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on Erik Olin Wright's class analysis

[...] three axes: property, authority, expertise. His view of class structure offers class locations at three levels, which do not always neatly overlap. Relations of property generate the class locations of employers, petit-bourgeois, and employees. Relations of authority generate the location…

—p.83 Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark
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perhaps the rise of finance is really just a symptom

One has to ask whether the ruling class presiding over this mode of production is still adequately described as capitalist. It seems no longer necessary to directly own the means of production. A remarkable amount of the valuation of the leading companies of our time consists not of tangible assets…

—p.79 by McKenzie Wark
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diachronic

diachronically, in terms of patterns of development through time

—p.77 by McKenzie Wark
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the California Ideology promised a universal liberation

The California Ideology emerged out of seemingly progressive movements of the counterculture in California in the mid to late twentieth century. Once again, repression played a role. Black militants of this period were systematically murdered or imprisoned. To give just one example, Angela Davis su…

—p.73 by McKenzie Wark
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hermeneutic

One cannot interpret the strangeness of this mode of production using the received hermeneutic conceptual categories, derived as they are from a critique of the relations of production of nineteenth-century steam-powered capitalism

—p.58 by McKenzie Wark
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