Authored by Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo Introduction by Charles Mudede Afterword by Alex Quicho more contributors TBA

ABOUT: Up next is a big one, brought to you by the minds behind the Disintegrator podcast. A rigorous and mind-blowing account of the dynamics of capitalism, in particular these nebulous, metastatic and fundamentally ungrounded spirals of software, service-provider and platform companies. This book steps forward from Marx, and offers radically new ways to understand how these cutting-edge, complex knots of "empty-shells" manage to call themselves forth from the abyss.

While at times, the language is academic, precise and drenched in meticulous citations, at other moments a vivid and charismatic voice steps through: "Mergers and acquisitions happen constantly, a wet market where hulking translucent beasts swap organs with each other for liquidity, or where freestanding, inchoate bodies are pulled in into endosymbiotic relations. Blobs accrete to titanic scales, at which point they either bud off with parthenogenetic thrust or become so dotted with advanced cancers that they cease to be recognizable as single blobs at all. Others just pop into puffs of spores.— It’s hard to even situate this organ market as competitive, it’s a free-for-all of limitless organs. These translucent hulks simply reach through each other. Sometimes they get stuck and merge."

There are three chapters dedicated to three philosophical concepts that exemplify the theoretical work being done here: Fold, Drag & Lift. These really well-elaborated concepts help situate this theory within a very contemporary discourse, one which winks at Baudrillard, Lucretius; one where, as Achim Szepanski wrote: Capital might, at moments, seem like the Evil Twin of Deleuze.

BIOS: Marek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted).

Roberto Alonso Trillo is a theorist and artist whose work spans cultural theory, media philosophy, and experimental sound. Based in Hong Kong, his research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructural critique and performativity. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production. His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical pedagogy.

DETAILS: CAT#: BECOMING010 Size: 13 x 19 cm Format: Softcover Pages: approx. 220 ISBN: 978-9925-8156-7-8

CITE AS: Poliks, M., Trillo, R.A. (2025) Exocapitalism: Economies with absolutely no limits. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8156-7-8.

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