Those who experienced 2001 back in the 1960s might feel, now, that they have experienced late capitalism twice, the first time as a film, the second as a banalized everyday reality. But what was once satiric prophecy is now blank realism, d…Cash is depotentiated capital: an enterprise cannot realise its capital, only a 'private' individual can, but this is effectively a translation from one kind of currency (fluid finance capital) to another (purchasing capital). In the proces…
Mark Miller
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Mark Miller appears here primarily as a theorist of capital and its material forms, particularly how money functions as a depotentiated or suspended force within late capitalism. The excerpts position Miller's framework alongside a critique of how satirical predictions (referencing Kubrick's 2001) have calcified into banal reality, suggesting his work helps explain the mechanisms by which capital loses its transformative power and becomes merely transactional. His distinction between fluid finance capital and purchasing capital is being mobilized to understand how systems of exchange strip away intentionality and critical distance, making him crucial to the seminar's examination of automation and abstraction in contemporary economic life.
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