Interview with Lapo Berti, economist, writer for the magazine “Primo Maggio” Preface by Obsolete Capitalism The interview with Lapo Berti that follows was originally part of the collective volume Money, Revolution and Philosophy of the Future. Nietzsche and the Accelerationist…

αφνιασμένος δυσάρεστα, κυρίως από την αγριότητα του λόγου πολλών, για τον ορισμό του στη θέση του προέδρου του Φεστιβάλ Αθηνών δηλώνει ο Γιάννης Μηλιός. «Είναι σημάδι των καιρών, είναι η οργή ανθρώπων που αισθάνονται ότι προδόθηκαν με τον πιο βάναυσο…

Translated from the French by Ames Hodges. [This text is an excerpt of Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato’s forthcoming book Wars and Capital, to be published in English by Semiotext(e). The book’s release is scheduled for August 2017.] 1. We…

What does “no” say? Who and what says “no?” No’s eruptive force transforms the argumentative landscape. From two-year old children to mature nation-states, the interruptive immediacy of naysaying can occur at surprising and inconvenient moments. The ability to refuse emerges…

… Il primo motivo dell’importanza dell’azione di Szepanski, dunque, è legato al movimento verso l’esterno della filosofia deleuziana – un pensiero-rostro che uncina l’ electro , la ciberne- tica, così già predisposto nella sua stessa essenza astratta. Ne-gli anni novanta, infatti,…

1924-1929: Breton’s First and Second Manifesto of Surrealism In the preface to the 1924 First Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton describes the quintessential character of everyday life in modernity as approximating an absolute sense of alienation, from both the individual…

This is a very short summary of the analysis of financial capital, which i explored en detail in my books Capitalization1 & 2 and in Non-Marxism. Capital is a social-economical relationship, which is driven by the profit motive. A huge…

“We do not lack communication,” Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari wrote in What Is Philosophy?, their final joint text. “On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present.”[1] During the course…

Schon als Jugendlicher zeigte Alfons starke philosophische Anklänge, indem er der Figur des Idioten, einer Figur, die sich gegen jede konsensuelle Art des Urteilens zur Wehr setzt, huldigte, weil es ihm einfach nicht gelang wie die anderen zu denken, Schlüsse…

David Harvey hat in seinen letzten Beiträgen immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, dass die marxistische Theorie die Mehrwertproduktion im Dienstleistungssektor und in der Zirkulationssphäre bisher zu wenig beachtet hat. So ist es in den USA nicht mehr General Motors, sondern es…

Die hegemonial wichtigen Diskurse finden im Moment zwischen neoliberalen Positionen, die den nationalen Markt als Standort im internationalen Wettbewerb und damit Freihandel, Mobilität für das Kapital und eine begrenzte Zuwanderung von Arbeitskräften propagieren, und zwischen der rassistischen Neuen Rechten statt,…

„Join us!“ –the trees in Evil Dead A major theme to emerge from my current seminar on the nonhuman is the distinction between apophatic nonhumanism and cataphatic nonhumanism. Since these terms don’t seem to come up that often in contemporary…

Als historischer Ausgangspunkt für die neue Epoche der umfassenden Finanzialisierung wird vielfach das Ende des Fordismus Anfang der 1970er Jahre angegeben. Der Fordismus als ein spezifisch kapitalistisches Akkumulationsregime, das ein dynamisches und zugleich gleichgewichtiges Wachstum im harmonischen Zusammenspiel von Produktivität,…

In the beginning there is Black – man and Universe, rather than philosopher and World. pdf here

John Milios & Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos Short description: When does a theory really die? In the history of economic thought, it is rather common to assume that the labour theory of value ceased to exert any significant influence οn the…

In the wake of the Trump election, there has been a lot of hand-wringing and self flagellation in tech communities about the so-called “filter bubble” created by social media. Was Trump elected by Facebook? Is this “our” Twitter revolution —…

The essay moves from the conceptual place where the „philosophical plane faces the chaos“ (Deleuze-Guattari/1991).  From a deep distance trapped in the past and the discretion of the dawn, a different thought and a different culture (re)emerge. The book presents…

Desiring machines make us an organism; but at the very heart of this production, the body suffers from being organized in this way, from not having some other sort of organization, or no organization at all. – Gilles Deleuze/Fritz Guattari,…

Dear intellectuals, scientists, artists, emancipatory forces of all kinds, can we now start to think about the implementation of a Universal Basic Property und and a Universal Basic Income (of economic capital) within a new online-only currency? Starting with an…

Showtime. Samstag, der 14. Juni, 15:21 Uhr. Dr. Dr. Hanselmann öffnet eine Red Bull Dose (etwas, an dem er am liebsten seine langen, gerollten, krallenartigen Fingernägel abbricht), und schüttet 50% des Inhalts in ein halbvolles Sektglas. Bis zum Anpfiff des…

Leseprobe: dokument1 Laika Theorie hier Band 70: Achim Szepanski: Der Non-Marxismus – Finance, Maschinen, Dividuum ISBN: 978-3-944233-69-7 Erscheint zur Frankfurter Buchmesse im Oktober 2016 Preis: 38 € 558 Seiten

…Covenant technology? That’s the fusion of covenant theology and the will to technology as the essence of the American Republic, from its religious origins to its technocratic future. Here we are in the presence of a momentous alliance of two…

The tale of the circle, the dot, and the arrow — a moral tale — tells the story of a dominant way of thinking about people in the world. The most common preconceptions about epistemology and ontology are contained in…

Like Moliere’s Monsieur Jourdain, who was so surprised to learn that all these years he has been speaking prose, people are often shocked to learn that they think in concepts. It’s not just us theorists who make up funny meanings…