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Fisher - SF Capital (2001)
"Fisher - SF Capital (2001)" 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 2
While Kubrick no doubt remained, up to his death, the very image of the modernist creator, the name 'Stanley Kubrick' is now a brand name, a commodity, whose connotations - even when they include a certain disdain for 'the market' are highly marketable. Star Wars is metonymically implicated in late capitalism in a way that 2001 never quite could be.
Definition · paragraph 2
springboard for joint promotions used to market films,' exulted Advertising Age before the film's release, noting the elaborate plugs for Pan-Am, Sheraton Hotels, Apple Computer, Anheuser-Busch and Omni magazine. The shift Miller identifies between how audiences responded to 2001 in 1968 and how we would expect them to react 'now' - is a near-perfect illustration of Frederic Jameson's theses about consumer culture and multinational capitalism.
Definition · paragraph 2
The shift Miller identifies between how audiences responded to 2001 in 1968 and how we would expect them to react 'now' - is a near-perfect illustration of Frederic Jameson's theses about consumer culture and multinational capitalism.
History · paragraph 1
<<TRANSMATHOME SF CAPITAL Mark Fisher (2001) k-punk unhome kontakt Do you really think SF Capital allows monkey flake to make decisions it classifies as important? Ccru, Swarmmachines Markets, desire and science fiction are all part of the infrastructure Nick Land, 'Cybergothic' Now I feel I've been in space twice Alexi Leonov, the first person to walk in outer space, after seeing 2001 After American Graffiti, George [Lucas] had wanted to do Apocalypse Now.
History · paragraph 1
<<TRANSMATHOME SF CAPITAL Mark Fisher (2001) k-punk unhome kontakt Do you really think SF Capital allows monkey flake to make decisions it classifies as important?
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.