If bees--in Marx--are only "behaving," then"the bee is already as if alienated in a capitalist structure"
"The bee is permanently caught in the past, because if it only executes an algorithm, it's executing some past state of the bee genome"
"human species-being," by extension, would also be "caught forever in a naturalized capitalist state" [...] an "entrapment of workers in the past" (all 80)
Acting--as distinct from "behaving"--seems "entirely futural. To act is to be like the capitalist, matering time by projecting a future"
"Acting is imprisoned in the future"
Both outcomes, Morton writes, are things Marx "didn't mean"
81: "The stark difference between 'to act' and 'to behave' expresses a class division that is structural to capitalism. And it expresses a severing of the nonhuman (the algorithmic, the past) from the human (the imaginative, the future). That, as they say, totally sucks."
"'To act' and 'to behave' need to be seen as dual aspects of one being. They slide over one another, generating a spectral, breathing nowness. This nowness is open and so it is capable of novelty, or as Marx says, the poetry of the future."
"When it becomes impossible to distinguish between behaving and acting, between executing an algorithm and being a person, we have entered a spectral realm."
90: "Since the ambiguity between acting and behaving is part of a larger ambiguity between being alive and not being alive, to embrace the specter of the nonhuman fully is to embrace the specter of anything at all being 'alive' in the sense of moving without mechanical input"