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14 Mar 2010 - 1:00pm

Capital has dispossessed would-be subjects of internetworked languaging of the many assets they must use before they may number among the languaging subjects of internetworked production capitals.

Internetworked production capitals do something more than take fiscal responsibility for building both the Internet and the means of transport and communication through the Internet ("Fabric").

Internetworked production capitals make alienable assets of the following:

  • the environment wherein interpersonal writing occurs
  • the empty interindividual space that confronts writers who want to use writing to communicate across time and space
  • the ether upon which individual writers float and propel their written, interpersonal messages
  • the written messages themselves that writers pass to each other
  • the technologies that writers use to produce the written messages that they pass between themselves
  • the personal identities that writers assume when they meet and communicate with each other
  • the indispensable material substrate of each self-identified writer who only thinks and writes and self-identifies because the writing subject is an object both comprised of and sustained by matter (Harrison, "Unconscious" 64)

Having converted the act of writing in all of its particulars into a complex mass of alienable assets, capital has presented asset poor writers, who must work at writing but do not own the means of written production, with access to alienable assets in writing (Harrison, "Unconscious" 64).

Because internetworked production capitals provide asset poor writers with access to the complex mass of alienable assets that individuals must access if they hope to become subjects of internetworked languaging, capital has managed to dispossess would-be subjects of the alienable assets they must use before they, too, may number among the alienable subjects of internetworked production capitals.

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