Designed to accelerate capitalism, logistics is key to maintaining the Western phantasm that ‘capitalism is an intelligent computer’ and to concealing the labor of those whose hands sustain its ‘operating system.’ In this SILENT WORKS interview Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki talk to political geographer Evelina Gambino about how logistical ...
capitalism, Cyborg, infrastructure, logistics, worker struggle
raken from alienocene 8
… “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props,” Wilderson emphasizes, suggesting that a violent structure can neither incorporate nor give justice to the pillars upon which it is built …
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taken from Strelka Mag
Moving beyond the limits of assemblage theory, thinking of the Anthropocene as a system that can be observed and studied, can help us discover new political horizons—concrete solutions to the challenges of our time.
Debates over the existence of climate change as the most evident process ...
taken from enough is enough14
Der 1. Dezember 2018: ein historischer TagDer Aufstand der Gelben Westen ist erst seit zwei Wochen in vollem Gange. An diesem Samstag war es der 3. Akt einer vielfältigen, unkontrollierbaren und neuartigen Bewegung, die von den Kreisverkehren ausging und bis ins Herz der Hauptstadt ...
The interconnection or linking of government and financial capital is written now in academic literature today as the operational-organisational state-financial nexus. (Cf. Malik 2014) This state-financial nexus (the state’s management of the economy by ministries of finance, central banks, informal organisations, etc. with the simultaneous existence of deterritorialising flows of ...
capital, central bank, crises, finance, financial capital, marxism, state
There is much debate over the distributive share of employees in national income – how to measure it, whether it goes up or down and, of course, why it matters. But something in this debate often seems amiss. Like many aggregates, the national income share of employees is a synthetic ...
capital, distribution, employees, income share, national account power, social inequality
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a) Cut-Up: „unground“
The inability to remember is usually associated with the paralytic symptoms of memory holes; Crypt(-ion), non-place, holey space, crack or column, formations with a degenerate whole, hidden folds or eclaves, ( ) hole complex, hidden writing, chaining mechanisms, transposition, transmission and encryption. ...
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
Glas zerbricht. Dicke dunkle schwarze Rauchfahnen steigen aus einem brennenden Polizeiauto, das in der Mitte der 52sten Straße abgestellt wurde. Ein weiterer schwarzer Mann wurde von der Polizei erschossen. Eine weitere Rebellion zur Verteidigung der grundlegenden Menschenwürde. Sir, es herrscht Chaos“, ruft einer der Cops in ...
The Class Relation
Welcome back for the fourth and final lecture of ‘Marx After Growth’. I’m Sean O’Brien and this lecture series is brought to you buy the good people at the 87 press. You can find the lectures, including recordings and transcripts, on their blog, The Hythe. Many ...
capitalist class, class relation, class stuggle, Communization, marx, marxism, working class
The History of Accumulation
In the previous lecture on what’s been called the ‘esoteric’ Marx, I explored a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. This ‘esoteric’ Marxism, sometimes called value-form theory, finds its roots in the abstract conceptual logic of Marx’s critique ...
accumulation, Arrighi, Braudel, capital, class, finance, growth, marx, marxism
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“Man from Sol’s album Automorph Totality brings texture to the forefront and uses rhythm to create a weaving path through the abstract world of sound he has created. It explores the kafka-esque aspects of modern life and the emotional tension ...
The Esoteric Marx
This second lecture picks up on some key points from the first lecture to explore the ‘esoteric’ Marx, a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. I therefore want to begin with a recap of those aspects of Marx’s work ...
commodity, Esoteric Marx, marxism, money, neue marx lektüre, value, value form, wage form
