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 in the readings primarily as a cultural theorist concerned with how late capitalism has moved from satirical representation to lived reality, particularly in his analysis of Kubrick's *2001* as prophetic rather than merely speculative. The excerpts suggest he's being mobilized to argue that contemporary experience has become "blank"—drained of critical distance or irony—which frames how we might understand AI and automation not as futural threats but as already-normalized conditions. His concept of depotentiated capital and the translation between financial and purchasing currencies seems relevant to how the course thinks about value, exchange, and the loss of critical perspective under computational logic.
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