The Ghost in the Machine
Value and the Economist’s Blindness
fabio vighi
I am a scholar, writer, and public intellectual working at the intersection of political economy, cultural criticism, and psychoanalytic theory. My work focuses on crisis capitalism — its logic, contradictions, and cultural expressions.
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Performative Economics and the Monopoly of Imagination
Credit: Imaginiac.
AI Shock and Central Bank Trap
A week of living dangerously
There is No America
A Short Primer on Collapse
The Man Who Stood Still
It is rare to witness stillness during football matches.
The Only Way Is Down
War, debt, and the drone economy – why the system cannot survive without all three
The Mask and the Barrel
Crude oil storage tanks at the Cushing oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Until the Paper Itself Tears
And the real contradiction – a post-productive economy trying to fund an AI future on mountains of debt – is never resolved.
The Final Delusion
Capital Becoming Itself
The Three Fuses
A Samsung strike, a China admission, and the private credit time bomb
Wall Street’s at Breaking Point
A Permanent State of Last-Minute Rescue.