Capital dreamt utopia is full automation with no humans needed at all

Evidence

The ultimate fantasy here — the ultimate fantasy of capital “itself” — is of cutting workers away altogether. Capital’s libidinal metaphysics is a kind of cosmic libertarianism: capital identifies itself as a force of unbounded energy, whose capacity for infinite accumulation is obstructed only by political contingencies. Soon, always soon, capital dreams, I will be free of the need for politics… and free of the need for humans too… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1973

Categorization

• BMF: The ‘cosmic libertarianism’ of capital dreaming of a burned-out planet without humans echoes HAL/Discovery and the notion in 2001 that the machine’s interest diverges from humanity’s survival.