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Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music

Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is…

Weltmarkt, Governance und Staatsparanoia

In einem Text aus dem Jahr 1973, der im Kursbuch erschien, hat der Soziologe Manfred Clemenz den Begriff des strukturellen Staatsfaschismus eingeführt, wobei der Autor voraussetzt, dass es keine grundlegenden funktionalen Unterschiede zwischen den Formen der parlamentarischen Demokratie und den…

THEODOR ADORNO & MASS CULTURE

Introduction Too many people talk about Theodor Adorno, and not enough people go through the difficult but bracing task of reading his texts. He is an easy man to caricature, because he believed in exaggeration as a means of reaching…

Enjoy your vacation!

Conclusion: Vacation as fetish To Žižek, a fetish is an ‘embodiment of the Lie which enables us to sustain the unbearable truth’ (Žižek, 2001b: 13). The subject ‘rationally’ accepts the truth, yet is only able to do so because she…

Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You

Introduction The following article was written in the early months of 2015. It is the result of a series of discussions and readings by the Surplus Club in Frankfurt am Main in accordance with the topic of the 2007-08 crisis…

Imperialism or (and) Capitalist Expansionism

Abstract This paper critically reviews some fundamental theses of the theories of imperialism. It claims that a theory of imperialism, if based on Marx’s theory of capitalism, shall on the one hand reject the traditional monopoly-capitalism approach and on the…

24/7: Sleepless Soldiers and the Psychopathy of Civilization

On first reading Johnathan Crary’s new book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep  I wondered if I’d shifted into some dark  psychopathic journey into the heart of darkness where citizens have become machines, augmented cyborgs in a sleepless universe of…

The Political Centrality of the Migrant

Political theory in the twenty-first century is at an interesting crossroads where migration has reached such a critical threshold that what seemed to be an exception has now become the rule. The question now is how to understand the rules…

Memes and the Reactionary Totemism of the Theft of Joy

“Note how they talk about animals, and are moved by them. They make a list of affects. These affects circulate and are transformed within the assemblage.” Deleuze & Guattari In the summer of 2016 a meme about a sacrificial animal…

Magmatische Autonomie

Gegen den zeitgenössischen Trend einer Verkümmerung der Gesellschaftskritik behaupten sich im Augenblick nur wenige Theorien. Sie ragen wie einsame Inseln aus dem Meer der neokonservativen Zeitdiagnosen und modischen Verfallsprognosen. Unter den Theorien, die in diesem Sinn dem Zeitgeist sich widersetzen,…

Volatile States

Haiti is home to the slave rebellion that became arguably the great revolution of the modern world. For its trouble, totally not-racist liberal democratic nations punished it systematically until it was one of the poorest nations on the planet. Except…

American Dystopia: The Empire of War

Capitalism and neoliberalism carry wars within them like clouds carry storms. —Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato, To Our Enemies Henry Miller the ex-patriot who would return to his native land just before the rise of Hitler had a glimpse into…

Some comments on Andreas Malm’s ‘Fossil Capital’

Moreover Malm has transposed Marx’s argument on the organic composition of capital (the ratio of dead to living labor, increasing over time and producing a falling rate of profit) into a rising fossil composition of capital.[15] “[O]perating over the span…

James Lovelock: Doom is Inevitable, Have a Happy Life!

Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics. Britain is going to become a lifeboat for…

Media Narrative: Global Catastrophe and Climate Change

We’re living in a moment of shifting realities, it’s as if we are living in a post-Apocalyptic novel whose main character is in total denial. As if in our simulated probability systems we’ve seen the shadow on the screen of futurity, but are…

Against Fortress Leftism

Free movement over markets is a minimum demand. In the most recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left) secured the fifth most seats in the Bundestag, the nation’s parliament. At the same time, nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) came third,…

Die weltweite Ungleichheit – immer exzessiver, immer unerträglicher

Der „Weltungleichheitsbericht 2018“ von Piketty, Alvaredo und anderen: Die „soziale Frage“ ist global und sie wird immer dringlicher Dem neuen World Inequality Report ist ein Motto Thomas Pikettys vorangestellt: „Ungleichheit ist immer dann ein Problem, wenn sie exzessiv wird.“ Und…

Das Kapital – vom nihilistischen Operator zum suizidalen Faschist

Lyotard schreibt, dass es sich beim Kapital um einen Pseudo-Organismus handele, der nicht einmal in der Lage sei, eine Diskurs zu formulieren, der seine eigene Wahrheit begründe, da es über keine Metaphysik verfüge, die seine Existenz erklären und rechtfertigen könnte….

Die Rechte und die Israelsolidarität

Warum der Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus davon befreit werden muss, als Legitimationsideologie eines Staates und dessen Regierung zu dienen Es scheint einer jener periodisch auftretenden Flügelkämpfe der Restlinken, wenn nun mehrere linke Initiativen zum Boykott des Leipziger Kulturzentrums Conne Island[1]…

Kriegsmaschinen des Finanzkapitals, Staatsfaschisierung und Krieg

Die folgenden Bemerkungen beziehen sich auf das kürzlich erschienene Buch „Wars and Capital“ von Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato. Man kann nach Ansicht der Autoren den Ausnahme- oder Sicherheitsstaat nicht mehr allein im Bezug zum Gesetz denken, wie Agamben das…

GLOBAL IMPERIALISM AND THE GREAT CRISIS (pdf)

The main thesis of this book is that contemporary globalization is bringing about a type of imperialism that differs fundamentally from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The most significant difference is that the great capitalist firms, by becoming…

The Autocatalytic Sprawl of Pseudorational Mastery

According to Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan capital is not an economic quantity but a mode of power [29]; it could be sumarized as: “Capital is power quantified in monetary terms”. So, what do we do when we “quantify”? What…

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