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…

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 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 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…

Mille Plateaux MP3 Artist: Gianluca Iadema Title: Aphàiresisbuy here: watch here Aphàiresis “Futuro anteriore/Presente continuo” Author: Gianluca Iadema Aphàiresis is a series of video music works that investigates the relationship between Materiality and Immateriality, between Presence and Metaphysics. It is…

After participating at the Sustainability Congress one day before WOC Berlin June 2019, I was thinking : what a mess…can coffee really be sustainable? Especially after the presentation from Nespresso i had to LOL ! I questioned Mr.Ranitzsch about Nespresso…

Mitte letzten Jahres schrieben @apolitAsh und @zugezogenovic (https://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak639/43.htm) über das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) und seine Instrumentalisierung durch Rechte. Ursprünglich gedacht um endlich gegen „Hate Speech“ im Internet vorgehen zu können, entwickelte sich das Gesetz schnell zu einem Instrument, um antirassistische und…

Marx has often spoken of the dwarfish and narrow-minded idea of the German petty bourgeois. Without a doubt, this also applies today to the remaining stocks of German left-wing academics and their Marx reading, as one could see again on…

In principle, fictitious capital always arises when a money owner leaves his money to another person and in return receives a title of ownership (bond, share, etc.) representing the claim to this money and its increase (e.g. in the form…

taken from here Dieser Beitrag ist das Ergebnis jüngster Diskussionen mit Protestierenden und linken Aktivisten in Hongkong. Er gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die eskalierte Konfrontation und behauptet, dass das weitgehende Wegschauen der globalen Linken ein Fehler ist. Die Bewegung…

taken from here This article is the result of recent discussions with protesters and left-wing activists in Hong Kong. It gives a short overview of the escalated confrontation and argues that the broad ignorance of the global left is a…

In this book The Patchwork of Minorities (Lyotard 1977), Lyotard writes that capital is a pseudo-organism which, since it has no metaphysics, is not even able to formulate a discourse that justifies its own truth that could explain and justify…

The world economy is currently in a phase of secular stagnation with persistently low growth rates of the real gross domestic product.1 The litanies of boundless economic growth that the representatives of capital and the imperialist states repeatedly prayed to…

Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know But I know Ein junger Mann, vielleicht auch noch ein Junge, trotzig in Vollbart und Lederjacke, steht im Hinterhof der besetzten Häuser in der Winterfeldstraße, der eher eine…

abstract In the context of ubiquitous data capture and the politics of control, there is growing individual and managerial interest in ‘pulse’, both in the literal sense of arterial pulse (now monitored through wearable technology) and in a metaphorical sense…

And if we should die tonight Then we should all die together Raise a glass of wine for the last time Ein milder Spätsommernachmittag am alten Hafen von Marseille. Die kids aus den ‘Quartiers Populaires’ sind gekommen. Haben ihre Mütter…

The last man living in the age of posthumanism, a small and apparently tough monster, who not only wants to have everything in his insatiability, but also wants to have it immediately, likes to have his life profit, which is…

If one follows the theory about technical objects as developed by the French theorist Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012), and then the statements of Frédéric Neyrat in the anthology Die technologische Bedingung (The Technological Condition, Hörl 2011), it is necessary for…

ABSTRACT Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes…

Laruelle calls for a Marxist gnosis in his essay Marx with Planck and consequently calls himself not a Marxist, but a future-oriented Marxist in search of an aleatoric teleology that has no connection with what Marxist philosophy has hitherto set…

For Gilles Deleuze, art is in a constant state of tension, inasmuch as it oscillates between the poles of chaos and order and must constantly come to schizophrenic updates if it is to break out of triangulation. In Deleuze’s work,…

In classical fascism, an organization that was at first externally and strictly hierarchically structured for the state gained dominance over the state apparatuses through the legal assumption of power, and then merged with them in a specific way, whereby the…

Und warum sie eher von Rosa Luxemburg als von Robert Misik lernen sollte Drei Tage nach den Wahlen in Brandenburg und Sachsen sind diese weitgehend von den ersten Seiten der Medien verschwunden. Schließlich ist ja die AfD nirgends stärkste Partei…

Im klassischen Faschismus gewann eine dem Staat zunächst äußerliche und streng hierarchisch gegliederte Organisation durch legale Machtübernahme die Dominanz über die Staatsapparate, um dann mit diesen in spezifischer Weise zu verschmelzen, womit das in die Krise geratene kapitalistische System beibehalten…