Capital’s center is missing yet still posited as a responsible agent
Evidence
The supreme genius of Kafka was to have explored the negative atheology proper to Capital: the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there – it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 138
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism differs from fascism in requiring no propaganda or subjectively assumed belief — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 29; Call centers give consumers their most direct experience of capital’s centerlessness — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 132; Replacing bad individuals cannot fix vices engendered by structure — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 142 (+4 more)
Related
- Capital’s missing center still gets posited because what exists cannot take responsibility (similarity 0.95)
- Capitalism has no center, only entities incapable of responsibility (similarity 0.85)
- Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures (similarity 0.83)
- The centerlessness of capitalism is unconsciously unbearable and disavowed (similarity 0.81)
- Call centers reveal Capital’s systemic inefficiency as a profit fixation (similarity 0.79)
- Call centers give consumers their most direct experience of capital’s centerlessness (similarity 0.79)
- Capital is constitutively blind to its own nature like a disconnected AI (similarity 0.79)
- Widespread service failures fail to unsettle faith in capitalist efficiency (similarity 0.79)
- Call centers embody capitalism’s centerlessness yet fail to undermine faith in its efficiency (similarity 0.78)
- Call centers give consumers their only direct experience of capitalism’s centerlessness (similarity 0.78)
- Kafka’s bureaucracy describes market capitalism more than totalitarianism (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures
#expands(0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 145 - Capital is constitutively blind to its own nature like a disconnected AI
#complicates(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1979