Not really making a claim about 'being mean' etc, more along the lines of D&G at their most paleoMarxist: "capitalism-in conformity with the movement by which it counteracts its own tendency-is continually drawing near the wall, but at the same time pushing the wall further away"
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...the absolutely decoded-deterritorialized is denied by the asymptotic nature of development here!
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Replying to @EBBerger @qdnoktsqfr
Not at all, there's nothing at all relativizing about an asymptote.
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger
Not sure if I'm just being daft but ... can you explain this a bit more?
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(Just not getting how a process can hit absolute deterritorialisation when its limit is asymptotic.)
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Replying to @qdnoktsqfr @EBBerger
Where does the "hitting" part come from? An absolute doesn't need to be reached to exist.
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... I think you guys are falling for a trick designed to prank Marxists. It's not as if capitalism "failing" to reach its internal limit is a practical criticism -- even if it perhaps mimics one. ...
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... Orbiting a black hole is highly preferable to falling into one, and this is entirely consistent with the black hole absolutely existing.
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... Zeno's Paradox demonstrates, rather than refutes, the existence -- and function -- of absolute zero. (D&G note the affinity of Capital and calculus.)
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger
'An absolute doesn't need to be reached to exist.' Doesn't that mean that everything else is nonetheless relative in relation to it?
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"Capitalism is relative deterritorialization" can indeed be translated confidently as "Capital is relatively not dead, though!" ...
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... The Marxian tautology repackaged as peanuts for the monkeys.
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