Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist…
Transforming swaths of land into laboratories where laws and regulations are subordinate to accumulation is generative, “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality.”
Jesse Robertson • A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
In precapitalist societies, producers had direct access to their means of subsistence: land for farming and housing.
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
Karl Marx observait que l’accumulation du capital, pour s’enclencher, nécessite la concentration du capital d’une part, et le rassemblement de travailleurs qui ne possèdent que leur force de travail d’autre part ; il nomma ce processus « accumulation primitive ». Nous pouvons parler de manière analogue d’accumulation primitive du capital fossile41.
Andreas Malm • Fascisme fossile: L'extrême droite, l'énergie, le climat (French Edition)
in residual-emergent models, any given economic system or historical moment is an unstable mix of past and future systems. Capitalism therefore was the combination or battleground of its residual element, feudalism, and its emergent element—what?