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Fisher - RepliKant
"Fisher - RepliKant" treats capital as an abstract process of mutation and escape rather than as a merely managerial or institutional system.
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Core idea
The central claim is that capital should be understood as an inhuman process of abstraction rather than a humanly steerable institution. Meltdown names the way this process outpaces moral or political containment.
These texts work by describing markets, media systems, and social life as channels for accelerating abstraction. Capital behaves less like a policy object than like a self-intensifying circuit.
That matters because the section is trying to show how deterritorialization becomes historically real rather than remaining a philosophical slogan. The page belongs here when abstraction is presented as an operative force.
How to read this text
Read for the vocabulary of abstraction, escape, and process first. The page usually becomes clearer once capital is treated as a circuit rather than a classically economic object.
Notice where the argument leaves institutional critique and starts describing systems that exceed human command. That turn is the hinge of the section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 10
The axiomatic functions as a ubiquitous Zero, its principle: 1. a reduction of intensity (qualitative difference) or the specificity of the internal limits of its market (to an increasingly faceless currency) allows for 2. the extensive expansion of its external boundaries into a widened market (quantitative accumulation).
Definition · paragraph 8
The Sublime Moment of Technology is the déclenchement of a domain of disembodied gadgetry into a zone of their machinic deterritorialization, and as such is only a Moment of déclenchement in the strict empiricalproductive sense of a component cummin online: a relative speedingup (intensification) of relations and bifurcations or a putting into a more obvious flux (pure communication = φ).
Definition · paragraph 7
Pure war, singularities are caught in the crossfire of the disjunction between two virtual deaths: either the clothed event of the past (which is instantly terminated in its own obsolescence) or the naked eventuality of time flowing away from itself in its own impossible desperation. Baudrillard is correct in his analysis: Reason is the ghetto of the dead. Dead labour as capital out of control.
Definition · paragraph 7
We must, within the considerations of general economics, understand the posing of an aporia as merely an affect of the constitution or pluggingtogether of a desiringmachine (d.m. = conversion machine).
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.