Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

The capitalist state, he wrote, “is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.”

these minerals must stay in the ground

to ensure that a potentially powerful majority cannot recognize itself, being split into separate and competing factions from which a handful of representatives are allowed conspicuous entry into the meritocracy.

the capture of time, about disempowerment and depersonalized connectedness.

The unspoken truth is that as internet access and use expands, economic inequality is heightened, not diminished.

Social media provides the illusion of deep relationships. So long as people don’t really know each other, the work is never going to go that far.

The West, he writes, exports its economic and cultural models everywhere in the name of universality

“annihilating nihilism,” in which the disintegration of long-standing forms of social solidarity are inseparable from epidemics of depression, addiction, and suicide.

“Emancipatory politics always consist in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.”