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n0 values
"n0 values" treats capital as an abstract process of mutation and escape rather than as a merely managerial or institutional system.
Archive condition
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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 1
K-punk is not an argument against authority (never trust an ideologist), it is immediately effective whenever authority structures are dismantled (i.e. marketized). 4. k-punk is participation culture, melting production and consumption into continuously exciting intensity-circuits.
Definition · paragraph 1
It is ficto-commercial rhizomatix, operating not by transgression of social codes but through an anti-social collective process synonymous with cultural lateralization. K-punk is not an argument against authority (never trust an ideologist), it is immediately effective whenever authority structures are dismantled (i.e. marketized).
Definition · paragraph 1
There are no values, only fictional quantities. 1. All intensities are positive.
Definition · paragraph 1
4/25/23, 2:59 PM n0 values https://web.archive.org/web/20041207213710/http://www.k-punk.net/k-punk.net/novalues.html 1/2 The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20041207213710/http://www.k-punk.net:80/k-punk.net/… N0 VALUES k-punk k0mmunik k099 0=9.
Definition · paragraph 2
4/25/23, 2:59 PM n0 values https://web.archive.org/web/20041207213710/http://www.k-punk.net/k-punk.net/novalues.html 2/2 9=0. There is no redemption, only escape.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.