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I mentioned the difficulty of extrapolating from a system in which the outputs become the inputs of the production process earlier; this problem more or less describes the futility of modelling with fields that are relativistic, self-acting and self-generating. Everything has to happen instantaneously, which paradoxically means that the model is static, and therefore reversible.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
The solution, Kelly said, was to invent new goods and services faster than they could slide down the curve to worthlessness. Instead of trying to defend prices, you had to assume they would collapse over time, but build a business in the gap between one and zero. You had, he warned, to ‘skate to the edge of chaos’, to exploit the free knowledge customers donate when they interact with websites.
PostCapitalism
Paul Mason
In this sense, Rancière sees anarchic politics as only a means of reforming and redistributing the order of the police, ultimately concluding that it is a rare occurrence which never persists beyond the policing that survives and subdues it. If we accept this tamed and restrained understanding of anarchy, we must also accept that the aesthetic and anaesthetic administration of the world is an essential part of it. Is this what life will always consist of, the choice between being policed and being eradicated?
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
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