Dies ist ein erster Versuch, die Bewegung der gilets jaunes zu verstehen und sie auf den Kontext übergreifender Zusammenhänge zu beziehen. Wir müssten nun, unseren sozialrevolutionären Grundsätzen und Methoden folgend, an den Äußerungen aus dieser Bewegung anknüpfen um von hier…

Nothing exemplifies the constitution of the market and motivations today more than speculation. The drive to permanently generate this type of derivative bet, which has marked the Euro-American financial markets since the 1970s, would never have been able to circulate in…

Since 1997, when it ceased to be the last major colonial holding of Great Britain, Hong Kong has been a part of the People’s Republic of China, while maintaining a distinct political and legal system. In February, an unpopular bill…

LiPuma examines in a further section the various institutions of speculative capital. The first area is commercial and investment banks speculating on the derivatives markets. These companies have in-house hedge funds that speculate on corporate capital, that is, shareholder capital, using leveraged…

The negation of work is the name of the process which abolishes work. The conversation around the abolition of work can get confusing because different theorists who write on this subject sometimes use the terms labor & work interchangeably, while…

Here we present in three parts a preliminary report to the book The Speculative Capital , which contains the first comprehensive study of a new form of capital that dominates the economies of the 21st century. In this report, we often refer to…

Michel Feher claims in his new book, Rated Agency, that capitalized capitalism, which started in 1970, is akin to a Copernican revolution in that the new regime of capital accumulation no longer focuses on industrial companies based on vertical integration and…

…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures. —Edmund Berger Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his…

Freedom is what produces negentropy, it is what generates negentropic acts. Freedom does not mean the freedom to choose between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola: it is the freedom to combat an entropic state of fact in order to establish a new…

Die Gilets Jaunes, die sogenannten„Gelbwesten“, und die wöchentlichen Riots auf den Straßen Frankreichs liefern jede Woche aufs Neue Bilder eines rebellischen Frankreichs von Paris bis Lyon. Doch dass Menschen aus den unterschiedlichsten sozialen Milieus, dass Banlieu-Kids, die Basis der Gewerkschaften…

Nicht das Problem um die Übertragung des Werts bzw. der Reproduktion des Wertanteils des fixen Kapitals, das Marazzi in seinem Essay Die Amortisation der Körper-Maschine (Marazzi 2012: 35ff.) behandelt (dem zufolge das konstante Kapital durch die Operation der Übertragung zweimal…

In a text from 1973, which appeared in the Kursbuch, the sociologist Manfred Clemenz has introduced the concept of structural state fascism, the author assumes that there are no fundamental functional differences between the forms of parliamentary democracy and the…

transcript of a talk for the Radical Philosophy Association’s Fall conference ] I would like to begin with a passage from Giorgio Agamben’s 1978 essay, ‘Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,’ since it will serve to…

Viereinhalb Jahre, nachdem SYRIZA die landesweite Revolte gegen das IWF Spardiktat beerbt und sich eine Agonie über das Land gelegt hatte, hält die Rechte unter der Führung der Nea Dimokratia wieder die Schalthebel der politischen Macht in den Händen. In…

“Where am I?” asks the sleeper who wakes with difficulty. He doesn’t recognize the room, the furniture. It is too dark; lingering parts of the dream slip into the surroundings, giving them a strangely worrying air. But are we not…

The “financial deregulation” since the 1970s has paradoxically in themselves the capacity and increase the demand for regulation, regulatory instruments, and regulatory agencies. The strengthening of market mechanisms at all levels requires a number of public, sub-state, and especially private,…

Many of the catchy testimonies of critical sociologists, ranging from Richard Sennett to Elena Esposito, are that the future is always some distance from the present, protected from the here and now and not as an economic resource in the…

An excerpt from the afterword of the updated paperback edition of Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua Clover, Are we in the early history of climate riots? What is already apparent is the state’s willingness to seize this situation on behalf of capital…

Die Gruppe translib nähert sich den Gilets jaunes in der Art der Situationisten In den letzten Wochen war es ruhig geworden um die Bewegung der Gelbwesten in Frankreich. Doch am 14. Juli, dem französischen Feiertag zum Jahrestag der Revolution von…

In recent weeks, the tensions between the United States and Iran have threatened the West Asia with a new war. The representations and coverage of “the evidence” about the threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran have reminded many American…

Our world is awash with disaster. The cheapest explanation would be to dismiss it all as wish fulfillment. That account takes the apocalypse to be the playing out of impossible fantasies. On the one hand, it delivers the satisfaction of…

“First of all, social media, quite frankly, is the toilet of the internet and what it’s done to pop culture is abysmal,“ sagt Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta* um im zweiten Teil des Satzes anzudeuten, dass neben dem Internet als Chat Room…

Thesis 1: The first thesis argues that the migrant is foremost a socially constitutive figure. That is, we should not think of the migrant as a derivative or socially exceptional figure who merely travels between preconstituted states. The movement and…