marxism

Waste in the Limits to Capital: How Capitalism Lays Waste to the Web of Life, and Why It Can’t Stop

Von Jason Moore / 2023-01-26 / EconoFiction / capitalism, Capitalocene, cheap four, marxism, overpollution, Waste

The general law of overpollution synthesizes these insights, highlighting three moments. It speciﬁes the relational asymmetry between surplus value and surplus pollu-tion, the latter reckoned as forms of toxiﬁcation “surplus to” the geobiological capacities to metabolize –and neutralize – wastes […]

Waste in the Limits to Capital: How Capitalism Lays Waste to the Web of Life, and Why It Can’t Stop

Marxism and Artificial Intelligence

Von Achim Szepanski / 2023-01-06 / GenericScience / animal, Artificial Intelligence, computer, digital, learning, marxism, work

The author team Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff has presented with Inhuman Power a meritorious book on AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) from a Marxist perspective. The authors define AI as the ability to make reasonable generalizations based on limited data in a

Marxism and Artificial Intelligence

Imperialism, With and Without Cheap Nature: Climate Crises, World Wars & the Ecology of Liberation

Von Jason Moore / 2022-11-29 / EconoFiction / capitalism, cheap nature, climate change, imperialism, marxism, war

The Ukraine War reflects and reinforces the exhaustion of Cheap Natures. Earlier Thirty Years Wars (1618-48, 1792-1815, 1914-45) were entwined with successive developmental crises of Cheap Nature that could be resolved through new imperialisms, new rounds of commodification and appropriation.

Imperialism, With and Without Cheap Nature: Climate Crises, World Wars & the Ecology of Liberation

Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future

Von Alan N. Shapiro / 2022-11-26 / PhiloFiction / baudrillard, hyperreality, Image, marxism, Science Fiction, simulation

My argument is that Baudrillard continuously said that “everything is simulation (or virtual)” rather than saying that “there is more and more simulation (or virtuality)” because the diagnosis of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, and hyperreality in contemporary culture is not the

Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future

Quantum Social Class: Diogenes’ search for “that third other thing”

Von Nico Mas / 2022-11-17 / NonPolitics / biopolitics, Diogenes, marxism, Precarity, Quantum sociology, Socrates

Class, for the longest time, has been conceived as inseparable from the idea of civilisation, that somehow society always gravitates towards a social stratification process that privileges some members of society over others. In many cases, as a civilisation emerges,

Quantum Social Class: Diogenes’ search for “that third other thing”

Money and Capital – Basic ideas of an updated Marxism

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-09-30 / EconoFiction / capital, commodity, equivalent, marx, marxism, money, surplus, Zero

As we have already indicated in Capitalization vol. 2 (Szepanski 2014b), the Greek economist John Milios has offered an important approach to a precise conceptual determination of the contemporary capital relation with his monetary theory of value, based on the

Money and Capital – Basic ideas of an updated Marxism

Capital after Louis Althusser. Focusing on Value-Form Analysis ¹

Von John Milios / 2022-09-24 / EconoFiction / Althusser, capital, marx, marxism, money, value-form

1 Paper presented at the Conference “Rileggere IlCapitale: La lezione di Louis Althusser”, organized by the Department of Historical Studies of the University Ca’ Foscari, November 9-11, 2006, Venice, Italy. 1. Althusser’s legacy: Capital as change of “object, theory and

Capital after Louis Althusser. Focusing on Value-Form Analysis ¹

The working class and the middle classes: Allies or foes?

Von John Milios / 2022-09-09 / EconoFiction / class, class struggle, marxism, middle class, Poulantzas

Concluding my whole analysis, and leaving aside possible isolated cases or exceptions, I may say that while a class alliance between the working class and the majority of the new petty bourgeoisie seems likely in many cases, an alliance withthe

The working class and the middle classes: Allies or foes?

The hyperreality of work

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-09-03 / EconoFiction / consumer, hyperreality, labour, labour power, marxism, production

Above, I argued that until the 1970s, social mediation through labor was characterized by an interdependence of capital and labor. This was based on the fact that capital, in its urge to exploit, was dependent on living labor, while the

The hyperreality of work

25 Theses on TIME (of Capital)

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-08-30 / EconoFiction / capital, derivatives, finance, future, marxism, speculation, time

1) Economic quantities are changeable in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from actual acts of exchange and thus, as a monetary sign,

25 Theses on TIME (of Capital)

Power, Profit & Prometheanism, Part I

Von Jason Moore / 2022-08-29 / EconoFiction / capitalism, ecology, marxism, power, prometheanism, technology

No civilization has been more Promethean than capitalism in its aspirations. Named after the Greek Titan who gave fire to humankind, Prometheanism is understood as a kind of environmental—but not (necessarily) environmentalist—strategy for the domination and management of something usually

Power, Profit & Prometheanism, Part I

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

Von Jason Moore / 2022-08-10 / EconoFiction / capitalism, digitalization, imperialism, marxism, pandemie, transnational class

Every paragraph of Can Global Capitalism Endure? sizzles with insights. Here is William I. Robinson at his best: empirically sensitive, theoretically original, politically committed. Global Capitalism, in this groundbreaking formulation, is no amalgamation: “global” plus “capitalism.” It identifies, rather, an

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

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