Unthinking Capital: Conceptual and Terminological Landmarks

In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of
capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on
two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political
ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon. These insights produce a tension between
colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formation.
This reconceptualization of capital is pursued through the notion of muri, which the Japanese
thinker Uno Kōzō deployed to designate a bold non-western pathway to reading Capital. The
article elaborates and formulates three conceptual and terminological landmarks to unthinking
capital for a global social theory.