Month: August 2004

ANTI-CAPITAL (SOME MODEST BEGINNINGS) (k-punk)

August 7, 2004

I suppose it’s the possibility that by championing microcapitalism over macrocapitalism you are championing Thatcherism over old-school socialism. Well, you’re certainly moving beyond ‘old-school socialism’ but are you really back into Thatcherism? For all sorts of reasons, many of them presented on recent threads at hyperstition, I’m less than happy with using the term ‘micro-capitalism’. … More ANTI-CAPITAL (SOME MODEST BEGINNINGS) (k-punk)

Magic vs sorcery / capitalism vs hyperstition (Hyperstition)

August 3, 2004

( A few tentative thoughts/ questions/ probes… Luke emails me with a quote from Grant Morrison (confirming once again that I really must check Morrison out). “… I’ve been obsessed with the corporate world–and the whole magic thing, I’ve been fed up with the occult, as you say, that whole aspect of it, and I … More Magic vs sorcery / capitalism vs hyperstition (Hyperstition)

D/G: CAPITALISM/ THE THING/ FICTIONAL QUANTITIES (Hyperstition)

August 2, 2004

In the interests of accumulating resources, I think it is worthwhile reproducing the key passages from Anti-Oedipus on capitalism, fictional quantities and the Thing. ‘The segmentary territorial machine makes uses of scission to exorcise fusion, and impedes the concentration of power by maintaining the organs of chieftanry in a relationship of impotence with the group; … More D/G: CAPITALISM/ THE THING/ FICTIONAL QUANTITIES (Hyperstition)