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A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged
"A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged" treats capital as an abstract process of mutation and escape rather than as a merely managerial or institutional system.
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Core idea
The central claim is that capital should be understood as an inhuman process of abstraction rather than a humanly steerable institution. Meltdown names the way this process outpaces moral or political containment.
These texts work by describing markets, media systems, and social life as channels for accelerating abstraction. Capital behaves less like a policy object than like a self-intensifying circuit.
That matters because the section is trying to show how deterritorialization becomes historically real rather than remaining a philosophical slogan. The page belongs here when abstraction is presented as an operative force.
How to read this text
Read for the vocabulary of abstraction, escape, and process first. The page usually becomes clearer once capital is treated as a circuit rather than a classically economic object.
Notice where the argument leaves institutional critique and starts describing systems that exceed human command. That turn is the hinge of the section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 8
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged Vast Abrupt | 8 “What are you doing after the orgy?” asks Gudrun Ensslin. But science is in no way reducible to this centralist totalitarian aspect, an aspect through which it is congruent with the discourse of knowledge and with the intrinsic imperialism of capital.
Definition · paragraph 18
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged Vast Abrupt | 18 being put in motion. This is a decadence-movement of national unity that tends to bring forth multiplicities, and these multiplicities are far from merely being what they were before the formation of national unities. This movement can seem like the adversary of capitalism, but it belongs to the decadence of values, which is contemporaneous with it.
Definition · paragraph 10
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged Vast Abrupt | 10 rationalization and totalitarianism, or the means to multiply inventive realities. It is to be expected that science gets around itself cunningly.
Definition · paragraph 26
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged Vast Abrupt | 26 [The phrase here on y va can mean “let’s go”, “want to go”, and “here we 19. go”, depending on the emphasis of its performance as a question, command, or invitation — TN].
Afterlife · paragraph 3
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged Vast Abrupt | 3 consciousness. If theoretical and practical thought continues to imagine itself as pedagogy, then it necessarily repeats these aforementioned traits.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.