Look how many people here seemingly get paid to sit on a swivel chair and post their favourite 'depressing drum and bass tunes' to dissensus
He mentions this in the book. The stuff about call centres, all the data harvested on employees, mission statements etc.This is something I used to talk to Mark about. The image of capitalism is of a ruthlessly efficient machine but in fact it's one overriding feature is massive, reckless waste and redundancy.
He mentions this in the book. The stuff about call centres, all the data harvested on employees, mission statements etc.
He actually mentions this point. But says Nick Land is wrong because its exactly these frictions that capital depends on. '"Yet capitalism cannot be 'purified' in this way; strip away the forces of anti-production and capitalism disappears with them." I imagine the utopian image of a perfectly tuned capitalist system, where there is equal and immediate and access to all information and an elimination of logistic problems, would look like some kind of socialism.Perhaps it is a very efficient system, its just bogged down by all the meat. This was a Nick Land point, no? That the means of production need to be emancipated from humans, that humans were a "bootloader" species for something else, something much more efficiently wired for capitalism.
Insane amount of work to be done, if that is the case.
I know it's Spike Jonze. I liked Being John Malkovich and Adaptation and some of his music and skate vids.Yah, I really liked it. Just spoiled it a bit, but its good. Its Spike Jonze, if you like him
It was such a miserable gig the extreme turn over rate was built right into the business model. You walk into the building and you are clocking paid time in less than 24 hours. And they don't explicitly say as much, but they imply that if you want to quit you just stop coming and they wont bother. My third day on the job -20 hours of work and had only gotten three people to stay on the phone- I went on lunch break at the same time as this other dude. The second were out the door he pauses, turns to me and says 'fuck this, tell em I quit if they ask where I'm at,' which I couldn't do because after spending all lunch rewatching him sashay down the street like Clint Eastwood I couldn't go back either.Leos process might have be different but I worked in a call center briefly as the guy spinning the dial, and efficiency is the last word I would use to describe the process.
@Leo He cites the call centre as the closest the majority of us get to directly experiencing the "centrelessness" of capitalism. The Kafkaesque labyrinth of bureaucracy. You never been stuck on hold then passed from person to person having to explain the same thing to each of them before being stuck on hold again?
It was such a miserable gig the extreme turn over rate was built right into the business model. You walk into the building and you are clocking paid time in less than 24 hours. And they don't explicitly say as much, but they imply that if you want to quit you just stop coming and they wont bother. My third day on the job -20 hours of work and had only gotten three people to stay on the phone- I went on lunch break at the same time as this other dude. The second were out the door he pauses, turns to me and says 'fuck this, tell em I quit if they ask where I'm at,' which I couldn't do because after spending all lunch rewatching him sashay down the street like Clint Eastwood I couldn't go back either.