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The Atomization Trap - Jacobite
"The Atomization Trap - 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
Stakes · paragraph 3
It is possible to be still cruder without sacrificing much reality. When considered as rigid designations, Atomization, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Modernity name exactly the same thing. In the domain of public policy (and beyond it), privatization addresses the same directory.
Stakes · paragraph 3
Whatever it was that happened to Western Christianity in the Renaissance unleashed capitalism upon the world. It is possible to be still cruder without sacrificing much reality. When considered as rigid designations, Atomization, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Modernity name exactly the same thing.
History · paragraph 3
The Atomization Trap – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220520105237/https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/06/atomization/[3/26/2023 11:03:34 AM] atomization – was made fate. Six years after Special Providence (2001) came God and Gold, which reinforced the Anglo- American and capitalistic threads of the narrative.
History · paragraph 3
Six years after Special Providence (2001) came God and Gold, which reinforced the Anglo- American and capitalistic threads of the narrative. The boundaries between socio-economic and religious history were strategically melted, in a way pioneered by Max Weber, Werner Sombart, and – more critically – by numerous Catholic thinkers who have identified, and continue to identify, the essence of modernity as a hostile religious power.
History · paragraph 2
The Atomization Trap – Jacobite https://web.archive.org/web/20220520105237/https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/06/atomization/[3/26/2023 11:03:34 AM] Now try it differently: “Hands up everyone who hates atomization, but this time without looking around.” Was the decision-process – perhaps ironically – a little slower this time?
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.