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The series should be understood in terms of a spatiotemporal topology that accounts for the nonlinear chaotic action at a distance of bodies one on another, of one memory on another, a quantum nonlocality. Here we see the governing of a neoliberal capitalism moving to a measure beyondprobabilities of statistical populations, the latter being what Foucault saw as central to neoliberal biopolitical governance. The move is to the excess created beyond the capture of probability. It is a move to preemptive/hensive power, to the curvilinear that evokes another measure ofa lively mathematics for the lively interval between Os and 1s.\n\nWith this measure, a digital depth offers the incomputable measure, a measure of potentiality befitting the power beyond biopower aimed at the condition of emergence or of potentiality—the prehensive. It is this measure that is set to work in a financial capitalism where wealth is produced external to capital's organization of labor or external to the accumulation of capital through production. What has been called the knowledge economy or the information economy or, most recently, the affect economy points to an accumulation of wealth through the working on the prehensive, what was referred to above as affect—itself a generalized affect, an abstraction brought through past investment in the education and welfare of workers and the upgrading of technical management, which increasingly is not considered to be opposed to creativity and invention. However, through the privatization and rarefication of education, health care, control of fertility, social security, and other social welfare provisions, and as the openness of digital networks continues to hold allure for governments and giant corporations that wish to contain it, creativity and invention are being made scarce. And it is this scarcity that lends motivation for a measure other than or more than the measure of probability. It is a measure that generates enthrallment with measure, integrating words, numbers, images, and diagrams to turn measure into alluring evidence ofan already present future, a preempted future not only because it modulates human time memory but also the time memory at every scale of matter, the becoming of the programmable matter of nanotechnology.\n\nAesthetics, Measure, and the Object\n\nAs measure becomes increasingly particular and affective, necessarily changing the metric for each next measure, there is an increase of interest in aesthetics as part of philosophy's return to ontology;it is a return to affect as a first principle for the ontological grasp of all entities. This orientation suggests an ahumanism, or a democracy of objects, that does not presume the human as center of being and feeling. Thus, an object orientation proposes that all objects have the same ontological weight to throw around—that is, each object can affect other objects and can be affected by them. This certainly displaces the human as the only agency about which there should be philosophical concern; surely this concern is shared by Deleuze andWhitehead.\n\nThe Digital, Labor, and Measure beyond Biopolitics\n\n121","previous_page":120,"next_page":null}