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Deleuze - Guattari and their concept of deterritorialization is useful here. Basically, capital destroys the culture of a local area, rebuilds it, and repeats t
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Deleuze - Guattari and their concept of deterritorialization is useful here. Basically, capital destroys the culture of a local area, rebuilds it, and repeats this process ad infinitum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterritorialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterritorialization
This is easy to observe in somewhere like San Francisco. Most traces of culture from the pre-1990 era have been erased completely or have been turned into a theme park. Contemporary SF has almost zero connection to its roots and the sociopolitical consequences speak for themselves.
- zozbot234 5y agoThere's nothing about this process that's contingent on capital, and 'capital' is a confused term anyway. The causal factors are both social (generally grouped under the broad term "modernity") and technical (since technical changes might make some forms of d18n more feasible than they would otherwise be).
- ceilingcorner 5y agoSocial changes and technology aren’t dependent on capital? I’d say it’s pretty much impossible to divorce modernity from capital.
- vorpalhex 5y agoThe native Americans frequently conquered each other and rebuilt the conquered lands to fit their empire. It happened with the Greeks and Romans, the Persians, etc and etc. This isn't new. Places change, and "capital" has nothing to do with it.
- ceilingcorner 5y agoThe concept is intrinsically linked to globalization and global markets.
- vorpalhex 5y agoSo you're suggesting the ancient Persians were globalizing to form markets? I mean, while ancient trade was quite a bit bigger than folks tend to give it credit I don't know I'd use the term "globalized".
- ceilingcorner 5y agoNo, I’m suggesting that the concept is more complicated than your middlebrow dismissal is suggesting.