The Monster, Capital

There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’ s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter’ s The Thing: an ‘ infinitely plastic entity capable of metabolising and absorbing anything with wh...