In practice, this emergent ruling class of our time insists on the confinement of particular acts of creation within the…
In practice, this emergent ruling class of our time insists on the confinement of particular acts of creation within the property form and access to collective creative activity, from which to harvest information in the aggregate. This is the vectoralist class. If the capitalist class owns the means of production, the vectoralist class owns the vectors of information. They own the extensivevectors of communication, which traverse space. They own the intensive vectors of computation, which accelerate time. They own the copyrights, the patents, and the trademarks that capture attention or assign ownership to novel techniques. They own the logistic systems that manage and monitor the disposition and movement of any resource. They own the financial instruments that stand in for the value of every resource and that can be put out on markets to crowdsource the possible value of every possible future combination of those resources. They own the algorithms that rank and sort and assign particular information in particular circumstances. Wark, McKenzie. Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? London: Verso, 2019.