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the myth of scarcity inspo/anti-capitalism

The time is past due when hackers must come together with workers and farmers--with all of the producers of the world--to liberate productive and inventive resources from the myth of scarcity. The time is past due for new form of association to be created that can steer the world away from its dest…

—p.23 A Hacker Manifesto Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark
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an abstraction of nature

Abstraction is always an abstraction of nature, a process that creates nature's double, a second nature, a space of human existence in which collective life dwells among its own products and comes to take the environment it produces to be natural.

—p.16 Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark
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everywhere abstraction reigns

Everywhere abstraction reigns, abstraction made concrete. Everywhere abstraction's straight lines and pure curves order matters along complex but efficient vectors. But where education teaches what one may produce with an abstraction, the knowledge most useful for the hacker class is of how abstrac…

—p.7 Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark
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decommodification of our lives

A working solution, to be deliberately ironic, is to struggle for decommodification of our lives. Campaigns against privatization and for the return of privatized services to public control try to reduce our dependence on work by attacking the way work is supposed to account for all of our self-rep…

—p.99 Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism by Benjamin Noys
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Benjamin on accelerationism

The idea of the tracks stretching into the future leaves revolution as a receding moment--the station we never quite arrive in. The result, contra to the revolutionary intervention, it is the constant stoking of the train, i.e. the capitalist productive forces. This is another instance of accelerat…

—p.91 by Benjamin Noys