Bio
Nicholas Ruiz III was born in New York City in 1970 and lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA. He is the author of America in Absentia (2008), Integral Reality (with Robert Hassan, forthcoming, 2011) and The Metaphysics of Capital, (2006). He is also the editor of Kritikos.
Ruiz’s work involves cultural theory and criticism, art and aural theory. His first book, The Metaphysics of Capital, articulates a theory of capital that breaks with traditional analyses that render capital a strictly social phenomenon involving modes of labor and industrial production. In his analysis, capital is a natural phenomenon rendered via the action of the genetic code capitalizing in environments. In this sense, we are all capitalists, even while seeking social transformation via new political structures. Hence, capital is what Ruiz calls a ‘currency of the code.’ His second book, America in Absentia (2008), is a cultural analysis of postmodern America.
