Die Bedrohung durch eine Katastrophe wird durch die Bedrohung durch andere aufgeschoben” (T. Adorno) Wir sollten nie das Gesamtbild aus den Augen verlieren. Die Reihe von geopolitischen Konflikten, die wir erleben (die in der Regel von den Konzernmedien vorweggenommen und […]
Unsere Zone des Interesses: Der Lärm der permanenten Kriegsführung
At first glance, it would appear that Deleuze’s concept of structure involves a complex form of so-called creorder, a term that appears at the forefront of the methodological findings of the economists Bichler/Nitzan. (Cf. Bichler/Nitzan 2009) If the structure is
Key points on Bichler/Nitzan’s text “Capital as Power”
Information is a central concept for Jonathan Beller’s book World Computer. For Beller, the drastic increase of information implies the possibility of concluding a derivative contract on any phenomenon, which does not mean anything else than that the existence of
Jonathan Bellers`s World Computer – The automatic Horror of liquid Super-World-Capital
Exzerpt from the book “In the Delirium of the Simulation. Baudrillard Revisted” : https://non.copyriot.com/in-the-delirium-of-the-simulation-baudrillard-revisited-by-achim-szepanski/ At important points in his study, Beller turns to the transformation of Marx’s reproduction cycles. The movement from image to code and back to a transformed
Excursus on Jonathan Beller’s World Computer
n the late 1960s and 1970s, as a result of the students’ movement in West Germany, a broad debate arose about Marx’s critique of political economy. Traditional views were questioned and different attempts at a ‘reconstruction’ of Marx’s critique were
The fact that financial products are not only instruments of circulation, but also provide means for the accumulation of real wealth, is a problem that Marx briefly explores. It must be further demonstrated, however, what role financial capital and financial
It is usually known that towards the border, when seen from the world interiors of capital, the air becomes colder, today one should rather say hotter, and thus the living conditions become worse, the danger grows that one could encounter
Now the processuality of capitalist machines releases complex, differential and problematic relations that have emerged historically through the contingent encounter or the external conjunction of generally decoded flows, the capital-money flows with the labor flows. (Cf. Deleuze/Guattari 1974: 287ff.) Since
The concept of capital in Deleuze/Guattari
Baudrillard speaks of life as a process of accumulation, which is subject to an increasingly quantitative valuation, especially in the course of the economization of science and biomedical techniques, whereby the transition from life to life capital has indeed succeeded.
The economic last Oiling – Life Capital
lecture at University Hamburg 17.1.2024 “Overfished, overvalued, overcommunicated, overbranded, overaesthetized, overmedicated, overmonitored, overvirtualized, overmedialized” (Kroker, Krooker, Cook 1989: 13). Today, it is speculative capitalization in particular – inextricably linked to the rise of networked computers – that has led to
Capitalism in Times of Catastrophe (lecture)
In general, you can only admire capitalism the longer you spend with it. Marx probably felt very much the same way; in the end, he no longer knew what could replace it. The chapter on communism at the end of
Liu Zhiqin, Senior Researcher, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China His talk on the launch of the book. We are currently in an era of great change, the likes of which we will not see again in
Financial Capital in the 21 Century (in China)