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As we are well aware since Marx, capitalism has been a mode of production which, unlike the previous ones, functions as a machine that operates by capturing ever more layers of everyday life, can only sustain itself through the crises which it causes itself. Even though these crises are caused by an economic source in the classical meaning of the term (capitalist exploitation and capital accumulation strategies) the manifestation of them in the social milieu is multi-dimensional. First aim of this article is to define a certain dimension of the ongoing capitalist crises. This definition will be based on Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of capitalism as the force that endlessly deterritorializes and then reterritorializes codes on the State, capital, family, nation, culture etc. so that accumulation can continue. In short, this article claims that ability of contemporary capitalism to reterritorialize social flows is in a deep crisis.
This crisis, in Stiegler’s conceptualization, is a pharmacological one that functions both as poison and cure at once. After drawing the conceptual boundaries of this crisis as “the crisis of reterritorialization”, this article will also read certain studies (Dark Enlightenment, Neganthropocene and Degrowth etc.) as a reaction to such crisis which does not foresee a post-capitalist future but a solution within the capitalist machine.
At the end of the study, a different theoretical approach from the reviewed ones to the “crisis of reterritorialization” will be presented. This theoretical approach, unlike the reviewed ones, is based on a post-capitalist future, will set its foundations on a certain differentiation between the notions of politics and Political and Mark Fisher’s study of The Weird and The Eerie. Only by vitalization of the affective and ontological forces of becoming-weird or/and becoming-eerie, this article will claim, crisis of reterritorialization can be resolved in a post-capitalist possibility.
| Keywords | capitalism, crisis, Weird and Eerie, deterritorialization, reterritorialization |
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| atamer.aykac@kapadokya.edu.tr |