Designed to accelerate capitalism, logistics is key to maintaining the Western phantasm that ‘capitalism is an intelligent computer’ and to concealing the labor of those whose hands sustain its ‘operating system.’ In this SILENT WORKS interview Magdalena Taube and Krystian…

raken from alienocene 8 … “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props,” Wilderson emphasizes, suggesting that a violent structure can neither incorporate nor give justice to the pillars upon which it is built … read here

taken from Strelka Mag Moving beyond the limits of assemblage theory, thinking of the Anthropocene as a system that can be observed and studied, can help us discover new political horizons—concrete solutions to the challenges of our time. Debates over…

taken from enough is enough14 Der 1. Dezember 2018: ein historischer Tag Der Aufstand der Gelben Westen ist erst seit zwei Wochen in vollem Gange. An diesem Samstag war es der 3. Akt einer vielfältigen, unkontrollierbaren und neuartigen Bewegung, die…

The interconnection or linking of government and financial capital is written now in academic literature today as the operational-organisational state-financial nexus. (Cf. Malik 2014) This state-financial nexus (the state’s management of the economy by ministries of finance, central banks, informal…

There is much debate over the distributive share of employees in national income – how to measure it, whether it goes up or down and, of course, why it matters. But something in this debate often seems amiss. Like many…

you can download here https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/album/vienna-unground a) Cut-Up: „unground“ The inability to remember is usually associated with the paralytic symptoms of memory holes; Crypt(-ion), non-place, holey space, crack or column, formations with a degenerate whole, hidden folds or eclaves, ( )…

taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Glas zerbricht. Dicke dunkle schwarze Rauchfahnen steigen aus einem brennenden Polizeiauto, das in der Mitte der 52sten Straße abgestellt wurde. Ein weiterer schwarzer Mann wurde von der Polizei erschossen. Eine weitere Rebellion zur Verteidigung der grundlegenden…

The Class Relation Welcome back for the fourth and final lecture of ‘Marx After Growth’. I’m Sean O’Brien and this lecture series is brought to you buy the good people at the 87 press. You can find the lectures, including…

The History of Accumulation In the previous lecture on what’s been called the ‘esoteric’ Marx, I explored a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. This ‘esoteric’ Marxism, sometimes called value-form theory, finds…

Out Now on Mille Plateaux you can order on Bandcamp “Man from Sol’s album Automorph Totality brings texture to the forefront and uses rhythm to create a weaving path through the abstract world of sound he has created. It explores…

The Esoteric Marx This second lecture picks up on some key points from the first lecture to explore the ‘esoteric’ Marx, a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. I therefore want to…

This four-part lecture series asks what the Marxian critique of political economy can tell us about the twenty-first century, an historical moment marked by deindustrialization, economic stagnation, growing labour superfluity, and a political landscape in which the figure of the…

von Sandrine Aumercier, Clément Homs, Gabriel Zacarías und Anselm Jappe Übersetzung der Präsentation und des ersten Kapitels des Buches „De virus illustribus“, das demnächst am 28. August bei Crise et Critique auf Französisch erscheinen wird. taken from Soligruppe für Gefangene…

Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely movement-oriented or “kinetic” theory of the earth. This methodology has two…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

read also here 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…

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…