I think there is an implicit ontology baked into capitalist social relations, and it's a contradictory "practical ontology" that simultaneously upholds a dualism between subject and object, self and other, the intensive and the extensive, mind and matter, etc. while unfolding through time as a tendency towards a monist subsumption of the former (subject, etc.) …
Capital, Buddhism, and the Open-Empty Future
Financial capitalization has a certain uncertain relationship to uncertainty. On the one hand, it has to be somewhat certain about the future income stream it expects from its present investments, otherwise there would be little point (from the capitalist's perspective) to engage in the productive activity; it would be deemed too risky. On the other …
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On the Mutual Non-existence of Capitalism and Communism
If "Full Communism," understood as communism brought to its highest measure, is truly superior to all "logically prior" modes of production which historically precede it (such as slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and socialism), then it must "inclusively transcend" them all, which is to say that it must contain them all as partial abstractions of itself, which …
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Sleeplessness and Wakefulness under 24/7 Capitalism
I don't think I've ever not been somewhat of a night owl in terms of my sleep schedule. For a long time I've been taught to internalize these habits as something inherently wrong with me (lazy, irresponsible, disorganized), or I attribute it to some condition (I was majorly depressed throughout my teenage years, making it …
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Science & Religion Beyond Capital & Labor
The forces of science and religion, do not just have the potential to be, but have always-already been, in a constant mutual interaction since the genesis of either concept. In fact, to the extent that the present definition of the one makes absent the present definition of the other, they are known to be mutually …
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Nirvāṇa/Saṃsāra; Communism/Capitalism
A general strategy that a Madhyamika (agent of the Middle Way, i.e. a meddling middler) may deploy once they identify a pair of contradictory forces at play, is neither to affirm the possibility of resolving the contradiction in those terms, nor to abandon those terms, but to see how those terms actually compliment each other. …
Holopoiesis 