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WRAP THESIS Beddoes 1996
"WRAP THESIS Beddoes 1996" 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 17
In the West, the decline of industrial capital and the emergence of information technology has transformed the labour market: physical strength and brute force have lost their value, to be replaced by manoeuvrability, flexibility, ease of transition between different areas of life, interactive skills.
Definition · paragraph 23
This allows Kant to say that time is empirically real, whilst for Leibniz it is only ever ideal. Moreover, for Kant, the universal status of mathematics, and the claim of a single time of which all different times are parts, is no longer guaranteed by pre-established harmony gifted by God, nor does it `remain when abstraction is made of all subjective conditions of its intuition.
Stakes · paragraph 9
Tom Conley, (London: Athlone) DB, 1979 Deleuze, G., and Bene, C., Superpositions, (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit) DG, 1972,1984 Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F., L'Anti-Oedipe: Capitalisme et Schizophr6nie (Paris, Les Editions de Minuit), trans. Anti us: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, tr.
History · paragraph 2
Breeding Demons A critical enquiry into the relationship between Kant and Deleuze with specific reference to women Diane J. Beddoes A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick Department of Philosophy 16th May 1996
History · paragraph 2
Beddoes A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick Department of Philosophy 16th May 1996
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Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.