph of Can Global Capitalism Endure? sizzles with insights. Here is William I. Robinson at his best: empirically sensitive, theoretically original, politically committed. Global Capitalism, in this groundbreaking formulation, is no amalgamation: “global” plus “capitalism.” It identifies, rather, an […]

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God

Von Craig Hickman / 2022-07-22 / Necropolitics / Bataille, capitalism, death drive, god, Nick Land, nihilism, reality, simulation

Base matter is external and foreign to human aspirations, and it refuses to allow itself to be reduced to the great ontological machines resulting from these aspirations. —Georges Bataille, Base Materialism and Gnosticism For Bataille, religion is not the revelation of

The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God

The Aggregate Demand Problem in Capitalism Solved

Von Tim Di Muzio / 2022-07-14 / EconoFiction / accumulation, banks, capital, capitalism, central banks, crisis, demand

Put simply, if a social credit (a sum of money) was issued by the government to its citizens and recorded as an investment rather than a debt to be repaid, there would be a lot less commercial bank debt and therefore a lot

The Aggregate Demand Problem in Capitalism Solved

To Live and Think Like Pigs

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-06-25 / Necropolitics / capitalism, class, dividuum, luxury, neoliberalism, poor

The title of the article was borrowed from Gilles Châtelet’s book “To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies”. Regarding this friendly takeover, think of Deleuze/Guattari’s confession that they only quote those they

To Live and Think Like Pigs

What is COVID Capitalism?

Von Thomas Nail / 2022-06-17 / Biopolitics / bailouts, capitalism, Covid, extraction, inequality

The term “COVID capitalism” designates the ways capitalism and the novel coronavirus alter and amplify one another. In this paper, I look at four major features that characterize this relationship so far. (1) Capitalist extraction and urbanization increase exposure to new

What is COVID Capitalism?

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Von Cli Ché / 2022-06-14 / Documentation / art, capitalism, extraction

by Nicole Antebi, Cathy Lee Crane, Jason Livingston, Laurie McKenna, Erin Wilkerson Prelude by Cathy Lee Crane In 2021 The Codex Foundation sent out a global invitation for artists to examine their practice, and named it: Extraction: Art on the

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The Planet does not return our Gaze

Von Dipesh Chakrabarty / 2022-06-06 / Necropolitics / capitalism, climate change, earth, planet, postcolonial

Dipesh Chakrabarty: My trajectory is intrinsically linked to globalization: myinterest in post-colonial issues is part of a global story. For example, India in thecontext of the 18th century was the last theater of conflict between the Frenchand the British, who

The Planet does not return our Gaze

The Capitalist Degree of Immortality

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2022-05-22 / EconoFiction / capital, capitalism, capitalization, eternity, immortality

Immortality This note offers some speculative ideas worth considering. One of the key features of all hierarchical civilizations is their rulers’ fear of death. This fear was famously narrated in the ancient myth of Gilgamesh – the Sumerian king who

The Capitalist Degree of Immortality

The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere

Von Craig Hickman / 2022-04-28 / Mashines / assemblage, capitalism, deleuze/guattari, machines, mechanosphere, Nick Land, nietzsche, technology

Everything becomes imperceptible, everything is becoming-imperceptible on the plane of consistency, which is nevertheless precisely where the imperceptible is seen and heard. It is the Planomenon, or the Rhizosphere, the Criterium (and still other names, as the number of dimensions

The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere

How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life

Von Jason Moore / 2022-04-19 / EconoFiction / accumulation, capitalism, cheap nature, climate crisis, nature, web of life

Of modernity’s illusions, none is so powerful—and none more fundamental to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s belief structures—than Man and Nature (Moore 2021e). I have written these words in the uppercase because they are not merely words; they are instruments of bourgeois

How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life

Ten Theses on the War in Ukraine and the Challenge for India

Von Siddharth Varadarajan / 2022-04-16 / EconoFiction, NonPolitics / capitalism, imperialism, Nato, russia, ukraine war

Big power rivalry is driven, in great part, by domestic economic and political factors. The US, Russia, Europe, and China all have internally driven tendencies towards external expansion. The same logic also illuminates another key feature of imperialism. That conflict

Ten Theses on the War in Ukraine and the Challenge for India

Capitalism as a Mode of Power

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2022-04-06 / EconoFiction / Capital as Power, capitalism, capitalization, creorder, derivatives, finance, sabotage stocks

Piotr Dutkiewicz: In a unique two-pronged dovetailing discussion, frequent collaborators and coauthors Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler discuss the nature of contemporary capitalism. Their central argument is that the dominant approaches to studying the market – liberalism and Marxism –

Capitalism as a Mode of Power

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