POLIKS, Marek & ALONSO TRILLO, Roberto
Exocapitalism. Economies with absolutely no limits

The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it’s tired, it's not especially good at the internet, it’s probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically underemployed, unavailable, drowning in the student debt (or student opportunity cost) required for entry into the critical apparatus. Few have any patience for the numbing slop-speak of the LinkedIn economy, the libertarian enclave of forex and HFT and memecoins, the quarter-zip depravity of employment at the charnel houses of McKinsey or Deloitte or Accenture, the blazingly random mood-swings of venture capital that lubricate all of the above. This impatience is—in the parlance of the above—a blocker: it means that the critical apparatus underestimates the power of the software economy, struggles to articulate the morphological density of digitally-realized capitalism, comprehensively ignores the functional death of labor, and doesn’t understand scale.

Foreword by Charles Mudede; afterword by Alex Quicho; illustrations by Avocado Ibuprofen.

Published by Becoming Press, 2025
Design by Polymnia Tsinti & Palais Sinclaire
Essays / Media Studies / Politics / Economy