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Capitalism in Times of Catastrophe (lecture)

lecture at University Hamburg 17.1.2024 “Overfished, overvalued, overcommunicated, overbranded, overaesthetized, overmedicated, overmonitored, overvirtualized, overmedialized” (Kroker, Krooker, Cook 1989: 13). Today, it is speculative capitalization in particular – inextricably linked to the rise of networked computers – that has led to […]

Capitalism in Times of Catastrophe (lecture)

From Commodities to Assets / Capital as Power and the Ontology of Finance

Introduction The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an immense collection of commodities assets. — paraphrasing Karl Marx The mirages revolt The financial meltdown of 2008 presented an opportunity to examine certain fundamental

From Commodities to Assets / Capital as Power and the Ontology of Finance

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