title, the original work is available through ill-will
what: burns - ten theses
kicker: this semantically lightweight article gives us a pointless manifesto that somehow stretches into ten points which all essentially state that global collapse premediated by bourgeoise greed will have to be met with both local cadres and translocal organizations?
type: borderline theory
direction: polemic
concept: #collapse
theme: industrial
verdict: disavowal
standard: under / tiqqun
salience: mood b
style: torsion (⟁)
favorite chapters: point 4, point 9
least favorite: point 6
score: 1/10
observation 1:
synkar’s review:
the unconscious libidinal underlayer or otherwise known as the memetic mesh that is updated through vicarious causation and tertiary synchronization across social media has also affected a majority of biopolitical and conflict-oriented writings, where most of them, based off an accurate but overrepresented understanding of american cultural developments, are arguing that the world-interior of capital is going to collapse.
this manifesto-esque writing is no different than the rest, save for the fact that it is in a theoretically outdated stance of speculative reactivity to perceived updating phenomena, classic to a subset of political aggetators that envision conflict as an external relation deterministically imposed through a world-lens, but offers a few insightful remarks on a practical level.
the basic idea that apparatuses will take over state administration and planning can be dated back to moldbug's political theology, transferred into leftism through lazzaratto. this very text is a blank repetition of his otherwise more studied general narrative, encapsulated by conceps in tandem lacking substantial novelty, in classic programmatic fashion that speaks to an invisible "we" about non-existing strategies.
it speaks of a critical analysis it doesnt posit, about "collapse conditions and processes", classically defining it along an axis of diminishing resource availability, disruption of existing hierarchies, preparation for collapse as depicted in paranoid american media, and the one concept it does posit, "staggered collapse" which essentially calls upon the subject to orient itself along broader (and likely more) diffuse lines, that essentially to survive in a world where you extract along its periphery will eventually demand that the periphery requires of you to approach your own conditions of circulation, due to the fact the elite are succtioning the conditions for maintenance away from the middle class, which will have to re-orient its understanding of debt as a relation in order to sequentially move up the ranks in accordance to the way that precarity and collection of resources and relations demands that you start to become aware of collapse as an actual ontological experience, a domain of the world that strikes you as a systemic demon, a power that ruptures your conditons, that essentially recalls on you all your posited freedoms so that you may reumburse the world.
if anything, it draws on collapse as an image of agency, the agency to re-exist in the world as a subject that isnt reified into a position of class precarity, somebody who goes out into the world to prevent the piling of resources or sudden lack thereof to bury them in their state of incessant conformity to regulation as a principle. the moment the elite (the regulators) pre-empt and reconsider the bounds of their contract to you, that is the moment the signal is emmitted that your sphere of influence, the one you were relationally drawing on, is now directly bounded onto you.
the relationship flips from a call towards the exocapitalist system to transfer whatever circulatory value it possess in your hands, to a signal that suddenly in a sense you are recalled in the position of an auxiliary between entities. if the middle class understands its position as de-facto grounded and yet relative, this is certainly a shakable spot to be in and in that sense, the middle class beckons with the world once more or has to reconsider its own position of extraction relative to its infraction. the text recommends a re-consideration of consumerism against production, but i find this call here poorly phrased given that circulation is far more about relation than the state of the act. consumption is not nearly as tracable of an economic condition or state to be in than the act of circulatory recalling, not necessarily feedback mechanisms but more specifically drawn links or total relational spans.
this "translocal coordination structure" is just the effect of tourism on human resources management, the idea of coordination as a strategy for the form-of-life itself, but isnt the result of a globalist inference or a return to the third world, its more about the way in which accumulation eventually reaches types of monopolies or hyperopolies that withdraw in such a way that they begin to crash and parasite from other withdrawal units. this is why it makes no sense to frame this economic problem as a conflict between bubbles, since most of these withdrawal bubbles are in different positions in the same matrix, where staggering is actually influence over lesser conditions, not necessarily even third-world ones but in-between states. withdrawal is dispersed according to different lines and then re-called by the will of the unit who has the most withdrawing capacity, which was phrased in point 2 clearly with the idea that the elite are primarily concerned with protecting their "potential to withdraw" in a certain sense, their accumulatory power of circulatory exchange and the networks that particularly support or bypass opposition to unabided sequentialization or grammatization of economic gains.