To the Vector the Spoils: On McKenzie Wark’s ‘Capital Is Dead’, PopMatters
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To the Vector the Spoils: On McKenzie Wark’s ‘Capital Is Dead’, PopMatters
This proletariat is being objectively reinforced by the virtual elimination of the peasantry and by the increasing degree to which the “service” sectors and intellectual professions are being subjected to factorylike working conditions.
Guy Debord • Society of the Spectacle
new class, which does not own the means of production but rather has ownership over information.
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
The problem at the end of the Reagan cycle is that capital has successfully expanded, but is no longer able to drive the economy, and has left a large part of society increasingly unequal.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.