July 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is also the odd feature of time in Capitalism; periodisation is tricky when we are dealing with the moment of finance capitalism.
July 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is also the odd feature of time in Capitalism; periodisation is tricky when we are dealing with the moment of finance capitalism.
I’m trying to think production of ‘intelligence’ in both- ‘accumulation’ and ‘expropriation’. Like ‘money’ its form of mediation of human labour but it’s only usable as ‘capital’. AI is being used in speculative finance, not in imperial power grab, which means we have skipped that phase.
July 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m trying to think production of ‘intelligence’ in both- ‘accumulation’ and ‘expropriation’. Like ‘money’ its form of mediation of human labour but it’s only usable as ‘capital’. AI is being used in speculative finance, not in imperial power grab, which means we have skipped that phase.
A very compelling argument though!
July 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A very compelling argument though!
But we might be missing its paradoxical speculative, creative aspect—how it makes up stuff out of other stuff vis a vis ‘intelligence’—the very next ‘moment’ of capitalism in Arrighi’s schema: finance. We have to look at ‘accumulation’ with its dialectically opposite term ‘expropriation’.
July 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
But we might be missing its paradoxical speculative, creative aspect—how it makes up stuff out of other stuff vis a vis ‘intelligence’—the very next ‘moment’ of capitalism in Arrighi’s schema: finance. We have to look at ‘accumulation’ with its dialectically opposite term ‘expropriation’.
Critiquing ‘spreedsheet school of criticism’ by putting it into genre fiction? Love it
July 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Critiquing ‘spreedsheet school of criticism’ by putting it into genre fiction? Love it