James W reviews McKenzie Wark's Capital is Dead. Nearly a year has passed since the publication of McKenzie Wark’s short book Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? More than half of that time has been spent in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis which has impacted the course of history in wa ...
Yeah, I think that was the reasonable part. But then the explanation she starts into about "the vector" comes across as deeply uninformed. I think it's a failure to adequately understand the nature of contemporary technology, and then elevating it to essential godhood while arguing that no one can argue against the empirical sciences. I agree with the critiques as does the review, but then the whole argument of the book goes right off the rails.
Yeah, I think that was the reasonable part. But then the explanation she starts into about "the vector" comes across as deeply uninformed. I think it's a failure to adequately understand the nature of contemporary technology, and then elevating it to essential godhood while arguing that no one can argue against the empirical sciences. I agree with the critiques as does the review, but then the whole argument of the book goes right off the rails.