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The development of capitalism introduces a radical change in the relationship between state and capital. While it is true that they have always been in a relationship of mutual dependence, from the end of the 19th century, and especially from the beginning of the 20th, the relative autonomy of the state vis-à-vis the economy (Poulantzas) and of the economy vis-à-vis the diminishes, and the two realities start being integrated into a single two-headed machine.
Political Conditions for a New World Order
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In his 1958 monograph, The Computer and The Brain, von Neumann speculates that, some important differences aside, the machine he built with digital circuits appeared to work in a similar way to the neural circuits of the brain. What were his insights about the workings of neurons based on? Little more than what could be inferred from the pioneering work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
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The more value is extracted, the fewer opportunities people have to create and exchange value through any means other than participating in the systems of domination and control that have robbed them in the first place.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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