Status Updates From Postcapitalist Desire: The ...

That's what I'm suggesting, I guess, in terms of what we saw with black performers in the US. Their success preceded the actual shifts in racial dynamics in US society. Again, not that they were resolved, by any means, but culture allows this kind of performative anticipation of a radically transformed world.

You can have this machine that is the most wondrous thing imaginable but, if you don't have the time to use it, it might as well not be there.
And that's where we are at. That's where we are in terms of what human capacities are at the moment, and what the capacities of the things produced by humans are — or let's put it that way, for the moment — and what the capacity of human agency to use those things is!

[Capitalism] has to continually inhibit the capacity for consciousness, and it's done a very good job. You could say that time is fundamental to the means of production— of everything! It also seems to be, in the world today, like some sort of fairy-tale where there's some magical golden machine in a room over there that can make anything you want. It's just there, but you don't have the time to go there.