“Economies With Absolutely No Limits”

A rigorous and mind-blowing account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.

Central to this book is the idea that capital does not belong to humans, it belongs to, and is governed by, itself. Traditional economic theory struggles to keep up with the rapid rate of acceleration, and this book steps in to address this.

Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo are two researchers with great insight into contemporary economics, technology and finance, and yet they write as musicians, as the poetic theorists of antiquity. They try to push the conversation to a new position, a position which understands DoorDash drivers, MMORPG gold farmers, and remote workers, accounts for AWS architecture, for memecoins and blockchain, for BlackRock, for the Internet (but for reals this time), for High-Frequency Trading and the LinkedIn economy, for Scale, for Airplane Miles and Club card points, and for ADHD & Adderall. 

Charles Mudede (Zimbabwean-American writer, filmmaker, and leftwing cultural critic) wrote the foreword, Alex Quicho (theorist and researcher working across society, technology, and politics) wrote the afterword. 

Editor’s notes:

“The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it’s tired, it’s not especially good at the internet, it’s probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically underemployed, unavailable, drowning in the student debt (or student opportunity cost) required for entry into the critical apparatus. Few have any patience for the numbing slop-speak of the LinkedIn economy, the libertarian enclave of forex and HFT and memecoins, the quarter-zip depravity of employment at the charnel houses of McKinsey or Deloitte or Accenture, the blazingly random mood-swings of venture capital that lubricate all of the above. This impatience is—in the parlance of the above—a blocker: it means that the critical apparatus underestimates the power of the software economy, struggles to articulate the morphological density of digitally-realized capitalism, comprehensively ignores the functional death of labor, and doesn’t understand scale.”

“This is not an argument for a new phase of capitalism, but rather a cosmological, retroactive take on the continuity of capital as an inhuman algorithm modeled on finance and software rather than factory and labor, manifesting in the contemporary topology of the spongy and blob-like digital business formations—this is bound to be controversial, but it is worth contending with. So love it or hate it, Exocapitalism is original, enlightening and infuriating: a book to be reckoned with.” (Tiziana Terranova)

About the Authors

Marek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Roberto Alonso Trillo is a theorist and artist whose work spans cultural theory, media philosophy, and experimental sound. Based in Hong Kong, his research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructural critique and performativity.

Softcover, published in 2025, 218 pages.