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WRAP THESIS Sawhney 1996
"WRAP THESIS Sawhney 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 51
Capitalism and Schizophrenia systematically follows Marx's theories of expansion and the limits capitalism sets upon itself, and affirms Marx's predictions of automation and abstraction. Marx's fundamental thesis lies in the discovery of the force capitalist production places on the creation and development of machinic flows: The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itsetf.
Definition · paragraph 42
Capitalism, on the other hand, is not at all territorial, even in its beginnings: its power of deterritorialization consists in taking as its object, not the earth, but "materialized labour", the commodity' (Deleuze & Guattari, ATP,, -p. 454).
Definition · paragraph 6
For'Freud, th& low level organization of the unconscious is subjected to high-level control through the universality of the Oedipus complex. By addressing the need for new philosophical instruments to understand capitalism, the thesis produces critiques of Marx and Freud, and advances a philosophy of economics by examining the function of axiomatics.
Stakes · paragraph 49
Deleuze and, Guattari suggest that the second synthesis, ' despotisnf, "all6wed for the possibility for capitalism, to germinate and propagate within the formation of economics, whereby limits within the disjunctive synthesis are abraded in order to let flows of capital circulate in the conjunctive deterritorialized-reterritorialized axiomatic of capitalism.
History · paragraph 2
Axiomatics: The Apparatus of Capitalism Deepak Narang Sawhney Thesis submitted for the Degree of Ph. D. University of Warwick Department of Philosophy May 1996
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.