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”
Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists think of capital as an economic entity that they count in universal units
Capital as Power – Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism
fírst published in: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/02/05/parasites-symbiotes-and-decoys-remembering-baudrillards-contaminated-discourse/?fbclid=IwAR2ekuRmrywKG7gjsO36oonGHwIbmV3DqUvOzElVN2-GZnsFnEDvtaHD3ew The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks to comprehend an object without subsuming it under a system of concepts; without, that is, deploying
Parasites, Symbiotes and Decoys: Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse
“…the most important philosopher of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, seems to have constructed his grand philosophical design, an architecture of concepts and arguments, to sustain and safeguard the reliability of the world, the certainty of knowledge, and the stability of
In the hustle and bustle of climate scholarship it’s easy to lose sight of something fundamental about the climate crisis: it’s the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities. The climate crisis is a
Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life
The two faces of power All research on politics is flawed by a preliminary terminological ambiguity, which condemns those who undertake it to misunderstanding. Be it the passage from the third book of the Politics in which Aristotle, at the
[ part 1 & 2 of a longer essay on the past two decades of ‘militant-research’. part 3, A Feminist Internationale Assembled in a Riotous Manner‘, forthcoming] Demands, protests, petitions, graffiti, discussions, harangues, slogans, shouts, cheers and insults are so
Twenty Years of Militant-Research: La Potencia Destituyente y La Potencia Feminista (DRAFT)
Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack Spencer Beswick (The Institute for Anarchist Studies, 29/07/2022) May Day, 1987: thousands of black-clad Autonomen (“those who are autonomous”) riot in West Berlin. After a decade spent honing their street-fighting tactics,
Destituent power as living communism
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
However, it seems uncertain—if not highly doubtful—that all those with an in-fluence on the future, especially those with fossil fuel interests, will firstly comprehend projected time, then feel inclined to adopt it, and on top of that, coordinate with everyone
Diabolical Diagramming: Deleuze, Dupuy, and Catastrophe
Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a modeof power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized power and researched how capitalists sustain, defend and augment their capitalized power.
The Limits of Capitalized Power/ A 2020 U.S. Update
“…the most important philosopher of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, seems to have constructed his grand philosophical design, an architecture of concepts and arguments, to sustain and safeguard the reliability of the world, the certainty of knowledge, and the stability of