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Anonimity
"Anonimity" 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 1
Th e animism of capital is a resource which grants the neolib eral subject access to (self)trans form- ab il ity and perhaps even more import antly, follow ing the imper at ive of fl ex ib il ity and ecolo gical beha viour, with the means to adapt.
Definition · paragraph 1
Th is loss of anonym ity, of turning a pluri po tent person Animism and Capitalism During the further course of the twen ti eth century animism ceased to func tion as modern ity’s excluded counter- image.
Definition · paragraph 1
Aspe 2013 ). Th e ‘return’ of animism to the centre of modern- ity essen tially proves to be a result of compu- ter iz a tion and the exper i ence of medial envir on ments and their feed back loops. Th e horizon of neolib eral ideo lo gical mobil isa tion is, as Achille Mbembe recently proposed, an iden tity of capital and animism ( Mbembe 2015 : 17).
Definition · paragraph 1
Th is loss of anonym ity, of turning a pluri po tent person Animism and Capitalism During the further course of the twen ti eth century animism ceased to func tion as modern ity’s excluded counter- image. In the middle of the twen ti eth century Claude Lévi-Strauss declared the ‘archaic illu sion’ to be over ( Lévi-Strauss 1949 ), and this end was asso ci ated with the dissol u tion of substance- based think ing and its dual istic oppos i tions of man and nature, body and soul, even life and non- life.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.