1) Soccer, porn and pop are the cultural industries of today. 2) Clubs, players and coaches are now highly speculative financial investments. The Neymar deal with a redemption of 222 million raises world football to a new dimension. One rather…

… If the slogan of that antiwar movement, “No Blood for Oil,” seemed too great a simplification, it was not for all of that mistaken. There can be no doubt that something like racial extractivism, the intensified appropriation of cheap…

PreSales for Mille Plateaux Albums 2020 on Bandcamp here MP4 Teruyuki Kurihara. Frozen Dust (digital, vinyl) “Frozen Dust” is an album unified by the theme of “destruction” and “creation.” Inspired by the power of nature; we’ve expressed how we humans…

Laruelle often talks about the black universe and that philosophy is not dark enough. But what is black? Is black a colour and if so, can we see it? Reza Negarestani has provided a mix of theory and fiction in…

“I stopped in elementary school, but I already knew how to shoot with a Kalashnikov. We were training in the neighborhood.” A Basra resident, former militiaman1 Since the crash of the Islamic State (ISIS) in autumn 2017, Iraqi news has…

In classical fascism, an organization, initially external to the state and strictly hierarchically structured, gained dominance over the state apparatuses through legal seizure of power, only to merge with them in a specific way, thus maintaining the crisis-ridden capitalist system…

Die Regierungsvereinbarung in Österreich zeigt, wie man mit den Grünen Abschottung machen kann, wenn man nur nicht so aggressive Begriffe wählt und das Klima stimmt – Ein Kommentar Noch hält sich der Grünenvorsitzende Robert Habeck bedeckt. Die sich anbahnende Koalition…

Die irakische Regierung besteht aus allen bürgerlichen Fraktionen Iraks und wird von den Regionalmächten und der globalen Bourgeoisie akzeptiert, doch das Proletariat hat versucht, sie zu stürzen. Die „Grüne Zone“ in Bagdad ist das Zentrum des globalen Kapitalismus, das Proletariat…

Plädoyer für einen differenzierten Blick und eine Perspektive für Partizipation der Bevölkerung statt den Fokus auf die Wahlen zu richten In den frühen 1920er Jahren sorgten einige Bücher von Russlandreisenden für Aufmerksamkeit und oft für viel Abwehr. Verfasst hatten sie…

Nation-states dissolve into a global federation of dense cities counting one toten million and governed by the principle of subsidiarity. Large wilderness areasbetween these cities are left uninhabited, starting with today’s fragile ecosystems.All energy comes from renewables, all waste is…

In diesem Interview, das am 5. November 2019 in der ‘ZAD von Notre-Dame-des-Landes’ im Rahmen des Programms ‘Sortir du capitalisme’ durchgeführt wurde, blickt Leila al-Shami (1) auf die syrische Revolution zurück, von ihren Anfängen im Jahr 2011 bis zur aktuellen…

Videos, interactive screens, multimedia, the Internet, Virtual Reality: interactivity threatens us on all sides. What was once separated is everywhere merged. Distance is everywhere abolished: between the sexes, between opposite poles, between the stage and the auditorium, between the protagonists…

If it is true chat abstract machines arise neither from the subject-object phenomenological couple, nor the set-subset logical couple, and consequently escape from the semiological triangle denotation representation-signification, then how do we conceive the possibility of saying anything about them?…

Originally published by materiales x la emancipacion. Translated by Malcontent Editions The way to do it is to be it “If you don’t change direction, you could end up where you started from“ Lao Tze The capitalist control over social production requires proletarians…

Does the unconscious still have something to say to us? We have saddled it with so much that it seems to have resolved to keep silent. For a long time it was believed to be possible to interpret its messages….

Die Bewegung gegen die Pläne der französischen Regierung zur „Reform“ der Rentenversicherung geht auch über die Weihnachtsfeiertage weiter. An Heiligabend verkehrte z.B. aufgrund der Arbeitsniederlegungen ein einziger Zug von Berlin nach Paris. Innerhalb der antagonistischen und radikalen Teile der Bewegung…

Our task is not to draw a sharp mental line between past and future but to complete the thought of the past. – Marx to Ruge, September 1843 read here

Der 1935 in Mailand geborene Schriftsteller Nanni Balestrini gehört zu den wenigen, die, obwohl sie im normalen Literaturbetrieb anerkannt sind, weiterhin über die revolutionäre Bewegung der 60er und 70er schreiben. Selbst Aktivist der sozialen und Klassenkämpfe der Jahre 1968-80 in…

Equivalence and Abstraction The value forms presented so far contain an asymmetric or polar relation, whereby the property of symmetry and consequently the equivalence relation, which always includes referentiality, can already be established in the simple value form by means…

Demonstration on the 57th day of the uprising in Chile. An activist who was there on the day reports from Santiago:”On December 13th, the 57th day of the uprising, hundreds of thousands were again in the Plaza de la Dignidad, the…

In this intervention, I reflect on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism as a work better known for its title, as a phrase or slogan, than for the substance of the book. While indicative of the success of Fisher’s diagnosis, one borne…

Demonstration am 57. Tag des Aufstandes in Chile. Eine Aktivistin, die an dem Tag dabei war, berichtet aus Santiago: “Am 13.12., dem 57. Tag des Aufstands, waren wieder hunderttausende auf der Plaza de la Dignidad, dem Platz der Würde, wie die…

The man made catastrophe called climate change is already a reality for many people. This catastrophe hits those hardest, who have the least capacities of adapting to it – and the least responsibility of creating it. Given this situation, how…

general value form In order to obtain the general value form from the unfolded value form, only the simple operation of reversal is required, which implies that we are dealing virtually with a simultaneous second and third value form. Now…