December 9, 1973. In an article published in the Corriere della Sera Pasolini laments the acculturation brought about by capitalism. In particular, he deplores the loss of the “peripheral cultures which, until a few years ago had their own life assured – essentially a free life, even if within the poorest, or even miserable, peripheral…
Category: Capitalism
10 – 3 ≠ 7; 10 – 3 = 13
Should we have learned indigenous mathematics or, more exactly, should we remember them – for we were all once indigenous peoples – the world would be different and probably better than it is today. For the ontology behind modern mathematics and, more broadly, modern science, is anything but neutral. Put differently, reality is not just…
Perceptual Capitalism
As we have written elsewhere, capitalism is not only a mode of economic production based on dissymmetrical relations of production established to ensure the exploitation of the majority by a minority through the extraction of labour force from human bodies and minds alike (in addition to the exploitation of nature through the extraction of energy…
On Conceptual Noise and De-territorialisation
Due to human inactivity during the lockdown, in late March mountain goats were seen roaming the streets of a Welsh town. Events like this have provoked four different types of reaction in the social media. Some (A) celebrate such events (too naively?) as a return of nature to places from where it had been exiled….
Technology & the Future // Carlos
Is modern technology inevitable? Does it represent an objective improvement of earlier forms of technology? Do different types of technology all fall under the same category? There are distinct types of technology, not only particular technologies falling under one and the same concept. Take an indigenous bow and a missile, for example. Putting them under…
Cosmic Labour Force // Carlos
Among other things, capitalism is a mode of economic production based on dissymmetrical relations of production that allow the exploitation of the majority by a minority through the extraction of work force from our minds and bodies. But who is susceptible of becoming work force under capitalism? Almost everything – not just you and me….
Capitalism’s Five Pillars // Sofya
Its immense complexity notwithstanding, it can be said that capitalism stands on five major pillars on which I would like to briefly write here. These pillars are: private property, human exceptionalism, rationality, progress, and hard work(❖). Private property In order for it to exist, capitalism must, in the first place, appropriate land. Colonists in North-America…
When the World is Nothing but Dust // Sofya
A Question of Mentality Mentality is what makes people see, accept, and think some things conceivable, but not others. It is the basis of people’s thought, something they do not question—the condition of possibility of their ideas and actions. What is modern mentality? It is, among other things, what allows deforestation and the extinction of…