What follows is a long-ass Baudrillard post which began life as a collection of thoughts stimulated by Adam Wadley’s essay Transcommunism in the Transpolitical Age, a truly valiant effort to draw out some of the positive lessons in Baudrillard’s philosophy. […]
Reflections on Bionormativity “If as many Google- enabled robotic devices get installed as Google hopes, Google may soon know the contents of your fridge, your heart rate when you’re exercising, the weather outside your front door, the pattern of electricity
Biometric Technology and The Theory of Human Capital
To each his own bubble; that is the law today. Just as we have reached the limits of geographic space and have explored all the confines of the planet, we can only implode into a space which is reduced daily
1) Subjectivity: Adorno and Günther Anders The dividuum is the mockery of the anti-narcissist. It is the spawn of the hyper-dialectic. One divides into two. If the narcissist can only lose himself twice in the mirror image, in that the
Subjectivity and Machines: From Adorno to Deleuze/Guattari
This text addresses some difficulties encountered reading Deleuze and Guattari “in situation,” in order to suggest a “symptomal reading” of their historico-conceptual moment. It first reexamines the distinction between a “history of revolutions” and “revolutionary-becoming,”in order to explain the meaning
From One Conjuncture, the Other, the Afterwardsness of Guattari and Deleuze
1. Affectivity -This term designates a relation between an individualized being and the pre-individual milieu; it is thus heterogeneous to individualized reality. This is why Simondon claims that affectivity, more than perception, indicates a spirituality that is greater than the
A Short List of Gilbert Simondon’s Vocabulary
The last man living in the age of posthumanism, a small and apparently tough monster, who not only wants to have everything in his insatiability, but also wants to have it immediately, likes to have his life profit, which is
There’s some fascinating comments by Louis Armand in an essay featured in Alienist #4 that deal with Primož Krašovec’s ‘Alien Capital’: This Alien metaphor can be taken a step further, in that it exceeds the notion of simply an economic
This is caricature but we have left this idea of the actuarial reality behind for what I would call a ‘post-actuarial reality’ in which it is no longer about calculating probabilities but to account in advance for what escapes probability
The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic Governmentality to a New Rule of Law
In getting to grips with “neoliberalism”, a recommended first port of call is the published transcripts of Michel Foucault’s 1979 lecture series at the Collège de France titled The Birth of Biopolitics.[i] In those lectures Foucault demonstrated that the foundations
Another Speculation? Michel Feher on Neoliberalism and Resistance
I’ve been returning frequently in recent weeks to that momentous section from Being and Event where Alain Badiou marshals all his poetic and persuasive powers. I refer to the important meditations Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven and the “impasse of ontology” described