Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on […]
The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy
Spyros LapatsiorasUniversity of Crete, spirosla@gmail.comJohn MiliosNational Technical University of Athens, john.milios@gmail.com1. The prevailing heterodox approaches to neoliberalism and financializationA crucial aspect of many heterodox approaches to modern capitalism, finacializationand crisis is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of
Global finance as capital rule. The “creative” role of the ECB
How does one begin to broach the question of linkage, passage, and reflexivity to be found in the theories and practices of anarchism, the radical post-psychoanalysis of Felix Guattari, and the ontological framework that has been ushered in the necessity
SCHIZOANALYSIS AS ANTHRO-ECOLOGY
The Real Phenomenal Content of the ‘Multitudo Transcendentalis’The first task is to get rid of the fantastical image, the circular projection that the unitary paradigm gives of People, Individuals or Ordinary Man. In particular, we must get rid of this representation of
The Essence of The People or The Peoples (of) The One
Difference and Identity: Theses on the Future of ThoughtFrançois LaruelleIn En tant qu’un: la « non-philosophie » expliquée aux philosophes (Paris: Aubier, 1991), p.116-121 I) Philosophy, or the domination of Difference over Identity1) In the history of philosophy, Difference and Identity have
Difference and Identity: Theses on the Future of Thought
In one of the few passages of Laruelle on economics it says: “We distinguish exchangeability or translation as encompassed within a general element which is necessarily philosophical in kind or convertibility which regulates this exchange, from unilateral translation or translation
Determination-in-the-last-instance in the economy
In Philosophie non-standard: générique, quantique, philo-fiction (Paris: Kimé, 2010), p.51-64 Along with the acronyms that we use, we add this glossary of notions proper to the generic treatment of the Quantum. It sums up necessary theoretical notions for the preparation of the
“The Glossary of the Generic Quantum,” from Philosophie non-standard
Published a century after Marx’s Capital, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was described upon its release as ‘the Capital of the new generation’ (Le Nouvel Observateur). However, the book’s content has almost never been seriously examined alongside the
From the commodity to the spectacle: Debord’s Marx
Marx’s study of the species being of humanity institutes itself as a science thatdeals with value production and the relation of value to material reality. Thisis obviously a metaphysical question, but the suggested approach is scientific.Therefore, the science to be
Formalism of materialist reason
This article sets out the foundatons of an axiomatc theory of value and money. Its purpose is to equip the public to explain the four facts that define the modern capitalist economy: the long-term post-war decline of the economies of
A General Theory of Value and Money (Part 1: Foundations of an Axiomatic Theory)
Minor Rationalism entails the synthesis of two schools of thinking currently happening online. The two camps are “libidinal materialism” and “neo-Rationalism.” Thinkers of the first camp include Bataille, Klossowski, Lyotard, Deleuze & Guattari, early Nick Land and CCRU. Thinkers of
Selections from Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020), p.103-136. The bind-of-the-book [le rez-du-livre]Barely honoured by philosophy, will the book have the chance to be thrown off the shelves that stock and sell it, thrown out from catalogues
The Jabès-Book and the Techno-Biblio-Logical Continuum