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Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Copacetic Corollary of Capitalism

I was rereading the new imperialism by Harvey recently and I was thinking about how helpful his way of describing things is. He said that there is, on the one hand, kind of the logic of capital, which is at least theoretically global or planetary,. And then there's the territorial logic, you know, which intersects with capital to create patterns where capitalism sometimes works in a more abstract form. This is another example, I think, of the sort of capitalist realism, which finds it's easy and really copacetic corollary and race in the so-called race realism of the right. The other techno-libertarians have this pretense that the internet is going to be all

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