Capital as Autonomous Will

“It is possible that all humanity is only a phase of development of a certain species of animal of limited duration”[1]. Or a certain type of will of limited duration. Space-time compression is the emergence of industrial singularities that move beyond the individual frame of reference, becoming scalar abstractions ranging from collective arrangements (joint stock companies) to informational-industrial complexes. The unifying aspect of this is capital as an abstracting force.

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The Levelling Tendency

Every revolution and settlement has centred egalitarianism as the ideological archetype. “The human species is a single-status moral community”[1]. This goes beyond political ideology, expanding into cultural, religious and individual domains. A legal infrastructure has grown from the basis of universal human rights, endlessly developing new modi operandi based on self-referential criteria that moves beyond the nation-state. Identity is expressed in a comparative matrix of dividuated[2] parameters. Birth and biology are plasticised as mere tools or inconveniencies to be modulated.

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