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Minimal Theory of the Process of Abstraction: Diagnosis

Version 5.1.1. (August 1, 2025)

1. On the path of the day. Observed facts

1.1. Poverty of the ancients and wealth of the moderns — or the other way around? The other way around.

1.2. Evanescence of Immediacy and Loss of the Simple

1.3. Disappearance of creativity

1.4. Solitude and ecstasy of promiscuity

1.5. Generalized anxiety and depression

1.6. Control and surveillance

1.7. Shutting-in

1.8. Unlimited commodification • They have brought whores for Eleusis (E. Pound)

1.9. Plasticization of language

1.10. Loss of enjoyment • Murdering Epicurus

1.11. Metafact: the cognitive schism

2. Remote stage of the abstraction process

2.1. Human kind cannot bear very much reality (T.S. Eliot)

2.1.1. Creating an imaginary world

2.1.1.1. Representation • Spectacle

2.1.2. Repression • Escamotage • Détournement

2.2. Correcting the creation - Aspirations for redemption from “stepmotherly nature”

2.2.1. Immortality

2.2.1.1. Enmity • Eradicating “evil”

2.2.2. Idea of power • Total control

2.2.3. Egalité • Deletion of differences

2.2.4. Promethean shame

2.3. Anthropomorphosis: ideas that capture and become operational

2.4. At the beginning of the process: abstractive drift vs. alternative patterns

3. The abstraction process: affine components, in movement and conflictual interweaving

3.2.1.1. Death of the city

3.2.2. Death of the State

3.3. Private Property

3.3.1. From ownership to rental - Death of private property

3.4.1. Use value • Exchange value

3.4.2. Robinsonades

3.4.3. Commodity

3.4.4. Alienation

3.4.5. Excluded commodity • General equivalent

3.5.1. Loan • Credit • Debt • Insurance

3.5.2. Real abstraction

3.5.3. Immortality (sought in money)

3.6.1. Crematistics

3.6.2. Surplus Value

3.6.3. Autonomization • Automatic subject

3.6.4. The commodity of capital

3.6.5. Immortality (sought in the capital)

3.6.6. Death of capital

3.7. The technical system (organization, technique, science) or the productive forces

3.7.1. Abnormal development of prostheses and therapeutics • Surrogates (Ersatz) • Substitutions

3.7.2. Organization • Bureaucracy

3.7.3. Megamachine

3.7.4. Abstract Time

3.7.5. The machines

3.7.6. Abstract Science

3.8. Modus operandi

3.8.1. Combinatorics

3.8.2. Increasingly profound subsumption of labor

3.8.3. Extension of subsumption to leisure time, society, the body

4. Results and goals of the process

4.1. Suppression and substitution of community • Material community

4.1.1. Gemeinwesen

4.1.2. The great organic and cosmic community

4.2. Suppression and substitution of man

4.3. Suppression and substitution of nature

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