Bifo Lecture

Cap vs Semio-Cap

- Cap Commodities have value of exchange in the market (Produce skittles have exchange value)
- Semio-Cap Not about the exchange of material commodities, but of thoughts into research
that sustains the world creation then investigation) Interrogate the meaning of Skittles or
Pistachios, why do we enjoy them
- Semio Cap focuses on Aesthetic Production the spreading of culture (Cultural Appropiation
Semio-Cap tries to marketize the exchange between cultures) sustains production of
commodities
- Classic Cap finds no meaning for a term called Cinco de Mayo, but Semio-Cap would marketize
that event to make it not just an interrogated concept but an event that creates a cause for
celebration that we can marketize
- Since internet boom, we have shifted from Cap
- The Internet flipped the world from what is a commodity information has now shifted to an
commodity purchase things that do not have material things
- Semio Cap makes it harder to exhaust Cap because its all in your head and its harder to be
exhausted
- New Demand for the constant demand of information
- Capitalism is no longer sustained by the commodities to create goods, but solely a surface based
economy with the idea that goods could be produced
- Aff increasing Trade China is switching to a service economy (Virtually any Aff still rely
- Libidinal Economy Similar to Semio Cap, way in which value is exchanged
- Links in term of Topicality what is the interpretation of the link that shifts the link to a counter
interpretation that allows and grants me a permutation
- Semio-Cap creates sets of questions that ask how it would occur

Use of Debate Ability in debate

- Boost Economy Link (what is the value of the US)

- If there is no whole sale primacy of US, Us vs Them creates system of Propiety that eliminates
the system for the US to own propriety, dwelving in the form of Semio-Cap
- Property is not tanbile, it is not created or enforce
- Paradox of Ownership = You can acquire something and you cant move it if you choose not to
the temporary nature of ownership
- On lInk control interpretation of how they interact with the world seek to control and
continue the spreading of ideas impact of Cap Kritik Impacts
- Impact Psychotic Violence of Semio-Cap
- Pro-Tracted War Theory 3 Phases 1)Initial Marx 2)Lenin Concept of Extending theory to the
Proletariat 3) Mao Focused on initiating the practice of Communism establish Protracted
War theory between the Buzwa (sp?) and proletariat and the conversion fo the New World
- Socialism Congruent of Capitalism and Communism still an established market but also state
provided if you do not continue the march towards conversion then Socialism
- Alt Reject the premise of interrogating politics