Kid A In Alphabet Land/Kapital
Kapital
Kid A In Alphabet Land Knows the Weight of Kapital!
Kapital names a system in which value is abstracted, accumulated, and circulated independently of concrete use. What matters is not the object itself, but its capacity to generate more value through exchange.
From a psychoanalytic perspective, capital functions as a powerful organizer of desire. Objects are invested with promise and urgency, while lack is displaced onto the next acquisition. Satisfaction is perpetually deferred.
Lacan’s reading of capitalism emphasizes its relation to surplus enjoyment. Capital does not simply regulate exchange; it produces new forms of compulsion, binding subjects to endless circulation without resolution.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, Kapital confronts Kid A as a silent measure. Everything appears comparable, countable, and exchangeable—yet meaning steadily thins as accumulation accelerates.