Fuck yeah, Karl Marx!

Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10.

“labor value extracted from living bodies and congealed in the parasitically animated body of capital” (Antonis Balasopoulos)

“the abstraction of value which, in a bloodless movement, vampirizes all of the worker’s labor and, transforming itself into surplus-value, becomes capital”  (Antonio Negri, “The Specter’s Smile”, in Ghostly Demarcations, 7.  cited in Balasopoulos)

“Our machines are disturbingly lively and we ourselves frighteningly inert.” (Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto)

“that enormous properly human and anti-natural power of dead human labor stored up in our machinery—an alienated power…” (Jameson, Postmodernism, 35)

Gothic tropes: the uncanny, the undead, boundary crossings between machines and humans.  The scary pleasures of the Gothic as vernacular expression of the Romantic sublime.  (See Michael Gamer, Romanticism and the Gothic: genre, reception, and canon formation 2000)  Homage to my beloved friend LJS who recently and reluctantly taught Baudrillard alongside The Ma[t]r[i]x.

(via marxistsinspace)