Capital is a transcendent force that estranges life from itself

Evidence

In his final work – Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life – Deleuze elevates immanence to a formula for beatitude: ‘We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. It is not immanence to life, but the immanent that is in nothing is itself a life. A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss.’ Immanence is something immanent that ‘is in nothing’ because it does not occur in something else – it exists only in itself. As such, it is the ‘immanence of immanence’. It is subject to nothing; rather, it is self-sufficient. No order of domination can be erected on this level of life’s immanence (Immanenzebene des Lebens). In contrast, Capital manifests itself as transcendence: it estranges life from itself. Immanence as life suspends this alienating relationship. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Reuses the transcendence/immanence polarity Han developed across the chapter and elsewhere — the dominant (both sovereign and capital) is always beyond or over life, while the free life is purely immanent. — connects to: Capital is both a commodity and a coercive social force. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 76; Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Late capitalism is the purest form of capital, colonizing nature and the unconscious — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Deleuze’s only-via-Han presentation of ‘A LIFE’ as the immanence that is ‘in nothing,’ self-sufficient and thus un-domitable, invites slow thought about what it means for freedom to be founded on a void that refuses subjection.

Related

• Deleuze’s pure immanence is a plane no domination can colonize. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
• Globalized capital has colonized the once-alien depths of the unconscious #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 531
• Late capitalism is the purest form of capital, colonizing nature and the unconscious #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 128