Capital is constitutively blind to its own nature like a disconnected AI

Evidence

Capital is like Neuromancer before the fated fusion with Wintermute, a component part which narcissistically mistakes itself for a final cause. Or it is like Ultron, a deranged personification of a worldwide network, part fiendish artificial intelligence, part artificial stupidity, part petulant infant, constitutively blinded by its own core programming. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1979

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Fisher’s earlier ch7/ch10 discussions of drives and machinic personification of capital, plus his Neuromancer allusion connects to the cyberpunk analysis running through the book. — connects to: Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; Capital’s center is missing yet still posited as a responsible agent — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 138; Capital’s missing center still gets posited because what exists cannot take responsibility — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 138 (+2 more)
• FICTION: The ‘capital cannot understand itself’ formulation is a usable idea for an essay on how systems mistake means for ends.