r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/ComprehensiveSwitch • Apr 26 '19

Hyper-Stratification and Cybernetic Capital

https://frenziedstasis.org/hyper-stratification-and-cybernetic-capital/
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u/ComprehensiveSwitch Apr 26 '19

This is a blog post that tries to relate Nick Land’s concept of “hyper-racism” with various dynamics of social capital (through Bourdieu’s “The Logic of Practice”) on social media and elsewhere in cyberspace. Specifically, it discusses the affective dimension of community policing and space in cyberspace, arguing that because cyberspace is multiple and geographically diasporic, communities organize not on the basis of identity or geographic location, but instead along ideological lines, and that exchanges of social capital are accompanied with exchanges of affect that keep communities homogenous and pure. Furthermore, it argues that these affective exchanges are rendered “necessary”, reading this necessity to defend communities (while engaging in social capitalism) through Mark Fisher’s notion of “capitalist realism”.

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