Apart from the distinction between the supra-historical dimension of use value, which is expressed in the fact that there are objects that satisfy needs at all, and the dimension of the thoroughly capitalistically structured use value qua value abstraction (which Adorno constantly denounces as a sham in his writings critical ...
baudrillard, commodity, consumption, klossowski, money, Shopping Mall, use value
Das Maß als blinder Fleck der Kapitalismuskritik
Frank Engster und
Andreas Schröder
Sohn-Rethel hat sich zur Mächtigkeit seiner erkenntniskritischen und an Kant orientierten Fragen nach der „Bedingung der Möglichkeit“ von empirisch reiner Geltung und mithin von neuzeitlicher Naturwissenschaft in kein adäquates Verhältnis setzen können. Das lag nicht an seiner Antwort, ...
capital, marx, Marxismus, Maß, money, Naturwissenschaft, Realabstraktion, Sohn-Rethel
Even the disregard for empiricism, which Sohn-Rethel places in the context of the concept of real abstraction of exchange (abstraction from use and at the same time separation of the form of exchange itself) does not really apply to the concept of abstraction; Sohn-Rethel defines an abstract reality with the ...
An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production
John Milios, Dimitri Dimoulis, George Economakis
Marx’s Critique of Political Economy constitutes not a “correction” of Classical Political Economy’s “mistakes” or “misunderstandings”, but the formation of a new theoretical domain, shaping thus a new theoretical object of analysis and ...
Presentation at the Panel Wither Real Abstraction?, Historical Materialism London Conference – Online 2020
Abstract: Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s epistemology enables a materialist account of the abstractions embodied by the species being of humanity, i.e., the “social relations” that include the questions of individual and collective subjectivation. By recourse to François Laruelle’s ...
laruelle, marx, non-philosophy, real abstraction, Sohn-Rethel
Originally published by Mute. Written by Shemon and Arturo. Image above: ‘Looting rampant’ in Philly.
Glass shatters. Thick plumes of dark black smoke pour out of a burning police car stalled in the middle of 52nd street. Another black man shot dead by the police. Another rebellion in defense of basic human dignity. ‘Sir, ...
black proletariat, blackness, capitalism, orginisation, Riot, struggle
Why Return to Lucretius?
I think a new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every period in Western history since Lucretius has returned to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. Each time, though, our return is different—like the expanding arc of a spiral. We ...
flow, folds, kinetic materialism, lucretius, marxism, matter, motion, New Materialism
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taken from the book Ultrablack of Music
A somber enthusiasm
In this essay, I don’t aim at analyzing a specific genre of music: my goal is rather to grasp a musical configuration encompassing musicians as different as Gérard Grisey, Sunn O ))), Thomas Köner, Chloé, Emptyset or ...
clicks & cuts, drone, ecology, electronic music, mille plateaux, spectral composition
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
Wie können wir diese „zweite Einschließung“ verstehen? Was geschieht mit uns? Das ist es, was Aclin in dieser ausgezeichneten Analyse zu entschlüsseln versucht. Beginnend mit dem Bild der neuen „Validation Gates“, die jetzt den Zugang und den Verkehr auf den Bahnsteigen vieler Bahnhöfe regeln, zeichnet er ...
Es ist wesentlich zu erkennen, dass die Ökonomie von den Ökonomen (den vorherrschenden, neoklassischen) selbst als eine Art „technisches Super-System“ betrachtet wird. Niemals ist vom „Kapitalismus“ die Rede, oder gar von der „herrschenden Finanzwelt“, da ist nichts, was „politisch“ analysiert werden könnte; die Ökonomie ist einzig und allein „Technik“, allumfassend. ...
The Poor Way
We will pay tribute to the great Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben, the anti-Badiou par excellence.
And we will, in particular, try to illustrate one of the last books of the Homo Sacer series:
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms-of-Life. Homo Sacer IV, 1 (2011).
This book ...
Agamben, capitalism, economy, non-economy, technology, the poor
The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1 These three concepts are especially developed in the longest and most important essay of the book, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat”. 2 I will bring ...
class, communism, consciousness, featured, history, Lukács, marxism, money
