#subsumption

[flairina]

Ayy yo its Ya Boi, Wandering Eye recently reread Subsumption, so i'm back at it again with another doodle. i like to call this one "nobody here likes Kyubey, and in fact we wish to inflict bodily harm upon them" enjoy~

(also, if i may ask, do you have any plans on continuing the fic any time soon, or is it going to be staying on hiatus for a while longer?)

Hah, very nice! Love how concerned Ashtaroth manages to look here without even having a face. (^u^) Would you like to post that to the threads yourself this time, or shall I do it again?

Also I very much would like to continue the fic some time soon, but I would also like to continue every other fic I'm working on some time soon. Something I'm currently failing at on all fronts (check my Patreon, I just posted an update there on the current progress of every fic chapter I currently have in the chamber right now, and it's... long). ^^; I think I may actually need to do a rewrite of Assemblance 13 (though this scene would still be quite accurate), as it's kind of wrecked my pacing, but I'd also like to just move on so there's actual progress, and being torn between those two feelings has gotten me even more stuck than I've already been. Tis a frustrating dichotomy that I need to resolve post-haste.

As proof I haven't been totally idle though, here's a commission I had done of Hirako Hamahashi, AKA Harpoon Girl, who caused Ash to fully witch out in the first place. Which I really need to upload to the threads as well:

[ritaglietti]

[sterwood]

From “Without Reserves” by Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, included in “Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression” ed. Tithi Bhattacharya

[ultroid2068]

"While it is difficult to identify a precise and determinate “logic” as to why some activities become really subsumed and others do not, the fact that certain activities require delicate work or direct human contact, and therefore must remain labour-intensive, is clearly key. There appears always to be a remainder of such activities, an assortment of differentiated tasks, mostly in services.11 Insofar as services remain services, they tend predominantly to be a source only of “absolute”, and not “relative” surplus value. This is simply another way of saying that there are limits to raising productivity. Consequently, economies that are “post-industrial” and concentrated around service work tend to be low-growth. In such conditions, it is imperative for capitalists to get as much out of their workers as possible, by increasing the duration or intensity of labour. To some extent, the prerequisite for the existence of many jobs becomes pressurised work conditions. If super-exploited sectors take up a growing share of the labour market, this also puts downward pressure on all wages, and increases insecurity, as workers lose bargaining power and bosses are emboldened to demand ever more flexibility. With this, the door is opened for a whole range of abuses to be unleashed upon the worker — sexual, emotional and psychological, as well as the stealing or retention of wages and chronic overworking. Certain positions, such as that of the low-wage service sector worker, thus appear as a kind of special category of surplus worker, akin to the informally self-employed in low-income countries (and in high income countries over the past decade or so). Low-wage service workers must become extreme self-exploiters, as well as being super-exploited, if they are to get work. Many of these jobs (deliveries, house-cleaning, supermarket baggers, and so on) can only exist because the wages of the people performing the service are a fraction of what those consuming the service are paid. Thus, the condition for finding a job in a growing service sector is often accepting a significantly lower than average wage." - Endnotes #4, An Identical Abject-Subject?

[flairina]

i read your Subsumption fic and liked it, so i made a thing. sending here since the thread on SV is currently locked. anyway, have a Beach(bank?) Episode.

Oh wow, receiving fanart in my tumblr inbox was seriously unexpected. Very nice! Love that Ashtaroth is fishing with Charlotte as the worm, that's just great. XD For the record, the SV thread also isn't locked! There aren't any rules about "necroing" on SV like there are on Spacebattles, and fanart is generally considered a relevant addition to the thread regardless; I've seen story threads revived years later just so someone could post fanart in them. As such, please feel free to post this there as well, though only if you want. Regardless, thank you! O(∩_∩)O

[ultroid2068]

At every stage of social evolution each economic category reveals a definite relation between men. This relation becomes conscious and is conceptualised. Because of this the inner logic of the movement of human society can be understood at once as the product of men themselves and of forces that arise from their relations with each other and which have escaped their control. Thus the economic categories become dynamic and dialectical in a double sense. As ‘pure’ economic categories they are involved in constant interaction with each other, and that enables us to understand any given historical cross-section through the evolution of society. But since they have arisen out of human relations and since they function in the process of the transformation of human relations, the actual process of social evolution becomes visible in their reciprocal relationship with the reality underlying their activity. That is to say, the production and reproduction of a particular economic totality, which science hopes to understand, is necessarily transformed into the process of production and reproduction of a particular social totality; in the course of this transformation, ‘pure’ economics are naturally transcended, though this does not mean that we must appeal to any transcendental forces. Marx often insisted upon this aspect of dialectics. For instance:  “Capitalist production, therefore, under its aspect of a continuous connected process or as a process of reproduction produces not only commodities, not only surplus value, but it also produces and reproduces the capitalist relation itself, on the one hand the capitalist and on the other, the labourer.”

György Lukács, History and Class Consciousness

[plasticgivens]

What Is To Be Done Under Real Subsumption?

Workshop and meeting, Bulegoa, Bilbao, 28th, 29th & 30 November, 2014

Anthony’s Presentation

Marina’s presentation

other videos from the conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwk5pwC7O5w