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Gilets Jaunes im globalen Kontext

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…

THE SPECULATIVE CAPITAL (3)

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…

THE SPECULATIVE CAPITAL (2)

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…

Ultra-Left FAQ

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…

THE SPECULATIVE CAPITAL (1)

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…

THE AGE OF SPECULATIVE CAPITAL AND GLOBAL CIRCULATION FIGHTS

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…

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES BEYOND THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA

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…

Gilets Jaunes – Zwischen Widerspruch und Hoffnung

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…

Gibt es einen maschinellen Mehrwert?

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…

WORLD MARKET, GOVERNANCE AND STATE PARANOIA

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…

Time & History

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…

Neue, alte Herren in Griechenland Teil 1 – Der repressive Angriff

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…

CAPITAL IS FINANCE – THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MARXIST FINANCIAL THEORY

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,…

SPECULATIVE TIME, DEBT AND CLASS POLITICS

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…

Blockades and Border Walls

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…

Umherschweifen bei den Gelbwesten

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…

Release: ‘Network Ensemble – Flash Demons’

‘Network Ensemble’s new release “Flash Demon” is now available on Force Inc. / mille plateaux. Be sure to check it out: https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/album/flash-demons

The Revolutionary Disaster / The Disaster of Revolution

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…

Die Liebe

“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…

Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction

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…

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