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"reza-negarestani-drafting-the-inhuman-conjectures-on-capitalism-and-organic-necrocracy-1" 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 3
Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy 184 inhuman emancipation is the tortuous economy of dissipation inherent to capital- ism as its partially repressed desire for meltdown.5 Although the economy of dissipa- tion can be captured by humans through a libidinal materialist participation with the techno-capitalist singularity, it ultimately escapes the gravity of humans and entails their dissolution into the inorganic exteriority.
Definition · paragraph 17
Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy 198 ic differentiation and temporary survival. Yet the contingent and undeniably scarce in- stances of organic life and transient survival imply that the thanatropic regression is merely unconditional in regard to the inevitable unilateralizing power of death, but in terms of its ‘course of conduction’ it is conditional.
Stakes · paragraph 1
182 13 Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy Reza Negarestani ‘And beyond all this we have yet to disturb the peace of this world in still another way..’. 1 Quod exitus sectabor iter?
Stakes · paragraph 7
Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy 188 participative front where the energetic opportunities of the conservative organism can be utilized as accelerative and programmatic vectors in the direction of the aforemen- tioned emancipation.
Stakes · paragraph 9
Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy 190 ciency neither guarantees an immaculate future for enlightenment nor provides ade- quate reasons as to why senseless human participations in capitalism must be stopped.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.