@elana So, construction "mourning normalcy"—signaling #lumpentheory's #generativist turn—has been highlighted:

https://mastodon.social/@IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca/109564612675250927

Here, lumpentheory entails #quoicapitalist critical historicism of material relations of Marx's déclassé "passive decaying matter" under #RentierSociety, a term, in turn, echoing Marx's "capitalist society"—eschewing popular reification while refuting Kapital augury of landlords subsumed, rather having done the subsuming: hence quoi.

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@elana Let me finish the dishes and then will try to provide a synopsis glossary of #lumpentheory.

This has been a day for multiple parallel discussions, across different platforms, all leading to compelling new formulations of #lumpentheory vis-à-vis #grief and societal barriers to #mourning.

Revved up. But gonna have to park it and get to sleep.

@blkchimera Hence the need for a #lumpentheory that begins its critique not with the glorification of work and the worker vis-à-vis capitalist exploitation, but instead with the #ableism, the eugenics, the #whiteness, that binds and holds fast those of #conveyancée, #disaccommodation and #conquistadas #classposture vis-à-vis colonial extraction.

Any move to elide or erase dispossession—as Marx did with his "passive decaying matter"—is #eugenicist at its core. Such cannot be our starting point.

Where use-value refers to tangible features of commodities as produced, #EgoValue refers to intangible qualities vested in choices, in things done.

Otherwise inherent, the affective commitments that are ego-value are perverted under #FrosteanBargain: underwritten by dispossession of others.

Vested as promises of entitlement to have that which others have not. Redemption, both transactional and moral, under #compliancism.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20ego-value&src=typed_query

Social contract of #perquisitive #classposture.

The term is a triple articulation: to seek perks is to cast choice as faux-liberatory Protean cantrip, an invocation of a misremembered mending–passing Robert.

The exchange is not the purchase of consumption. The exchange was the fetish, the #fetter, to future free to choose.

#EgoValue underwritten by moralist belief that good outcomes result from good choices.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20bargain&src=typed_query&f=top

Despite chiliastic prophecy—reading a Christobiblical Fall into future history—the system will not collapse.

Can only be taken down—the binds that hold it fast… severed.

#tensegrity in architecture harnesses gravity to hold itself aloft.

So too #RentierSociety harnesses stressors that would herald its fall, having subverted class struggle, co-opted dialectic, it grows more—not less—robust with each increase in tension.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20tensegrity&src=typed_query

#Classposture is body as done—by bounty, by discretion, by obligation, by #disability, by deprivation. How—not where—one stands in relation with society.

Where numismatic class theory categorizes by income or wealth, class posturalism looks to how resources bind and hold—floating compression, #tensegrity—and to recognizable silhouettes thus cast.

Folk code-switch: one can inhabit multiple postural classes in a day.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20class%20posture&src=typed_query&f=top

#RentierSociety, the American mode, holds fast by fetters of mutualistic relation: oligarch bounty motive & #perquisitive discretion motive.

Distinct from profit-seeking, both rent- and perk-seeking are libidinal. Desiring.

Rent-seeking ain't just landlords—all extractive relations. No use value is produced, no means of production entailed, by #RentBounty harvest. Rent-bounty is purely extractive. Purely colonial.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20rentier%20society%20rent-seeking&src=typed_query&f=top

To contemplate a new #Marxism as #criptheory—as #lumpentheory—is to likewise think #RentierSociety through a theory of #ableism, of #compliancism, of #eugenics, of #whiteness.

A #generativist lumpentheory, a #quoicapitalist criptheory, must fundamentally be a theory of #PublicHealth—of differential bodily welfares of publics, incrementally colonial and colonized, wherein and whereby structural pre-stressors of rentier #tensegrity are enabled.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40beadsland%20lumpentheory&src=typed_query

#Normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
Climate would've killed it—if #covid hadn't.

Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many #spoons.

We can bury ourselves or bury the dead.
We only got so many spoons.

Use them wisely.

#lumpentheory

https://twitter.com/beadsland/status/1517659472222642178

#introduction

Generativist—#anarchism-adjacent #criptheory—#lumpentheory of #RentierSociety & #tensegrity fetters of #classposture #kyriarchy, with interest turning increasingly to societal #grief and collective acts of #mourning.

#cripplepunk meets #solarpunk

#abolitionist by way of #STS, #NVC, Pirsig.

#neologism by way of #neurodivergence.

Team #emdash.

Old school #programmer from before dotcom bubble, now developing #AnnoPlot #dataviz library & weekly refresh of #ThisIsOurPolio charts.