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Review: Against the Machine
Against the Machine Against the Machine, Paul Kingsnorth. Thesis (ISBN: 9780593850633) 2025. Summary: An account of the rise of techno-capitalism and the threat it poses to humanity and to the Earth. “What Progress wants is to replace us. “Perhaps the last remaining question is whether we will let it.” That stark concluding heading and sentence in a chapter titled “What Progress Wants”…
I gave the Library of Congress (aka Twitter) no less than 175 Anti-Capitalist tweets (all irrefutable & 140 characters or less!) in one evening!
1. @owlerinc #Propaganda is any information that is propagated. I'm giving it to u right now.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
2. @owlerinc I consume corporate-manufactured #FakeNews indiscriminately & voraciously. For reality, I read books from the Library. #Propaganda
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Inefficiency_and_waste … "Critics relate the "ready-made" trend to a growing garbage problem: 4.5 lbs of trash are generated per person/day"
4. "..a mis-allocation of resources as industries & jobs are created for the sake of making $ as opposed to satisfying actual demands & needs."
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Irrationality … "Marxian economists, argue that the system of perpetual capital accumulation leads to irrational outcomes &..."
6. ...above from: Imperialism & political oppression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Imperialism_and_political_oppression …
7. "...as part of the nature of #Capitalism. [Its] constant drive to markets is viewed by many as the primary cause of globalization."
8. "They see what they characterize as unjust exploitation, militarily (such as India in 19th century) or economically (e.g., through IMF)..."
9. "...of natural resources & exploitation of slave labor from large parts of Asia, Africa & Americas which spurred the #IndustrialRevolution."
10. "They argue that the capitalist countries like England initially were helped by the primitive accumulation of #Capital thru the "theft"..."
11. "... The wealthy nations, they say, must maintain cheap access to 3rd world natural resources & unfree labor, by force if necessary..."
12. "...which leads the #Capitalist class to its markets into, & drain the resources of, less-developed nations. The #wealthy nations..."
13. "Marxists argue that the unplanned nature of capitalism inevitably overproduces commodities & overuses resources,..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Imperialism_and_political_oppression …
14. "...to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
15. "I hope we shall crush ... in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government..." - TJ
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism#Issues … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism … ..Wolin believes that the United States is increasingly turning into an illiberal democracy.
17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery#Capitalism … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history …
18. #USA = an #EconEngine of the British/Israeli #Empire. Founded on Feudal #Slavery, America now runs on #WageSlavery. http://historyhalf.com/slavery-and-american-capitalism/ …
19. “Slavery was not a sideshow in American History, it was the main event.” - Dr. J. Horton, George Mason U. #America was founded on Slavery.
20. "#Labor deserves greater consideration" -Lincoln http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class#Marxist … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class#Weberian … pic.twitter.com/y3aHnKwYpA View photo
21. To deny the existence of #SocialClass-based dialectical material framework is to deny #data, obvious reality - irresponsible, unscientific.
22. Please note: The #Capitalists now have #RobotPolice, #NanoDrones & can manufacture augmented life forms. #Revolution #Singularity
23. The next phase after "Late Capitalism" is #Totalitarian #Fascism. Once #Wealth becomes concentrated enough, the remaining Capitalists rule.
24. #Empire... There is one Federal Reserve. In the 1st World, we "citizens" are property -- we remain peasants, or "#colonists" at best.
25. Fighting the #Rich is very "#American"! See: Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Adam Smith, Andrew Jackson. #Revolution
26. Tons of anti-1% quotes from Andrew Jackson: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/andrew+jackson …
27. "...Labor is the superior of #Capital & deserves much the higher consideration." -- Abraham Lincoln, Anti-Capitalist
28. "Capital... could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and..." -- Lincoln
29. Abraham Lincoln, Anti-Capitalist: "Labor is prior to, & independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor..."
30. "...It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased." -- Adam Smith
31. Adam Smith, Anti-Capitalist: "Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things..."
32. There is no statistically significant relation betw socio-econ status & "work," "talent" or "merit." It's more luck & fam
33. ...whereas #Capitalists say #Criminals shirk their "responsibility" to their natural #Rulers. #Meritocracy is a lie.
34. Marx: #Crime results when workers can't live or be happy on wages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology …
35. Thomas Jefferson - anti-Central Bank (Fed.) This quote crushes a pillar of #Capitalism: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/171666-the-central-bank-is-an-institution-of-the-most-deadly …
36. #Criminals are bad in #Capitalism cuz they do not obey Property Laws of 1% Ruling Class. So #Crime is essential to Capital
37. #Marxism shows that #Crime is due to material needs not being met in populations. #Capitalists believe #criminals are bad
38. #Capitalism is concerned with the happiness of the Rich Ruling 1%. #Socialism is concerned with happiness of Workers.
39. However, most #Capitalist apologists will simply state "I do not care about #Humans outside my country, nor in lower class"
40. No one on the fringes of #Empire will believe #TechnoCapitalism is a good idea. We are sheltered inside the Empire. #Blind
41. Your #brainwashing (no offense, just a fact) evidences the nearly total #corporate conquest of Americans' minds #Propaganda
42. This explains why u don't understand #Capitalism, even though Western Lit. contains over 200 yrs worth of lit. against it.
43. #Capital has devoured U.S. "education" through corporate domination of the #MassMedia & public dialogue (#propaganda).
44. From the view of the trapped #worker, a life of #Crime is entirely #rational. #Crime is the natural reflection of the 1%.
45. #ThugEmpire: I consider #Usury, #PrivateProperty (as opposed to #PersonalProperty) & #CorporatePersonhood to be criminal.
46. "#America" is a fiction. There is ONE global #market. All under one Federal Reserve #Empire - owned by Royals & Banks.
47. "#America" is a fiction of the #superstructure illusion created by the 1%. Materially, USA is a temporary economic engine
48. "#America," as u call it, is a useful fiction of the #superstructure. USA is still British Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure …
49. Only a particularly aggressive Empire can afford a Middle Class: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class …
50. Wealth, as information now divorced of "meaning," travels ONE way: UP to the 1%. http://bit.ly/17YwIF5
51. Huxley & Bernays explain in detail how corporate interests shape education: http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays …
52. Your brainwashing (don't worry, it's statistically normal) evidences the Power of the Ruling Class' propaganda methods.
53. The 1% has already won -- they are Big Govt & the Big Biz that own it. Keep in mind soon #Capital will have #RobotPolice!
54. Before 9/11 there were 6 (Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran, Cuba, N.Korea) nations outside the Empire of $. The last 3 remain
55. Since 9/11 #fake terror event, there are now only 3 nations not under the Fed. Reserve umbrella of the USA/UK/Israel Empire
56. Humbly, w/due respect, I suggest that u may not be so excited about "#Capitalism" if u lived on the fringes of its #Empire
57. Now, Stalin/Mao killed millions under State Capitalism regimes. U r saying the current USA/UK/Israel #Empire is less #evil?
58. You, like all of us, are a slave to "#innovation"... The Christian Anarchist, Jacques Ellul: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul …
59. I'm not #Leninist, I'm a #Marxist-informed #AnarchoSyndicalist, if that. Technologcal determinist & dialectical materialist
60. This extreme #disparity in income distribution is not necessary to generate what u call "innovation" pic.twitter.com/W9BonIticb View photo
61. The attached pic shows the ratios of #WealthDistribution. It's insane. Mathematically nonsensical. pic.twitter.com/HkqR9ktmyb View photo
62. #Capitalism only makes sense if one thinks working classes & 3rd World are sub-human. It makes sense for the 1%. #Eugenics
63. I don't understand why ppl even think #Capitalism makes any sense. A lot of propaganda, fear, gadgets, distraction I guess
64. A lot of billions of #$s of #Propaganda went into manufacturing your #BeliefSystem.
65. The #Capitalist Empire has to eventually collapse. #Robot technology will soon secure the Total Power of the 1%.
66. The #Capitalist explanation was never based on any reality. Capitalists won for short-term productive might & propaganda.
67. My spoutings arent so much beliefs as responsible sociological analysis. Your views are based on #Capitalist #propaganda.
68. Humans have out-innovated themselves. When u say "personal #responsibility," u mean "responsibility to the Rich property"
69. #TechnoCapital makes imperative the increasing urgent need to #colonize new aspects of human & bio Reality at expense of us
70. Besides that, the goals, products & processes themselves & overall narrative of the bourgeois projects are often dubious.
71. #TechnoCapital is a technologically-driven roulette wheel -- entirely focused on the next fiscal quarter, damn the rest..
72. Because the stakes are so high in Late #Capital, the #Owners end up terrorizing themselves for the sake of temporary ends.
73. And ultimately, even the upper classes are on unsure footing & scrambling. Only the #TOP is safe. pic.twitter.com/yBVn36HTMz View photo
74. ..."once in a while" a poor Man/Woman becomes Rich to the 1% level. The outlier doesn't make the NORM of oppression OK.
75. #Capitalism favors this arrangement of Society, which as u can see is ultimately #fascist & #feudal pic.twitter.com/cP66t4vgjc View photo
76. At any given time, #Capitalism wants the vast majority to be economically limited, stressed out & afraid, & the Rich happy
77. ...disguises the obvious Reality that #Capital wants restless, wasteful, uninformed reservoirs of captive #Laborer Class.
78. #SocialMobility in Feudal #TechnoCapitalism is illusory: The fact that the occasional consumer/worker becomes rich once...
79. What #Capital wants more than Govt is a restless human reservoir of Labor to generate wealth for #RulingClass. #Revolution
80. #Industrial Collectivism in general generates #alienated Labour, & certainly poverty & crime. Back to the #farm! But without #slavery!
81. #TechnoCapitalism is a #TechnoPlantation. A #Wealth farm, but not for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation #Revolution #Singularity #PostScarcity
82. Oppressors.org @OppressorsOrg The Plutocracy Daily is out! http://paper.li/OppressorsOrg/1307905906 … ▸ Top stories today via @Tyranosopher @PLUTOcracy_ Retweeted by
83. It doesn't matter whether u "choose" to work at McDonald's or Taco Bell. Fact is 80-90% of the world pop. can't pay a bill
84. You don't really know #Capitalism unless u know #Marxism - the ultimate critique, both "morally," philosophically, & economically of course.
85. "Responsibility" and "Innovation" and "Productivity" are defined by the 1%. #Capital has no "responsibility" but to Profit
86. The #3rdWorld is crucial to Western #affluence. Labor & the 3rd World are as "responsible" as the richest 1%. #Redistribute
87. Without McDonalds workers, there would be no McDonalds. Don't be quick to congratulate the owner. #Labor precedes Capital.
88. To what or whom are we responsible? How can one be 'responsible' to a cancerous entity? #Revolution #PostScarcity
89. Human survival and achievable happiness is more important than innovation or 'responsibility' The Humans aren't getting fed
90. Society would 'collapse' without McDonalds workers, 3rd World sweatshop workers, and criminals for that matter. #Revolution
91. People who work at McDonald's give their lives so that we may have cheap, barely digestible sustenance. #Workers
92. I'm not interested in compensation as much as doing something morally justifiable that I can stand.
93. The Ruling Class 1% represent nothing "moral." Today, there is nearly 0 relation between "work" & "success" unfortunately.
94. There are ppl that don't work, but I get it. The Welfare 1% are the reflection of the Ruling 1%. #Takers are rational.
95. I work at Domino's Pizza. I'm in school to be a Physicians' Asst. (cuz M.D. takes too long -- I have kids). I want a PhD.
96. Everyone works, or has to -- for insufficient compensation. But your 53% are the good ppl who work hard in a bad system.
97. If u don't like gov't, think about how #corporations are similar/different. If u don't like corporations, think about how gov't is sim/diff.
98. Anti-Authoritarian 'right' & anti-Authoritarian 'left' have a common purpose against the 1%. We gotta sort thru confusion..
99. I totally agree with u that the People (99%) are turned against one another. I am a Marxist-informed Social-Libertarian.
100. Thanks for listening! #ClassWarfare is real though... Look at the numbers. #SocialMobility can happen, but Class is real.
101. @wired I'm looking into #bitcoin, but it appears to be revolutionary, as an alternative money to the #Totalitarian Federal Reserve.
102. Wired @wired What if you secretly turned your company’s software into a Bitcoin mining setup? Yeah. You’d probably get fired too http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/esea-2/ … Retweeted by View summary
103. Shout-out to all the broad-minded #Capitalists, #Technocrats, misguided ppl who follow me 1 LUV #Revolution #Singularity #PostScarcity #Marx
104. Good discussion on Aldous Huxley / T. R. Malthus & #Overpopulation: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/991365-overpopulation-a-relevant-concern … #Revolution #Singularity #PostScarcity
105. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Overpopulation leads the Humans to factories, misery, totalitarianism: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/16335101-brave-new-world-revisited … #PostScarcity
106. @DRUDGE_REPORT For the record, #Collectivist production is dubious -- both Capitalism & Communism. Humans need to farm.
107. #Revolution In case u read my anti-#Capitalist, anti-#Robot tweets -- I went hard last night, it was great. Check them out. Let's all farm.
108. #Capitalism 1% is "Happy" -- the remaining 99% are restless, broke & scared. #Revolution
109. Shady, if u ask me.. Shane Todd, American Engineer Found Dead In Singapore, Committed Suicide: Inquest http://huff.to/1dbGg05 @HuffPostCrime View summary
110. The ultimate #AntiCapitalist explanation: It never gets old... Donald Duck (1941) "A Good Time For A Dime" http://youtu.be/7Ln1XkaoBm8 View media
111. To the #NSA analyst I just blocked for spam, please don't hurt me or my fam. I have lawyers watching. (Not that u r scared..) #Revolution
112. Chemise - "She Can't Love You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkIjNfLH2AA&list=RD02AuKyz-s3CUs … via @youtube View media
113. Creating #Garbage is a main preoccupation of #Capitalism... The Deviants - "Garbage" (1967): http://youtu.be/oAb1-glPEpM @youtube #Revolution View media
114. Now for some music... René & Angela - "I Love You More" (1981) http://youtu.be/AuKyz-s3CUs via @youtube View media
115. @DRUDGE_REPORT If u read all my twit, u likely now embrace #AnarchoSyndicalism, like me. #Welcome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism …
116. @DRUDGE_REPORT Come to think of it, what's worse? Some kind of disastrous Social Collapse or #RobotPolice digital prison?
117. @DRUDGE_REPORT The #FirstWorld colonizes the 2nd & 3rd Worlds. In the same fashion, The #Spectacle colonizes your #Mind.
118. @DRUDGE_REPORT Zeitgeist movie clips about Federal Reserve. #Usury forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pQNkX8jLM … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ … View media
119. @DRUDGE_REPORT Q: How does "#Capitalism" explain the Federal Reserve? A: It doesn't. It's #Feudal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve …
120. @DRUDGE_REPORT Oh, btw: The USA, UK & Israel have the same bosses as the #Terrorists. 9/11 and Boston bombing were #fake.
121. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism might avoid collapse with #Robotics & #BioTech booms. Not looking fwd to it... #RobotPolice
122. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism has expended its #MiddleClass in USA. The affluence of the former Middle is now property of 1%.
123. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism fosters a #MiddleClass only in times of War or Tech Revolution. #Luxury http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/democracy_in_america_is_a_useful_fiction_20100124/ …
124. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism commodifies everything - every material, every human, every technique, every concept, every bit
125. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism is a constant revolution of materials, digits, relations of prod. The only constant is the 1%.
126. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism depends on ever-escalating stakes of security, PermaWar, infinitely escalating Debt...
127. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism assumes "innovation," "growth" (aka plunder of new markets to colonize) are all infinite...
128. @DRUDGE_REPORT Capitalists worship "innovation supremacy," "efficiency of technique" & "productivity" - all defined by 1%.
129. @DRUDGE_REPORT There is enough planetary #affluence to support all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity …
130. Post-Slavery #Techno-Fake #Capitalism is nothing but #Feudalism 2.0 Looks like there won't be a 3.0 #PostScarcity #Revolution #Singularity
131. @DRUDGE_REPORT The face of The Beast is not Human. Humans are extraneous to $ concentration. See it: http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/must-see-video-of-high-frequency-robot-trading …
132. How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall … via @BW
133. @DRUDGE_REPORT What I describe is haywire Late #CyberBioNanoInfoTechno #Capitalism Panopticon digital prison w/Robot Police
134. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Capitalism describes a middle section, but not the Federal Reserve on top, nor the peasants on bottom.
135. Post-Slavery #Capitalism is nothing but a re-marketing of #Feudalism. Same Ruling Class. Same 99% vs. 1% since Egypt. #Revolution @venusxGG
136. Post-Slavery #Capitalism is nothing but a re-marketing of #Feudalism. Same Ruling Class. Same 99% vs. 1% since Egypt. http://libcom.org/files/feudalism%20to%20capitalism.pdf …
137. Kevin Phillips, advisor to Prez Richard Nixon, the USA is a plutocracy in which there is a "fusion of money & government."
138. @DRUDGE_REPORT United States is a plutocracy in which there is a "fusion of money & government." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy#United_States …
139. @DRUDGE_REPORT #BigGovernment & #BigBiz are indistinguishable. They represent #Capital & bourgeois Ruling Class interests.
140. @wired @CadeMetz Melody Meckfessel = #TechnoWhore Harlot of #Mammon: You foist #GoogleGlass on humans becuz it profits parasites & military
141. Redwooddog @redwoodfog @TeamRevoltNow @fucktyler Also monsanto, military industrial complex and McDonalds... Retweeted by
142. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity#The_scarcity_problem …
143. "...differential dist. betw. producing class (slaves, peasants, proletariat) & a surplus-taking class (slave owners, lords, bourgeoisie)."
144. "#Scarcity is secondary to the issue of differential distribution within a society due to class, primarily between a producing class..."
145. @wired @CadeMetz Fuck you b!tch. Burn in Hell. Save the Humans, kill the cyborgs! #Revolution #Singularity #PostScarcity
146. DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT CHICAGOLAND: 73 shot, 11 dead over holiday weekend... http://drudge.tw/16ZXuvN Retweeted by
147. DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT REPORT: CA prison doctors sterilized 150 women to cut welfare costs... http://drudge.tw/16ZXrQB Retweeted by
148. Occupy Wall Street @OccupyWallStNYC A revolutionary situation: "a condition in which rulers no longer can rule in their old ways, while the ruled no longer wish to be so ruled" Retweeted by
149. @DRUDGE_REPORT Second-largest U.S. employer is temp agency... That is crazy! #Capitalism = eternal insecurity... until the #Revolution!
150. DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT STIMULUS: Second-largest U.S. employer is temp agency... http://drudge.tw/16ZWzvo Retweeted by
151. ❤ Lisbeth ☿@TransgenderGyrl @DRUDGE_REPORT ...in other news,,, Google is sooooooooo going to dataRape the USA..... oh dear... Retweeted by
152. @DRUDGE_REPORT #Obama needs to use Google to provide all humans on Earth with a #BasicIncome. #Revolution #Singularity #PostScarcity
153. @bigthink #BigBrother tracks where you drive. #Revolution #Singularity
154. HuffPost Politics @HuffPostPol Female inmates were coerced into illegal sterilizations, a new report finds http://huff.to/1aSLYqS Retweeted by View summary
155. @fucktyler ATTN: Black Ppl! If #Zimmerman gets off, please direct your riots towards Wall St. & Google HQ. Thanks, #Revolution
156. @akasomemoney You may be right! Would sex with woman have prevented #Zimmerman's fascism? How do we know he's not a repressed #homosexual?
157. @fucktyler We're all animals in a cage. I hope there's a riot that attacks Google HQ and Wall St. #FuckZimmerman #Revolution #Singularity
158. Salon.com @Salon Rapper Mos Def demonstrates the force-feeding procedure that's being used on more than 40 detainees in Guantánamo Bay http://slnm.us/EhtPyG6 Retweeted by
159. RT @RT_com ‘German government sells the privacy of German citizens to the US’ http://on.rt.com/veic42 #NSA #Snowden Retweeted by View summary
160. Everything about #Capitalism is temporary. Capitalism is a vector, not equilibrium. Capitalism's natural endpoint is Fascism & #RobotPolice.
161. #Revolution #Singularity What will happen first?... Social #Collapse or #Totalitarian #RobotPolice bio-nano-cyber-terror State? Resist #Tech
162. Anonymous @YourAnonNews Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Will you control the present? Retweeted by
163. WikiLeaks @wikileaks Snowden, Assange y Manning: héroes en la guerra contra nosotros | ElCiudadano http://www.elciudadano.cl/2013/07/06/72824/snowden-assange-y-manning-heroes-en-la-guerra-contra-nosotros/ … Retweeted by
164. The "goods" & "innovations" created by #Capitalism are defined as good or innovative because they TEMPORARILY bolster Power. #FalseReality
165. #Power The nature of #Capital's coercive Power lies in its ability to inculcate the oppressed with values that ultimately benefit Capital.
166. The laboring classes (non-Capitalist, non-Ruler) have little say in what is "good" or "innovative" to #Capital. The workers are #coerced.
167. The "goods" & "innovations" produced by #Capitalism are determined by what is "good" & "innovative" to Capital itself -- always temporary.
168. #CAPITALISM A main misconception of "capitalism" is: Competition & 'innovation' foster "good" or "necessary" things..
169. In Marxist econ, human wants in practice are not assumed to be infinite, but variable & ultimately conditioned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy …
170. Artificial scarcity describes scarcity of x even though the technology & prod. capacity exists to create an abundance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity …
171. #Snowden, the man without a country. why have borders anyway? #noborders #imagine
172. The Vigilant Citizen @vigilantfeed The Hidden (And Not So Hidden) Messages in Stanley Kubrik’s “Eyes Wide Shut” (pt. I) http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-hidden-and-not-so-hidden-messages-in-stanley-kubriks-eyes-wide-shut-pt-i/ … Retweeted by
173. I imagine #collapse will happen before mass #Revolution. Hopefully one or the other happens before #Robot-enforced #PoliceState
174. The #TechnoCapitalist #Panopticon #Spectacle we live in is a #vector not an equilibrium. The vector leads to #collapse or #Totalitarianism.
175.
#Synonyms: "Corporate" = "Cancerous" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer #Revolution
NO TERRORISM. It's all fake: There is no WMD. There is no Newtown, CT. There is no "Boston Marathon." There was no 9/11. They're all advertisements for Techno-Capitalism.
Not to be insensitive to any1 who really died. But my contention is exactly that.
If it's on TV, it's fake. No one died. No one got paid. No one got laid.
It's a Corporate Advertisement for Corporate Advertisement.
The cop pictured above isn't a real cop -- he's a simulated cop. He represents Techno-Capitalism's coercion and imprisonment of us all.
9/11 did NOT happen
Newtown, CT school shootings did NOT happen
Boston Marathon bombing did NOT happen
General Petraeus sexual affair did NOT happen
Pearl Harbor did NOT happen
JFK did NOT happen
MLK did NOT happen
Malcolm X did NOT happen
Corporate Personhood did NOT happen
This was not paid for by my corporate sponsor, unfortunately.
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“Matter goes insane. You are led to a simulation of God as a hypermassive ROM security construct at the end of the world. It is 2011 and monocrat New Jerusalem approaches climax, directing retrochronal counter-insurgency sweeps down into the jungle, where space-programmes subside into the inertia of myth.” – Nick Land, ‘No Future’, 1995 NL: Organisation is suppression. It's more accurate to say that systems which avoid self-organisation whilst maintaining trajectories of productive innovation end up parasitically inhabited by organisms of all kinds, whether those organism are biological organisms, corporations or state systems. The history of life on this planet right through to Microsoft is of the successive suppression of distributed, innovated systems.
JF: Can you give me an example?
NL: Well, first of all one has autocatalytic chemical systems that are subject to code control by RNA. When RNA begins to complicate enough to start exhibiting various kinds of lateral interference and experimental deviations, it becomes overcoded by DNA. The absolute crucial event in the whole history of the planet is the point at which the earth's bacterial life system - which is very loosely code controlled, comparatively - is subjected to exterminatory gassing by oxygen-emitting, massively highly structured securo-maniac metazoan organisms. Many of the bacteria disappear except insofar as they are captured as productive subcomponents of highly organised, nucleated, concentrational systems which are now what dominate all life on the planet and have done for five hundred million years.
H.A.#162 Legal - "Self-Reliance" vs. Extreme Experimentalist Techno-Capital (& the 'Degradation of Work' )= "self-reliance" is a virtue in ideal form. Readr rsponse. Not all creativity can be/should be transferable or captive to Capital
"The act of gaining skills, knowledge and ability is the only thing that gets me up in the morning. " Yes, every human that's "evolved" lol beyond TV viewing constantly or now internet / gaming viewing constantly is gonna be trying to apply him/herself to some sort of mission. That is the human impulse. One might call it "Will to Power" -- e.g. Nietzsche Or Will to some other concept Or Civilization as having a "Will to Order" -- i.e. Huxley in BNW Revisited One might call it "Creative Impulse" or "Creative Drive" Some creativity is manifest as Art, Literature, Science, Business certainly, Medicine, Law Now, not all creativity is commodifiable. Not all creativity can be, will be or should be transferable or captive to Capital and the interests of Das Capital. Some argue that "Techno-Capital" now has a financially lucrative mutual relationship and impetus in a Total society to develop a monopoly on a certain sorts of creativities:
technical computer robotic engineering type creativity and its intersection between
social engineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocapitalism
Corporate power and organization
Luis Suarez-Villa, in his 2009 book Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism argues that it is a new version of capitalism that generates new forms of corporate organization designed to exploit intangibles such as creativity and new knowledge.[1] The new organizations, which he refers to as experimentalist organizations are deeply grounded in technological research, as opposed to manufacturing and services production. They are also heavily dependent on the corporate appropriation of research outcomes as intellectual property.
This approach is further developed by Suarez-Villa in his 2012 book Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination, in which he relates the emergence of technocapitalism to globalization and to the growing power of technocapitalist corporations.[2] Taking into account the new relations of power introduced by the corporations that control technocapitalism, he considers new forms of accumulation involving intangibles---such as creativity and new knowledge---along with intellectual property and technological infrastructure. This perspective on globalization---and the effect of technocapitalism and its corporations---also takes into account the growing global importance of intangibles, the inequalities created between nations at the vanguard of technocapitalism and those that are not, the increasing importance of brain-drain flows between nations, and the rise of what he refers to as a techno-military-corporate complex that is rapidly replacing the old military-industrial complex of the second half of the 20th century.
The concept behind technocapitalism is part of a line of thought that relates science and technology to the evolution of capitalism. At the core of this idea of the evolution of capitalism is that science and technology are not divorced from society---or that they exist in a vacuum, or in a separate reality of their own---out of reach of social action and human decision. Science and technology are part of society, and they are subject to the priorities of capitalism as much as any other human endeavor, if not more so. Prominent scientists in the early 20th century, such as John Bernal posited that science has a social function, and cannot be seen as something apart from society.[3] Other scientists at that time, such as John Haldane, related science to social philosophy, and showed how critical approaches to social analysis are very relevant to science, and to our understanding of the need for science.[4] In our time, this line of thought has encouraged philosophers such as Andrew Feenberg to adopt and apply a critical theory approach to technology and science, providing many important insights on how scientific and technological decisions---and their outcomes---are shaped by society, and by capitalism and its institutions.[5]
At the level of corporate organisations, Suarez-Villa posits that what makes a technocapitalist corporation distinctive is its overarching emphasis on research. All other operations, such as production, marketing and distribution, become subordinate to research. Turning out continuous streams of new inventions and innovations, that can be turned into corporate intellectual property, is the most important goal. As a result, research has to be systematised, and organisational arrangements conceptualised as systematised research regimes have to be created to achieve it. This approach is related to the work of 20th century social theorist Pierre Bourdieu.[6] Although Bourdieu never used the terms technocapitalism or systematised research regime, the concept of the research regime can be related to his views on the dynamics of the relations of power, but in this case applied to corporate organisation. Internally, the relations of power favour research, and the research regime, because they are a means to create new technologies that can yield power and profit. The concept of systematised research regime can also be related to Bourdieu's vision of social positioning---in this case social positioning of the corporation and its research programme, as it tries to address the social need for new technologies.
A work that did not use the term technocapitalism, but whose general approach is quite compatible with the general definition of the term provided above, is Michael Perelman's Steal this Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity.[7] Perelman's work provides a political economy perspective that takes creativity, intellectual property and corporate power into account. He shows how corporations have erected a system of intellectual property rights to confiscate employees' exercise of creativity, with profound impacts on the economy, science and culture. In addition, Perelman shows that the rising importance of intellectual property has led to substantial theft and infringement of intellectual property, as corporations battle with one another to increase their market power, and to be first to come up with new products and services. One of the outcomes of the corporate appropriation of creativity, and of the rapid rise of intellectual property theft and infringements, is an excessive amount of litigation. Perelman considers these problems to be a major outcome of contemporary corporate capitalism, a state of affairs that he denounces as unjust and unsustainable.
Another work that is compatible with the explanation of technocapitalism provided above is Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.[8] In this book, Braverman argued that changes in production technology are influenced by the need of corporate management to control labor and labor processes. The fact that technology can be placed at the service of corporate power, to control work routines and production processes, in order to diminish workers' rights, is a powerful indicator that technology is neither "neutral" nor purely "functional", as some technologists believe. Although Braverman did not use the term technocapitalism in his work, his general approach is part of the line of thought related to this concept. Following up on Braverman's work but from a different perspective, education philosopher Douglas Kellner used the term in a chapter to discuss the relationship between technology and the capitalist state---along with the prospect for a post-modern theory of crises---from the perspective of the Frankfurt School.[9]
The term technocapitalism has been used by one author to denote aspects and ideas that diverge sharply from those explained above. Dinesh D'Souza, writing about Silicon Valley in an article, used the term to describe the corporate environment and venture capital relationships in a high tech-oriented local economy. His approach to the topic was consonant with that of business journals and the corporate management literature. Some newspaper articles have also used the term occasionally and in a very general sense, to denote the importance of advanced technologies in the economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
