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Modernity's Fertility Problem - Jacobite
"Modernity's Fertility Problem - Jacobite" routes capital through finance, infrastructure, or modernity-writing to show how abstract systems rewrite historical time.
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Core idea
These texts describe modernity as a field governed by capitalized abstraction, infrastructural redesign, and the pressures of finance. Historical time becomes inseparable from technical and monetary process.
They work by connecting money, architecture, infrastructure, and world-order narratives to a broader picture of runaway modernization. Finance is treated as a driver of temporal and social reformatting.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's most concrete routes into abstraction. Capital becomes visible here through circuits of money, urban form, and historical reorganization.
How to read this text
Read for the material carriers of abstraction first: finance, architecture, protocol, or infrastructure. Those details keep the page from becoming a loose metaphor of speed.
Watch how the text narrates historical time under pressure from capitalized systems. That is where the section's larger stakes come into view.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
Surely they are not infinite. And what will they do in Singapore? Well, engage in the finance and marketing rat-race and depress their fertility to 0.78, wasting valuable genes just so your property prices don’t go down.
Stakes · paragraph 4
Christianity – especially under Catholic inspiration – has connected modernity to sterility for as long as modernity has been noticed. A number of crucial factors have nevertheless changed. Since the early years of the new millennium, secular liberals have begun to notice the connection between religiosity and fertility, and to express gathering concern about its partisan political consequences.
Stakes · paragraph 2
Modernity’s Fertility Problem – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517112256/https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/20/modernitys-fertility-problem/[3/26/2023 11:01:33 AM] Region’ which retains significant trappings of autonomy), are regularly invoked as socio- political models.
History · paragraph 4
Modernity’s Fertility Problem – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517112256/https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/20/modernitys-fertility-problem/[3/26/2023 11:01:33 AM] fostered by urban life might, to the counter-factual imagination, have been in some way restricted to males, but as a matter of actual historical fact the dereliction of traditional social roles has proceeded without serious limitation, with variation in speed, but no indication of alternative direction.
History · paragraph 6
Modernity’s Fertility Problem – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220517112256/https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/20/modernitys-fertility-problem/[3/26/2023 11:01:33 AM] TAGS DEMOGRAPHICS FEMINISM FERTILITY MODERNITY NEOREACTION NICK LAND S. PHILIP MORGAN SARAH R.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.