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Labor in a capitalist regime is controled and managed by the trinity of time, place, and machine in factories. They can capture labor effectively by using discipline and can make labor conform and obey the regime passively. In this sense, they can be called the apparatus of capture in capitalism: Time-apparatus of capture, place-apparatus of capture, and machine-apparatus of capture. Firstly, time-apparatus can capture labor in the way it makes specific movements correspond to segmented time and connects them without delayed time. Secondly, place-apparatus can capture labor in the way it divides places by functions and parts, assigns labor in the divided areas, and connects the divided works in the right placement. Lastly, machine-apparatus can capture labor in the way the apparatus replaces it with dynamic machines, links it to them, and discipline it to be subordinate to them. Also, the subordination of labor is discovered in Marx’s theory of excess population. The theory is that surplus labor emerges due to excess population. By the surplus labor, the employed as well as the unemployed can be controlled by capital under the pressure of unemployment. In this way, labor can be captured by capital. Eventually, the strategy of these apparatuses and excess population are similar to that of bio-power, which operates through body control and population control. However, when labor is a creative and productive activity, it is defined and activated for its own sake regardless of the desire of capital, which is labor in politics of creative labor. The politics is to aim voluntary and autonomous activities and a field of labor’s potential and possibility. Also, it is not to be subordinate to capital, to flight the desire of capital, and to pursue alternative activities to capital fascism.
