Tag: capitalism and culture
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Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories
One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…