Under knowledge capitalism, idleness gets absorbed into producing the person as Capital.

Evidence

Even though Marx speaks of ‘capital fixe being man himself’, human beings, endowed with ‘general intellect’, are now transforming themselves into Capital. In contrast, true freedom would be possible only if life were entirely freed from Capital – which represents a new form of transcendence. The transcendence of Capital stands in the way of life as immanence. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the paradox of generalized intellect under capital — leisure becomes self-investment.
• XREF: connects to: Emotions, education, and health become profitable once formally subsumed by capital. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 103; Marx’s free time itself becomes capital through self-development. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 115; The inner self is colonized by capitalist productivity norms — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 82 (+4 more)

Related

• Marx’s free time itself becomes capital through self-development. (similarity 0.83)
• Late capitalism makes people identical with their jobs, colonizing sleep and dreams (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Marx’s free time itself becomes capital through self-development. #corroborates (0.90) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 115
• Emotions, education, and health become profitable once formally subsumed by capital. #corroborates (0.85) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 103
• The inner self is colonized by capitalist productivity norms #expands (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 82
• Immediacy aestheticizes capital’s premiums on speed, flow, and self-actualization #corroborates (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 135
• Late capitalism makes people identical with their jobs, colonizing sleep and dreams #expands (0.78)
• When everything is capital, labor and class become illegible categories #qualifies (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 64
• Mental health problems are captured discontent that should be redirected at Capital #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 164