![]() This appalling prediction is coming true. Doubtless, when one day our children or grandchildren, proud of their perfect ‘co-mechanization’, look down from the great heights of their thousand year Reich at yesterday’s empire, at the so-called ‘third’ Reich, it will seem to them merely a minor, provincial experiment.” (We Sons of Eichmann). “We can expect that the horrors of the Reich to come will vastly eclipse the horrors of yesterday’s Reich. Auschwitz had been the first experiment in the industrialised management of extermination, and today the conjoint forces of technology and racism are preparing the Endlosung on a planetary scale. In his text, We, Sons of Eichmann, Anders writes that the template of Nazism will reach its perfection when technology will get the upper hand over human beings. The Invisible Hand is clearly strangling humankind, as Gunther Anders had predicted already during the years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ![]() Perhaps it was the Invisible Hand that set off the brutal explosion that destroyed the 46,000 year old sacred caves of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people in the Juukan Gorge, on behalf of Rio Tinto.” (The Invisible Hand, an art project by Lara Luna Bartley) Maybe it was the Invisible Hand that knocked on my partner’s door a couple of years ago demanding instant payment on an old debt, ‘or else’. But what if the Invisible Hand were less benign than this? The recent torrent of images of police brutality which have come out of the US, have got me wondering whether this is the Invisible Hand at work-keeping the Ponzi scheme we call capitalism at play. Its magical power is to ensure that social benefit is maximised as long as everyone acts in their own self-interest through the market-apparently. “The Invisible Hand is one of (neo)classical economics’ most enduring mythologies. Other languages: Ελληνικά, Deutsch, Italiano 1. ![]() In this essay, Bifo proposes we rethink autonomy from within the new horizon: that of our own extinction. We wrote to Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi to ask him what lessons the 1970s Autonomia movement had for our current struggles. ![]()
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