"In Speculative Realist terms, what is necessary is to think the in-itself of capitalism outside of any correlation to the human. Ray Brassier has already hinted at this in his original “Nihil Unbound” article on Badiou, Deleuze & Guattari and Capitalism. For surely what all analyses of capitalism have presumed to date is the capitalist ‘for-us’ (construed in positive or negative terms), whereas capital is ultimately a machine which has almost no relation to humanity whatsoever, it intersects with us, it has us as moving parts, but it ultimately is not of or for-us. Capital properly thought is a vast inhuman form, a genuinely alien life form (in that it is entirely non-organic) of which we know all-too-little. A new investigation of this form must proceed precisely as an anti-anthropomorphic cartography, a study in alien finance, a Xenoeconomics."
Xenoeconomics and Capital Unbound
"Outside of a vitalist notion of an inhuman jouissance, (shared by the libidinal economists) the market delivers not a utopia of free-flowing desire but rather a perfect dystopia of the genuinely inhuman, a non-affective cold-machinism truly adequate to capital-in-itself. The irresistible inverse image of 9/11 presents itself: Instead of flying the planes into symbols of western capitalism, we plunge the financial-capitalistic contents of the towers into the human world itself, dissolving, sundering, shattering… "
Post-Land: The paradoxes of a speculative realist politics
Responses to above from K-punk (first here, then here, and finally here), from Owen (here), and from No Useless Leniency (here, then here).
Responses to the Continuing Financial Meltdown and Imminent Global Depression from :
Paul Virilio, from Alan Badiou, from Tronti, from Slavoj Zizek (It's Good to Talk!!), from Jacques-Alain Miller, and lastly IT's summary of a conference on the crisis with contributions from Chris Harman, Alan Freeman, Robin Blackburn, Jacob Middleton, Alex Callinicos, and Peter Gowan.
