…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world […]
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies
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
The systemic order of the capital economy is generated in and by continuous disorder: just as order cannot be equated with the optimum of regularity, disorder cannot be identified with the absence of order or with pure chaos. According to
Notes on Anwar Shaikh: Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
“The ‘dominion of capital’ is an accomplished teleological catastrophe, robot rebellion, or shoggathic insurgency, through which intensively escalating instrumentality has inverted natural process into a monstrous reign of the tool.” – Nick Land, Teleoplexy: Notes on Accleration “Socialism has
Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration
Everything becomes imperceptible, everything is becoming-imperceptible on the plane of consistency, which is nevertheless precisely where the imperceptible is seen and heard. It is the Planomenon, or the Rhizosphere, the Criterium (and still other names, as the number of dimensions
The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere
As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies
We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction
Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”
Counter-dancing greets the philosophers Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze. It resonates with the principle of rhizomatic action. Rhizomatic dancing links one’s selves, joys and desires coupled with capitalistic technology with those of others in a flat manner. Read here and
The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish and how Kittler posits human beings as
Human Material in the Communication of Capital
The Fundamental Questions and Research Programmes for a Study into the NETFrançois LaruelleIn Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020), p.85-98 This is a table of the main questions towards a critique of Technological Reason: I. EVALUATION OF THE “PHILOSOPHIES
Autonomies share below an interview with Yuk Hui for the french magazine, Ballast (09/07/2020). “Change the system”, “fight the system”, “profit from the system”: the space of politics and the media is saturated with this reference – a world order
From the universality of progress to cosmotechnics