This totality implays various social interactions. We should consider politics as part of this totality also. So how can you make politic that steer this circulations in right direction if is already deeply part of it. Changing political paradigms. Maybe new old political institutions like forums. But academic forums. Something different from todays public lectures, but real forums where people challenge each others ideas, and that how rise some new views on totality we live. First forums inside disciplines and then interdisciplinary. This should be part of any academic institution as part of promotion of freedom of thinking and democracy principles. For example once in a week inside of disciplines, and once in a month interdisciplinary. At least to see what potential is really in academia. And maybe to establish some institutions for research of totality through many scientific disciplines. Like this multidisciplinary AI research. Which is in a way same thing because AI tend to grasp this totality problems.
Energy is the currency of existence. Capitalism takes energy in terms of human motivation, in terms of human material needs and wants, as well as the ability to consolidate resultant energy in the form of proceeds and investments for the further development of resources, channeling them back into production. The management of such complex processes is also a form of energy. We always start with energy because without it there would be nothing-not only nothing to work with but nothing would even exist. All non-equilibrium processes in nature arise to facilitate energy-its flow through dissipative structures. This isn’t done by first imagining some overarching system and then implementing it. Einstein said that Nature is a tinkerer, not an engineer, and this is true-the manifestation of form follows, that is, is a response to energies already present that require some kind of channeling in order to flow. This is because energy must flow, must further itself through time, if it’s not to unproductively exhaust itself into unusable heat. Valid criticisms of capitalism aside, please tell me how Marxist or any socialist policy is able to address this question of energy? What would drive and sustain it such that it becomes a fountain of further creativity and further differentiation-the further creation of space, as it were? If these endeavors are ever going to amount to anything more then negative parasitism off of an existing system, and thus an evolutionary dead-end, they’re going to need to tap some kind of well.
At the end of this video, you make the distinction between internal and external transformations. Could you elaborate on the difference between the two? Another way to ask this is where is the boundary or frontier between the two? It does not matter if the frontier is a gray zone, some how "large" or itself always changing, but it must have some kind of recognizable properties and duration in time otherwise how does one know the difference between the "inside" and the "outside?"
A circulatory totality is very elegant but not everything circulates. For example take the most important thing, violence. In its organized form it cannot be circular by definition, only a top-down and one-way chain. Similarly, the body also has excretory processes as well, whose social organs are the prisons, warzones, homeless shelters, psychiatric wards etc. These excretory functions presuppose an outside to the totality, and this makes the very concept of the totality meaningless. The more we press on the idea of a totality, the more we blind ourselves to things that are outside the rule of capital, which is the only possible place where solutions against capitalism might come from. And also, who is going to command the functions of violence and social excretion in a future society? Dissimulation wont answer the question.
While engaged in a capital circulation process, a mobile element of fixed capital made beeping backup noises. This caused a minor crisis in Dr. Harvey's anti-capitalist presentation of the capital circulation processes.
Is it possible for Dr. Harvey to share with us what he knows or his view to Antifa (United States) movement, is this a left wing as the media is saying or is part of George soros foundation (open society) as some left wings is saying?
Thank you for this series
Prof. Harvey, glad to see you in good health
Thanks Doc
This totality implays various social interactions. We should consider politics as part of this totality also. So how can you make politic that steer this circulations in right direction if is already deeply part of it. Changing political paradigms. Maybe new old political institutions like forums. But academic forums. Something different from todays public lectures, but real forums where people challenge each others ideas, and that how rise some new views on totality we live. First forums inside disciplines and then interdisciplinary. This should be part of any academic institution as part of promotion of freedom of thinking and democracy principles. For example once in a week inside of disciplines, and once in a month interdisciplinary. At least to see what potential is really in academia. And maybe to establish some institutions for research of totality through many scientific disciplines. Like this multidisciplinary AI research. Which is in a way same thing because AI tend to grasp this totality problems.
Energy is the currency of existence. Capitalism takes energy in terms of human motivation, in terms of human material needs and wants, as well as the ability to consolidate resultant energy in the form of proceeds and investments for the further development of resources, channeling them back into production. The management of such complex processes is also a form of energy. We always start with energy because without it there would be nothing-not only nothing to work with but nothing would even exist. All non-equilibrium processes in nature arise to facilitate energy-its flow through dissipative structures. This isn’t done by first imagining some overarching system and then implementing it. Einstein said that Nature is a tinkerer, not an engineer, and this is true-the manifestation of form follows, that is, is a response to energies already present that require some kind of channeling in order to flow. This is because energy must flow, must further itself through time, if it’s not to unproductively exhaust itself into unusable heat. Valid criticisms of capitalism aside, please tell me how Marxist or any socialist policy is able to address this question of energy? What would drive and sustain it such that it becomes a fountain of further creativity and further differentiation-the further creation of space, as it were? If these endeavors are ever going to amount to anything more then negative parasitism off of an existing system, and thus an evolutionary dead-end, they’re going to need to tap some kind of well.
What is to do, then? Paul Cockshott made a convincing argument for vouchers in Towards a New Socialism. Anyone making that app yet?
At the end of this video, you make the distinction between internal and external transformations. Could you elaborate on the difference between the two? Another way to ask this is where is the boundary or frontier between the two? It does not matter if the frontier is a gray zone, some how "large" or itself always changing, but it must have some kind of recognizable properties and duration in time otherwise how does one know the difference between the "inside" and the "outside?"
A circulatory totality is very elegant but not everything circulates. For example take the most important thing, violence. In its organized form it cannot be circular by definition, only a top-down and one-way chain. Similarly, the body also has excretory processes as well, whose social organs are the prisons, warzones, homeless shelters, psychiatric wards etc. These excretory functions presuppose an outside to the totality, and this makes the very concept of the totality meaningless. The more we press on the idea of a totality, the more we blind ourselves to things that are outside the rule of capital, which is the only possible place where solutions against capitalism might come from.
And also, who is going to command the functions of violence and social excretion in a future society? Dissimulation wont answer the question.
While engaged in a capital circulation process, a mobile element of fixed capital made beeping backup noises. This caused a minor crisis in Dr. Harvey's anti-capitalist presentation of the capital circulation processes.
I'm not sure if I can trust a guy who abuses cactus plants by tying them to posts and the one to his left appears to need water and alot of TLC.
Ad Hominem.
That's how I also rate my political evolution.🤪
Is it possible for Dr. Harvey to share with us what he knows or his view to Antifa (United States) movement, is this a left wing as the media is saying or is part of George soros foundation (open society) as some left wings is saying?