Capital

“All wealth that can ever be produced belongs to capital in its capacity as interest-bearing capital, and everything that it has received up till now is only a first instalment for its ‘all-engrossing’ appetite. By its own inherent laws, all surplus labor that the human race can supply belongs to it. Moloch.” – Capital, Volume 3, Chapter 24
Capital isn’t simply owned assets, or means of production, or money (if it was reducible to one of these things, we could theoretically extend capital infinitely into the past, a nonsensical proposition), but something other than them that is nonetheless identifiable to them in this historical moment. It allows convertability between them, empowers their circulation; basically, it moves beneath them, hence the “general formula for capital” being the M-C-M’ loop in itself, and not a distinct moment in it. — Edmund Berger 13d18[For] Marx [...] the capitalist is but “capital personified”, a possessed figure whose “soul is the soul of capital”. If the bourgeoisie cannot exercise moral autonomy, it is because “capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour”. This, not market competition for the sake of market competition, is the real occulted kernel lurking at the heart of the capitalist mode of production.— Edmund Berger 8n18The objective function of capital is a transformation of past profits into new ones— Primož Krašovec «The Alien Capital» 2017"Capital is at every level an eerie entity: conjured out of nothing, capital nevertheless exerts more influence than any allegedly substantial entity."
— Mark Fisher, «The Weird and the Eerie»Like Power, capital isn’t abstract: it is abstraction itself. — Krašovec «The Alien Capital» 11jl18the fundamental condition of capital [is] nothing other than an explicit aggression against the masses— Nick Land, «Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest»capital is not some cyberpositive miracle, but an ever-widening negative feedback loop which can barely outpace its own self-extinction.— Gregory Marks "@thewastedworld" on Twitter, Aug 28, 2019
== Definitions ==
Nick Land defines capital as the intelligenic process, i.e. as intelligence production, and states that in terms of instrumental rationality ‘capital’ is too intelligent to kill.
Investopedia r. d18: "Capital is a term for financial assets
 or their financial value (such as funds held in deposit accounts), as 
well as the tangible factors of production including equipment used in 
environments such as factories and other manufacturing facilities."
* "Capital (economics), a factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing other goods" Wikip. r.d18
* "Social capital broadly refers to those factors of effectively functioning social groups that include such things as interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity. However, the many views of this complex subject make a single definition difficult." Wikip. r.d18
* "Symbolic capital, in Pierre Bourdieu's theory; a type of capital correlated to social capital, that comes into existence once it is recognized" Wikip. r.d18
== Branching ==
* See: Capitalism; Capital as spirit.
* See specifically: The agency of Capital
* Noticed authors: Marx; Evola; Nick Land; Berger.Category:Economics
Category:Wealth
Category:Capitalism
Category:Marxism