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zombiemakers
"zombiemakers" treats capital as an abstract process of mutation and escape rather than as a merely managerial or institutional system.
Archive condition
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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 2
From its very inception, Capital has made zombies - the proletarian factory worker is the living dead, and Sarkon has perfected the technique by developing catatonia as a libidinal commodity. The problem, from the point of view of the capitalist socius, is that the Cybergoths prefer becoming-unlife to being vital.
Definition · paragraph 2
Technonihilism shades into a cool acceptance of schizophrenia as the virtual but always inhibited destination of capitalism. From its very inception, Capital has made zombies - the proletarian factory worker is the living dead, and Sarkon has perfected the technique by developing catatonia as a libidinal commodity.
Definition · paragraph 2
From its very inception, Capital has made zombies - the proletarian factory worker is the living dead, and Sarkon has perfected the technique by developing catatonia as a libidinal commodity.
Definition · paragraph 2
The problem, from the point of view of the capitalist socius, is that the Cybergoths prefer becoming-unlife to being vital. Zombies demand more electronic voodoo and, given Sarkontinuum, there's no limit to what they can get... - Dr Linda Trent (MVU)
Stakes · paragraph 2
The as yet unsubstantiated rumours of Sarkon's disintegration into madness suggest that Sarkon himself has reached such a revelation. Technonihilism shades into a cool acceptance of schizophrenia as the virtual but always inhibited destination of capitalism.
Appears in sections
Capital, Meltdown, and Cybernetic Modernity Primary section
Capitalist abstraction, deterritorialization, cybernetics, and the archive's account of runaway modernity.