Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation
Evidence
What is being disavowed in the abjection of evil and ignorance onto fantasmatic Others is our own complicity in planetary networks of oppression. What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. There is a sense in which it simply is the case that the political elite are our servants; the miserable service they provide from us is to launder our libidos, to obligingly re-present for us our disavowed desires as if they had nothing to do with us. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes Marx’s ‘capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor’ from Capital volume one. — connects to: Capitalist realism makes alternatives to capitalism unthinkable — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 8; Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 145 (+5 more)
Related
- Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us (similarity 0.96)
- Capital is abstract yet depends entirely on our voluntary cooperation. (similarity 0.95)
- Capital depends on us more than we depend on it (similarity 0.95)
- Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor (similarity 0.94)
- Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. (similarity 0.91)
- Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy (similarity 0.86)
- Capitalism functions only through our complicity and cooperation (similarity 0.79)
- Capital cannot survive without humans even though humans could survive without it. (similarity 0.79)