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Is there any machine added surplus value?
Not the problem of the transfer of the value or the reproduction of the value share of the fixed capital, which Marazzi described in his essay The Amortization of the Body Machine (Marazzi 2012: 35ff.) (according to which the constant…
Was bleibt von der Welt am Ende des Monats?
Wir dokumentieren hier ein Flugblatt zur Klimakrise, das in Leipzig und Berlin verteilt wurde und weiter verbreitet werden sollte. Hier auch als PDF zum download. — Angesichts zunehmender Hitze und Waldbränden, steigender Meeresspiegel und Artensterben ist es beinahe unmöglich geworden,…
Laruelle and Capital
Each statement of non-Marxism aims at a double methodization, either as axiom or as theorem, the latter remaining entirely related to the Marxist material, which is always different symptomatologies. The specific operations of non-Marxism should also produce new theoretical objects,…
The miraculous credit creation of private banks
As early as 400 years ago, English goldsmiths began to create paper money by administering their customers’ gold coins and issuing a kind of certificate on them (indicating the amount of gold they had stored) and then lending it as…
Capital and Total Capital: The Quasi-Transcendental and the Actualisation- Virtualization Interconnection
For a further explanation of the concept of capital we refer to the French philosopher François Laruelle, who in his conception of non-philosophy, when he speaks of “unilateral duality”, first generally assumes that two or more terms and their relations…
Something in the Air and On the Road: Carbon Emission and Our Nation’s Largest Source of CO2
When talking about the environment and climate change, the conversation will inevitably turn to carbon. Often tossed into that discussion are things like emissions or your carbon footprint. But what do these terms really mean? Not just for us, but…
Paris am 21. September – Ein Rückblick auf den Acte 45
Ein schwieriger Morgen Um 9 Uhr morgens kreisen die ersten Gilets Jaunes um den Place de la Madeleine. (1) Das Polizeiaufgebot ist augenfällig umfangreich und die „Roten Zonen“, in denen alle Demonstrationen untersagt sind, waren noch nie so umfangreich wie…
Nach dem Erfolg vom Freitag sollte es eine Perspektivdebatte der Klimaaktivisten geben
Auch in der Klimabewegung können sich viele eher ein Ende des Lebens auf der Erde als ein Ende des Kapitalismus vorstellen In Berlin ging am 20.September über viele Stunden nichts mehr. Viele große Straßen waren gesperrt, dafür waren kleinere Straßen…
24/7 Capital
The rhythms of life, the ups and downs of nature and everyday life must disappear in this world; for the weakness and inadequacy of human time, its diffuse and intertwined structures”, writes Jonathan Cray, “there is no place left in…
Thinking Collective Self-Determination Through Municipalism
The book Anti-Oedipus, by the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, has an interesting insight about three types of social formation and their registration surfaces: the primitive society where all is inscribed on land, the bodies are registered on…
Capitalocene and Planetary Justice
The Capitalocene argument therefore rejects anthropocentric flatten-ing — “We have met the enemy and he is us” (as in Walt Kelly’s iconic 1970 Earth Day poster) — along with economic reductionism. To be sure, capi-talism is a system of endless…
Über Entfremdung, die Situationisten und die alltägliche Revolution
In diesem seltenen Interview äußert sich der ehemalige Situationist Raoul Vaneigem über die Revolte der Gilets Jaunes, den technischen Fortschritt und das Versagen des Intellektualismus. Es ist zuerst im englischen im ROAR Magazine erschienen. Der in Belgien geborene Schriftsteller, Gelehrte…
error & imperfection in techno-psychology (review of „Gianluca Iadema – Aphàiresis“)
The dimension of the #future has disappeared. We’re trapped in the 20th century… What it means to be in the 21st century is to have 20th century culture on hi-res screens/ distributed by high-speed Internet, actually.”1 The future has been…
Aufruf zu einer großen NACHT DER BARRIKADEN am 21. September in Paris
Schon viel Male wurden die Gilets Jaunes tot gesagt. Von den Medien, der Regierung, den Linken. Und unter uns, viele Linke sehnen nichts sehnlicher herbei als das Ende der Gelben Westen. Zu schwer zu greifen, zu schwer zu kategorisieren, zu…
Index of Power Update, 2018-19: China #2
his is an update of the statistics for my Index of Power, using data for 2018-19 and discussing what a country’s ranking reflects. The major change is that China’s rank has shifted up and it has now taken the UK’s…
Fossiles Kapital (1)
Im Jahr 2012 waren die globalen CO2 Emissionen um 58% höher als im Jahr 1990. Dies hatte unter anderem zur Folge, dass die Wirbelstürme aufgrund höherer Temperaturen in den Einzugsgebieten von Ozeanen stärker wurden und die arktischen Ökosysteme eine Reihe…
How to take back our streets: lessons from 10 months of resistance in France
This is a translation of the article ‘Comment reprendre nos rues‘ from the Cerveaux Non Disponibles website. They can be followed on Twitter via @CerveauxNon Over ten months, the Gilets Jaunes movement has managed again and again to surprise: to…
Marx and the Machine
With the reference to the phylogeny of machines, which ranges from complex tools to machines driven by motors to automatons, Marx always combines a genealogy of technology shaped by capital and thus clearly sets himself apart from a transhistorical theory…
Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality
What becomes of class when residential property prices in major cities around the world accrue more income in a year than the average wage worker? This paper investigates the dynamic of combined wage disinflation and asset price inflation as a…
Athen/Exarchia: Über die Demo vom 14.9. und ihre Interpretation in den sozialen Medien
Am Samstag, 14. September demonstrierten mehrere Tausend Menschen im Zentrum Athens gegen die jüngsten Räumungen von Squats und den staatlichen Terror im Stadtteil Exarchia. Dazu aufgerufen hatte zunächst das Bündnis NO PASARAN, andere Gruppen folgten in den letzten Tagen mit…
The gilets jaunes, an analyser of the reproduction of capitalist social relations [Temps critiques]
From lundi matin #207, 09/09/2019, reflections on the yellow vests’ movement … The gilets jaunes, an analyser of the reproduction of capitalist social relations [Temps critiques] For the irregular publication Temps Critiques (to be consulted on this free site), the…
Protests in HK: a talk with the ‘Workers Group’
The following interview was made over internet during the month of August. Comrades from different countries – some Bad Kids of the World – made questions about the anti-extradition movement to the Workers Group, a proletarian collective based in Hong…
Laruelle: The One, The Real
Laruelle tries to liberate the real and the one – terms he mostly uses as synonyms – from any determination by philosophical being. If the One is not a synonym for being, it cannot be realized in it either. The…
Deleuze/Guattari and quantum finance
Deleuze/Guattari invite us to apply at least three models of thought to the theoretical analysis of economics, by tracing the image of the current that, in their view, articulates each model. It is only the third, the molecular-performative model, that…