Capital operates as a collective dream sustained by our own desires and energy
Evidence
Capital was the first to play at deterrence, abstraction, disconnection, deterritorialization, etc., and if it is the one that fostered reality, the reality principle, it was also the first to liquidate it by exterminating all use value, all real equivalence of production and wealth, in the very sense we have of the unreality of the stakes and the omnipotence of manipulation. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 83 (
#expands, via linked claim)
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 a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. (+5 more)
Related
- Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that runs on our voluntary cooperation (similarity 0.86)
- Capital depends on our cooperation even as it zombifies us (similarity 0.85)
- Capital depends on us more than we depend on it (similarity 0.85)
- Capital both created and then liquidated the reality principle (similarity 0.84)
- Capital is a hyper-abstract structure that still depends wholly on human cooperation. (similarity 0.83)
- Capital is abstract yet depends entirely on our voluntary cooperation. (similarity 0.82)
- Capital is an abstract parasite that converts our living cooperation into dead labor (similarity 0.82)
- Capital relates to society as sorcery and challenge, not contract. (similarity 0.80)
- Capital is both a tool and a coercive force over others (similarity 0.78)
- Social capital facilitates actions that would otherwise be impossible. (similarity 0.78)
- Pure economics redefined capital as deserved savings, not a social relation. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Psychological destiny mirrors and instantiates the exchange principle of capital
#complicates(0.75) - Capital both created and then liquidated the reality principle
#expands(0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 83