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25 Theses at time (of capital)
1) Economic quantities can be changed in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier of capital, has the quality of a pure quantity, whereby money is released from current acts of exchange and thus, as a monetary sign,…
Trump und Thunberg – zwei Gesichter des Kapitalismus
Die Inszenierung in Davos zeigte, wie in Zeiten des Ökologismus radikale Kritik und Opposition gegen die herrschenden Verhältnisse marginalisiert wird. Wie werden die linken Klimaaktivisten darauf reagieren? Jahrelang sorgte das Welt-Economic-Forum in Davos für wenig Interesse. Das änderte sich im…
Bichler/Nitzans “Capital of Power”
At first glance, it seems that Deleuze’s concept of structure involves a complex form of the so-called creorder, a term that appears at the forefront of the methodological findings of the economists Bichler/Nitzan. (Cf. Bichler/Nitzan 2009) If the structure is…
Metadata as a Problem for Thinking
I should have said this before, but the word itself is a monstrosity. Whosoever would attach a Greek prefix to a Latin root should be driven out of the city, egads. But let’s overlook this superficial fact, at least for…
The law of the tendentious fall of the general rate of profit in capital Bd.3
In the opinion of Georgios Stamatis, Marx, in presenting the law of the tendentious case of the general rate of profit, equates value and price, among other things, in order to disregard the effect of the so-called Wicksell effects (including…
“Sie nannten uns politische Gefangene” – Inhaftierte Gilets Jaunes erzählen ihre Geschichte
Während hierzulande in der radikalen Linken viel über Repression geklagt wird, die Erfahrung eines Knastaufenthalts aber, von den Folgen der Aktionen gegen G20 in Hamburg abgesehen, eher eine Ausnahme ist, sieht sich die Bewegung der Gelben Westen einer fast beispiellosen…
The concept of capital at Deleuze/Guattari or the anarchy of machines
The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the point in time, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods), in which per se contingent encounters (those of the flows…
Kunst und Dervivat. Die Performance des Neuen
Vortrag, gehalten an der HBK Saar Kurze Einführung zum spekulativen Kapital. Wann immer ein professioneller Trader einen Trade beginnt, so versucht er, die involvierten Risiken zu bewerten. Prinzipiell kann man heute drei Strategien des derivativen Handels unterscheiden: Arbitrage, Hedging und…
Metadata = Data
In thinking about the problem of metadata, I was reminded of an old discussion — addressed already in Protocol but worth repeating — easily summed up by the expression “metadata = data.” What I mean by this formulation is that no media-infrastructural…
Understanding France’s General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
Originally published by Radical Education Department. Written by Gabriel Rockhill. Image above by Patrice CALATAYU ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) This article was published in a slightly different version here in CounterPunch. Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker, came to power in 2017…
Kinetic Revolution: Understanding the Transversal Reality of the “Philosophy of Movement”
This is roughly where physics is at with what is now called quantum gravity theory in physics. In quantum gravity theory, space and time and all the laws of nature are not, as Einstein thought, a priori features of nature….
Only us: Ecology-against-the-State
“We, and no one else.” – There is an overwhelming scene in Todd Haynes’ latest film, Dark Waters (2019), which shows how toxic chemicals used in the production of Teflon were spilled into the Ohio River. The lawyer, who went…
Marx and the ecstatic labor force
Quite in contrast to mechanics, which defines the concept of force as the result of mutually canceling forces in their relationship to each other, Marx also seems to have always been intent, in his critique of political economy, on breaking…
Elie Ayaches and Suhail Malik’s heterodox concepts of finance: the frenzy of contingency
The heterodox positions of Elie Ayache and Suhail Malik on contemporary finance are often perceived in the haze of accelerationism, although not widely discussed. Let us first turn to the prosition of Suhail Malik. For us, the contingent price movements…
codes of Concrete Spirit
14:15 Compressions and fusions in cross-cultural dialogue simulates desert and jungle at the same time. [Preface] x “When she finally crawled into bed she felt the presence of the featureless black box in the room, emanating waves of anticipative anxiety.”…
La rue ou rien – Über die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Frankreich
Die Kämpfe in Frankreich gegen die „Reform der Rentenversicherung“ treten in eine entscheidende Phase. Zwar ist es nicht gelungen, die Arbeitsniederlegungen auszuweiten, der Traum vom „großen Streik“, der allgegenwärtige linke Wunsch nach einem Generalstreik, ja nach einem grundsätzlichen Umsturz sind…
Adorno and Laruelle: The non-identical and the real
Adorno speaks of the “non-identical being the own identity of the thing against its identifications” (Adorno, Negative Dialectic: 164). The cognition of the non-identical identifies differently from the identifying thinking, it emphasizes to say what something is, while the identifying…
Global Governance
It is easy to see today that in the course of implementing neo-liberal strategies, the state is being increasingly restricted in its function as the guarantor of social peace and compromise between the classes, while the various modes of operation…
Winter is Coming: Chile
Seit Oktober 2019 halten heftige Unruhen Chile in Atem. Die Proteste richten sich gegen das neoliberale System, welches unter dem Pinochet Regime vor mehr als 30 Jahren eingeführt wurde. Wir hatten die Gelegenheit, mit Paulo aus Santiago de Chile zu…
The Climate-Migration- Industrial Complex
Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next forty years due to global warming. It…
Analog Hall of Fame: Scale
I said before that no one has yet patented a Meaning Machine. While that’s true in the abstract, I want to talk about the two most common ways to hack around the problem. First is labor and second is scale. k-means…
Meillassoux at the Googleplex
I’ve been thinking about the old maxim “correlation is not causation.” Skeptics tend to push a strong interpretation of the maxim. The skeptics say significance doesn’t emanate from behavior; the phenomena of the world refuse to furnish their own meaning….
Globale Governance
Es ist heute leicht einzusehen, dass im Zuge der Implementierung neoliberaler Strategien der Staat in seiner Funktion als Gewährleistungsorgan des sozialen Friedens und des Kompromisses zwischen den Klassen immer weiter eingeschränkt wird, während die verschiedenen Funktionsweisen der sozialen Polizei Schritt…
Logic and the Politics of Prevention
In general, prevention is immanent to a specific time schedule. If the present future, which refers to what is expected of the future, and the future present, which designates that future that will actually occur, are not congruent, then, if…