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anniebrxwn's review
i’ll skim the rest when i feel like it, the arguments were made pretty clear early on imo
javorstein's review
4.0
good book i guess. not huge on his version of autonomism even though i do agree on the primacy of capital in power formation etc. really bad critiques of foucault as always. he should try reading foucault. felt like a shorter version of W&C w/ alliez but not written as well. way too polemical (again mostly viz. foucault). otherwise good arguments connecting capital with war, acceleration, subjection, semiologization, etc. (though latter is more S&M). pretty decent
neoludification's review
3.5
There is no need to abandon the possibility of revolution, only to rethink our strategies for waging war on capitalism! Lazzarato takes no prisoners with his polemical arguments on the relationship between capital and technology. Rather than ascribing autonomous power to machines, he says, we should investigate their origins in and ultimate subservience to the capitalist war machine. This position, like that of Lazzarato's adversaries, has its limitations. The author's treatment of feminism, while affirmative and good-natured, is also a bit simplistic at times.
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