Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation.
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 (
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No matter how reified both categories are in reality, neither is totally reified; both refer back to living subjects - just as does the most adventurous cybernetic machine. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 180 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Capital is both a tool and a coercive force over others (+8 more)
Related
- Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us (similarity 0.92)
- Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation (similarity 0.91)
- Capital is abstract yet depends entirely on our voluntary cooperation. (similarity 0.91)
- Capital depends on us more than we depend on it (similarity 0.89)
- Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor (similarity 0.89)
- Capital cannot survive without humans even though humans could survive without it. (similarity 0.89)
- Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy (similarity 0.83)
- Capital is both a commodity and a coercive social force. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Capital cannot survive without humans even though humans could survive without it.
#corroborates(0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1419 - Capital is both a tool and a coercive force over others
#expands(0.85) - Even the most reified institutions still depend on living human subjects.
#corroborates(0.84) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 180 - Capital is a social relation conferring extractive power, not just machinery
#expands(0.82) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 792 - Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy
#qualifies(0.80) - Marx’s organic composition of capital extends to the organic composition of individuals
#expands(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2313 - The accumulation of men and of capital are inseparable processes.
#qualifies(0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 345