Capital as fate

We are living in an age of crisis. Ecocide, pandemics, and genocide loom over our collective horizon. The technological fixes promised by and for the few threaten to aggravate the misery of the many. The sense that the crisis is interminable and perhaps even terminal is increasingly pervasive. In this context: have we the hope to think, as Seneca attributes to Epicure, that there are still short and easy paths to freedom? Ray Brassier, known for his work in philosophical realism and author of Nihilism unbound. Enlightenment and extinction will present the main ideas of his last work Fatelessness: Freedom and Fatality after Marx.