Essays
Long-form writing on political economy, philosophy, and the world as it is.
No Outside Permanent Exploitation in the Age of Surveilance Capital
1 Introduction: Permanent Exploitation The nineteenth-century census counted you. The twenty-first-century algorithm becomes you. This is not a rhetorical flourish but the central analytical claim of what follows. The …
Algorithmic Management and the Logistics of Exploitation
“The circulation of commodities is the starting point of capital. The production of commodities, their circulation, and that more developed form of their circulation called commerce, these form the historical ground-work from which it rises.”
— Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I
The Acceleration of Decay
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” — Antonio Gramsci