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Capital Is Dead: from Capitalism to Vectoralism - 13 Editora

Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019; O Capital Morreu), by McKenzie Wark, presents a provocative hypothesis: industrial capitalism is no longer the dominant system, but has been replaced by another mode of production based on information control. Published by Verso, the essay introduces the concept of “vectoralism” to describe this new economic order. The object of the […]

13 Editora

neil 🍄Nov 6, 2022

@adamgreenfield Really interested to hear what you think. Still finding my feet in this area. But seeing the top-to-bottom ICT stack as the latest evolution of capitalism and then as a useful site of struggle chimes (though I work in ICT so...). Similar to McKenzie Wark's #Vectoralism. I like @ntnsndr 's [[Governable Stacks against Digital Colonialism]] on this too.

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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Apr 30, 2019

@Tizzie #McKenzieWark is by far one of my favorite media theorists. I've found their #vectoralism frame is super helpful in understanding a bunch of stuff... :)

Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Jan 12, 2019

Try to make sense of the dynamics of #vectoralism through the lens of #capitalism, and you're going to have a bad time...

http://thephilosophersmeme.com/2016/10/27/on-vectoralism-and-the-meme-alliance/

http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html

Landed Property ≠ Capital Property ≠ Intellectual Property

On Vectoralism & the Meme Alliance's General Strike

We have seen in recent months the blossoming of a protest movement in Weird Facebook, a Meme Alliance of users and memepages wearing pink profile-pictures -- Facebook flags upside-down, signaling S.O.S. -- demanding satisfaction for Zuckerberg’s censorship of their content via automated moderation systems. Though their efforts have served as a coming-out of sorts for meme-scene activists, the failure of the Meme Alliance’s tactics to register demands a reconsideration of the terrain of struggle.

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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Dec 20, 2018

@Steve Some real estate, some capital, and some IP...

#Pastoralism #Capitalism #Vectoralism

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Christian Bundy Apr 25, 2018

@mattcropp Also, am I right to draw parallels between #vectoralism and Dmytri Kleiner's thoughts on #counterantidisintermediation?

http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediation

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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Apr 25, 2018

@christianbundy Wark's framework is a little challenging to grok, but it has really helped me make sense of a lot of the dynamics surrounding #platformcoop stuff, particularly the idea of #Vectoralism.

Very worth digging through. :P

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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Apr 13, 2018

@kdsch Among other things, his analysis of "#vectoralism" is a really useful lens for understanding the social media crisis, contemporary intra-elite class conflicts, etc. From 2004: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html

Wark, A Hacker Manifesto

Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Jan 21, 2018

#Instagram "Slow dripping" likes. https://qz.com/1179432/instagram-allegedly-withholds-likes-to-addict-users-and-keep-them-coming-back-for-more/

#ethicaldesign #vectoralpower #vectoralism

Instagram CTO says they do not withhold “likes” to keep users coming back for more

Drip-feeding likes may drive users to compulsively checking Instagram

Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Dec 28, 2017

@emily In the last year, McKenzie Wark has had a lot of influence on my thinking about platforms via their analysis of #vectoralism as a thing separate from #capitalism, as well as the sorts of politics that arise from that differentiation. A Hacker Manifesto, written in 2004, rocked my world and yielded some very prescient insights into contemporary politics: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html

Birbsite: https://twitter.com/mckenziewark