(Polizeiaufgabengesetz / Psychisch-Kranken-Gesetz / Gesetz zur effektiveren Überwachung gefährlicher Personen) Bereits bei der Verschärfung der Paragraphen §113/114/125 StGB, die pünktlich vor der Protestwoche gegen G20 erlassen wurden, war offensichtlich, dass es sich um maßgeschneiderte Gesetze des politischen Strafrechts handelt, die sowohl …

Reflecting on the last thirty years of techno music, I am not alone thinking that it has decelerated. By deceleration, I mean that since the 1980s the beat per minutes of techno music – which varies, usually, between 120 and …

Wir registrieren heute auf der einen Seite steigende Mieten und die berüchtigte Gentrification, den vertikalen Wohnungsbau und teure Eigentumswohnungen in den Zentren der Großstädte, zudem monströse Großprojekte und massive Urbanisierungsprozesse in den Schwellenländern und Peripherien, und auf der anderen Seite …

If the face is in fact Christ, in other words, your average ordinary White Man, then the first deviances, the first divergence-types, are racial: yellow man, black man, men in the second or third category…They must be Christianized, in other …

Für Austausch mit dem Autor schreibt an: raoul-hamlet@riseup.net Haupt- und Grundwiderspruch In jüngster Zeit sind einige Texte zum Thema Klassen- und Identitätspolitik erschienen (z.B. Dowling/van Dyk/Graefe 2017 und Mezzadra/Neumann 2017). In dieser Debatte ist auch der Begriff des Hauptwiderspruchs aufgetaucht. Unseres Erachtens …

…So, for me, I think secrecy is absolutely important. And yes, this goes against certain democracy theories and certain social-democratic approaches to Marx’s politics, but there have been a lot of communists who have operated in secrecy. There are 9th …

If there is one conviction shared by the majority of contemporary philosophers, this is it: the one is not [l’un n’est pas]. . .Once affirmed, this conviction converts smoothly into various systems of thought, until either every attestation of the …

taken from ediciones-ineditos   In the wake of the riot of Mexican-Americans in East Los Angeles on August 29, 1970 (with an encore on September 16), the various mouthpieces of the “left” have as usual raised their tiresome duststorm of protest, which …

THE STRUGGLE These guys I’d talked to about the struggle couldn’t accept it, they didn’t know what the fuck to do. They didn’t understand what I was proposing. They felt somehow that what I was proposing was right, but they didn’t …

Distinct types of high frequency trading firms include independent proprietary firms, which use private funds and specific strategies which remain secretive, and may act as market makers generating automatic buy and sell orders continuously throughout the day. Broker-dealer proprietary desks …

by Ray Patel and Jason W. Moore   The most telling symbol of the modern era isn’t the automobile or the smartphone. It’s the chicken nugget. Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the …

In historical phenomena such as the revolution of 1789, the Commune, the revolution of 1917, there is always one part of the event that is irreducible to any social determinism, or to causal chains. Historians are not very fond of …

We have entered a time of logistics space. Contemporary capitalism is organized as a dispersed but coordinated system, where commodities are manufactured across vast distances, multiple national borders, and complex social and technological infrastructures. Geopolitical economies that were previously governed …

Laruelle, François. Nietzsche contre Heidegger. Payot: Paris, 1977, p. 9-20. Translated by Taylor Adkins 1. THE TWO POLITICS OF NIETZSCHE Thesis 1: Nietzsche is the revolutionary thinker who corresponds to the era of Imperialism in Capitalism, and more specifically to the era of Fascism in …

Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba afreeman@iwgvt.org www.geopoliticaleconomy.org 5 May, 2018 Nichts ist schwerer und nichts erfordert mehr Charakter, als sich in offenem Gegensatz zu seiner Zeit zu befinden und laut zu sagen: Nein. – Tucholsky Zu sagen was ist, bleibt die revolutionärste …

Nach den umfangreichen Werken Kapitalisierung I und II und Non-Marxismus legt Achim Szepanski im Hamburger Laika Verlag nun sein bislang zugänglichstes Werk vor, Kapital und Macht im 21. Jahrhundert. Das als Einführung in die hier finanzielles Kapital genannte Thematik konzipierte …

Contemporary capitalism is characterized on the one hand by ‘liberalization’ of markets, flexibility and restructuring of production structures in a direction undermining the workers’ rights and living standards, and on the other by a huge expansion of the financial sphere. …

Das Buch ist unlesbar! Geben wir es zu, und obendrein: es hat damit etwas auf sich. Nach Gilles Deleuze, und unser Autor hat ihn lieb, diesen Gilles Deleuze, nach ihm ungefähr ist das Glück die Freude sich glücklich verausgabt zu haben. Freude, …

… Michel Foucault hat in seinem wohl bekanntesten Werk „Überwachen und Strafen“ die These aufgestellt, dass das Gefängnissystem Delinquenz produziert und nicht etwa dazu dient Straftaten zu verhindern. Diese These besagt, dass das Gefängnis sich deshalb durchgesetzt hat, weil es …

… The nomad is the name of themigrant expelled from the territory, the barbarian is the name of the migrant expelled from political status or citizenship, the vagabond is the name of the migrant expelled from the juridical order, and …

During May 1968, students and workers in France united in the biggest strike and the largest mass movement in French history. Protesting capitalism, American imperialism, and Gaullism, 9 million people from all walks of life, from shipbuilders to department store …

At the very beginning of  Technics and Time, I pointed out that when Marx posits in  Capital that we require a theory of technical evolution, which would be an extension of Darwinian theory, he at the same time raises the …

Neither of the figures in my title – Walter Benjamin and The Baader Meinhof Group – are in any direct way associated with 1968 – indeed each brackets it in time. The one, Benjamin, was long dead by the time …

The capitalization ritual consists of discounting riskadjusted expected futur e earnings to their present value. The  reduction involves fourelementary particles: (1) future earnings, (2) investors’ hype regarding these earnings, ( 3) risk perceptions associated with earnings  estimates and (4) the …