‘Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits’ by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo reviewed by Elliot Goodell Ugalde (opens in new tab)

Exocapitalism by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo presents itself as a radical rethinking of capitalism as an autonomous, inhuman ‘algorithm’ of accumulation. Yet from a Marxist standpoint, it ultimately reproduces the very mystifications it claims to expose. By collapsing value into volatility, latency and speculative ‘holds’, the authors abandon the central premise of Marx’s critique: that value is rooted in labour, not in the stochastic movement of prices or the abstractions of finan...