Nick Land's claim that capitalism is AI, unpacked via Deleuze, Hayek and I. J. Good
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-18
A new essay in the Institute of Art and Ideas unpacks Nick Land's thesis that capitalism is AI, drawing on Deleuze & Guattari, Hayek, I. J. Good, Marx, Schumpeter, Vinge, Kurzweil, Yudkowsky and others: machines, not classes, collectively produce and appropriate surplus value — "capitalism could be described as communism for machines." Reposter jessicata sees possible convergence with analytic agent foundations research, calling Homo economicus a science fiction concept.
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