Economy and metaphysics. Husty reflections on the capital’s techno-logocentric aspect, automation and industrialization of subjectivity

Abstract

If, indeed, as Marx says, "the history of humanity has been the history of class struggle", it would not be surprising if a close, convenient and silent relationship between economy, technology and metaphysics was inscribed in it. In this sense, and in order to support a critical reflection on this relationship, digital colonialism will be considered as a good excuse to make visible and understand, at least in its outlines, what could be called the techno-logocentric inscription of capital and its relation to what will be called the material a priori of the class struggle. This will imply, consequently, assuming both the path of the critique of political economy (Marx) and that of a critique of the metaphysics of presence (Derrida) and making them run one on top of the other. The act of subversion of metaphysics, in this way, can only unfold as a mode of general criticism of political economy, thereby making the class struggle not only, in its posterity, an effect of antagonisms but, in its now, the material a priori capable of objecting to the digital becoming of capital.