Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist…
Economic crises and uneven development, despite what CNBC or Econ 101 says, are an absolute necessity for the capitalist mode of production.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
In precapitalist societies, producers had direct access to their means of subsistence: land for farming and housing.
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
‘The basic behaviour mode of the world system is exponential growth of population and capital, followed by collapse… Under the assumption that population and capital growth should not be deliberately limited but should be left to “seek their own levels”, we have not been able to find a set of policies that avoids the collapse mode of behavior.’