Capital cannot survive without humans even though humans could survive without it.
Evidence
The question of what capital wants from us requires answers at a number of levels: economic, psychonalytic, and perhaps most pressingly, theological. In any case, it is clear that, for the moment at least, capital cannot get along without us. It remains the case, however, that we can get along without it. The parasite needs its “mere conscious linkages”, but we do not need the parasite. In addition to anything else, to ignore the crucial functioning of the meat in the machine is poor cybernetics. The denial of human agency is an SF fantasy, albeit one that is everywhere realising itself. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1419
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation.; Capital is both a tool and a coercive force over others; The natural world offers nothing intrinsically resistant to capital’s commodification — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 546 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Capital is both a tool and a coercive force over others
#expands(0.80) - The natural world offers nothing intrinsically resistant to capital’s commodification
#complicates(0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 546 - Data colonialism annexes human life itself to capital
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 28 - Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420