Finally getting around to reading this book. Not sure about the subsumption framework but nonetheless it feels like a book that should be central to a debate that needs to happen today
newbooksnetwork.com/subsumption-...
newbooksnetwork.com/subsumption-...
Andres Saenz de Sicilia, "Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society" (Brill, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
September 26, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Finally getting around to reading this book. Not sure about the subsumption framework but nonetheless it feels like a book that should be central to a debate that needs to happen today
newbooksnetwork.com/subsumption-...
newbooksnetwork.com/subsumption-...
This is an actual example of “emotional labor” by the way. The real subsumption of labor. Ugh
February 26, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is an actual example of “emotional labor” by the way. The real subsumption of labor. Ugh
Look there's just very obvious reasons that erotic envelopment and subsumption appeals to lesbians, it's not exactly rocket dildo science.
Remains amusing to me people think Devi and I are in conversation with Locked Tomb (not an issue) when we've never read it; I think multiple lesbians just independently arrived at a specific sort of cannibalism and obsession with becoming a single being? Which is kinda cool.
January 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Look there's just very obvious reasons that erotic envelopment and subsumption appeals to lesbians, it's not exactly rocket dildo science.
Latent Omnipresent Socioreferential Subsumption
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Latent Omnipresent Socioreferential Subsumption
this sort of irony that occurs where the "anime femboy" archetype is a legibility lens on youth transfemininity filtered by heterosexual consumption (the -boy as much as in tomboy; subsumption to feminization), but feminine men are in fact prolific they're just in like, shoujosei, yaoi, danmei, etc.
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this sort of irony that occurs where the "anime femboy" archetype is a legibility lens on youth transfemininity filtered by heterosexual consumption (the -boy as much as in tomboy; subsumption to feminization), but feminine men are in fact prolific they're just in like, shoujosei, yaoi, danmei, etc.
The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text.
We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital
We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital
No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...
March 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text.
We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital
We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital
They seem committed to some synthesis version where Col Killmurder is replaced by drones and AI agents. Same subsumption of labor by capital as elsewhere, just applied to the commission of violence.
March 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They seem committed to some synthesis version where Col Killmurder is replaced by drones and AI agents. Same subsumption of labor by capital as elsewhere, just applied to the commission of violence.
very pleased to see that I have made wiktionary as an example quotation for "subsumption"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsump...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsump...
subsumption - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en.wiktionary.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
very pleased to see that I have made wiktionary as an example quotation for "subsumption"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsump...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsump...
Well i think the questions it focuses on are what more people should be debatIng. But personally i think too many people have leaned on subsumption without interrogating it. And I‘m also uneasy with how the book subsumes a number of issues under the subsumption concept.
September 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Well i think the questions it focuses on are what more people should be debatIng. But personally i think too many people have leaned on subsumption without interrogating it. And I‘m also uneasy with how the book subsumes a number of issues under the subsumption concept.
Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails
March 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails
Gonna open up a store called Subsumption Flatware, right next to the Anthropologie
Proposal:
Using spoons and forks instead of sporks is a sign of petit bourgeoisie commitment to capitalist hegemonic cutlery.
Using spoons and forks instead of sporks is a sign of petit bourgeoisie commitment to capitalist hegemonic cutlery.
I would like to order a new set of discourses for tomorrow, please
July 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Gonna open up a store called Subsumption Flatware, right next to the Anthropologie
Woof. Don't love the survival of the democracy being in some way dependent of subsumption of the death drive, here
February 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Woof. Don't love the survival of the democracy being in some way dependent of subsumption of the death drive, here
Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We eroticize subsumption and unity but in a kind of visceral way
January 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
We eroticize subsumption and unity but in a kind of visceral way
*new dossier*
on subsumption, abstraction, and totality. With articles by Rob Lucas, Ray Brassier, Dimitra Kotouza, and Marina Vishmidt, to whom this dossier is dedicated.
endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/err...
on subsumption, abstraction, and totality. With articles by Rob Lucas, Ray Brassier, Dimitra Kotouza, and Marina Vishmidt, to whom this dossier is dedicated.
endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/err...
August 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
*new dossier*
on subsumption, abstraction, and totality. With articles by Rob Lucas, Ray Brassier, Dimitra Kotouza, and Marina Vishmidt, to whom this dossier is dedicated.
endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/err...
on subsumption, abstraction, and totality. With articles by Rob Lucas, Ray Brassier, Dimitra Kotouza, and Marina Vishmidt, to whom this dossier is dedicated.
endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/err...
das stimmt aber bestimmte kunst macht es der kapitalistischen subsumption schwerer als andere und squid game gehört da definitiv nicht dazu, weswegen es einfach vollkommen egal ist
“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it
December 27, 2024 at 8:24 AM
das stimmt aber bestimmte kunst macht es der kapitalistischen subsumption schwerer als andere und squid game gehört da definitiv nicht dazu, weswegen es einfach vollkommen egal ist
Another early foray in florification i.e. the fetishistic subsumption of subject into object, 2016
November 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Another early foray in florification i.e. the fetishistic subsumption of subject into object, 2016
another (and probably less useful) way of putting this is that slop marks the "real subsumption" of content to algorithmic platforms and the capital that organizes them
Slop is what you get when the conditions of content distribution — the recommendation algorithms, reaction economies, and monetization schemes of social media — feed directly, continuously and automatically back into content production
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May 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
another (and probably less useful) way of putting this is that slop marks the "real subsumption" of content to algorithmic platforms and the capital that organizes them
the problem with whale encyclopedias, like keys to all mythologies, is their subsumption of everything
Attn @annakornbluh.bsky.social this claim has gone unchallenged so I believe by the power invested in me by jurgen habermas it is now a discursive norm.
February 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM
the problem with whale encyclopedias, like keys to all mythologies, is their subsumption of everything
Who’s out there theorizing AI as the real subsumption of nature by capital?
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Who’s out there theorizing AI as the real subsumption of nature by capital?
lucky, lucky mind- post-subsumption, reflexes and twitches find occasional new expression
June 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
lucky, lucky mind- post-subsumption, reflexes and twitches find occasional new expression
EFFORTPOST: "Subsumption; or, The Hermeneutics of Plurality."
In which a headmate, Mute, vents about her frustrations with the social contract, and the ways in which our system interacts with those contracts - even when those contracts cause harm to Mute.
LINK: hootos.bearblog.dev/subsumption-...
In which a headmate, Mute, vents about her frustrations with the social contract, and the ways in which our system interacts with those contracts - even when those contracts cause harm to Mute.
LINK: hootos.bearblog.dev/subsumption-...
July 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
EFFORTPOST: "Subsumption; or, The Hermeneutics of Plurality."
In which a headmate, Mute, vents about her frustrations with the social contract, and the ways in which our system interacts with those contracts - even when those contracts cause harm to Mute.
LINK: hootos.bearblog.dev/subsumption-...
In which a headmate, Mute, vents about her frustrations with the social contract, and the ways in which our system interacts with those contracts - even when those contracts cause harm to Mute.
LINK: hootos.bearblog.dev/subsumption-...
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access!
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026
This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...
doi.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access!
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
Alongside 3 varying concepts of subsumption
September 27, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Alongside 3 varying concepts of subsumption
“Fishing resists subsumption quite simply because the ocean does.” Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
July 24, 2026 at 2:16 PM
“Fishing resists subsumption quite simply because the ocean does.” Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature