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Where a socialist analysis, grounded in material realities, explains that capitalism is a system guided by internal logics that require dispossession and exploitation,
Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The diagram is a real relation of power, yet equally an abstract machine whose reality is established by power, and configured by the intersection between the histories of both power and the sciences of government which depend on it. Schemata of management do not come into actual operation by their own power, but by the power that actualizes them, a power which itself may be caught in, even addicted to, its own machinations. Such is the case with the dominant machine that cancerously only produces itself: capital.
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