Lift: Economies with Absolutely No Limits

Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo's Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits has been praised as an "era-defining book, a book that carries an idea with the potential resonance of Bratton's The Stack or Hardt & Negri's Empire" (New Models). At the centre of their argument is the idea that capitalism does not belong to humans, it belongs to and is governed by itself. Traditional economic theory struggles to keep up with capitalism's rapid rate of acceleration, and this book steps in to address this. In this lecture Alonso Trillo and Poliks delve into one of the main pillars of this cosmofinancial framework, the notion of “Lift”: what happens when financial abstractions achieve escape velocity from terrestrial constraints? What happens when capitalism doesn't need us anymore?