Post by: Achim Szepanski
1) For Laruelle, philosophy always revolves around dualities or differences, being – other, theory – practice, ontic-ontological, etc.
2) Laruelle leaves this terrain to fully invest his thinking power in the solutions of the One’s problem, or more precisely to develop an irreversible thinking in one or according to the ...
althusser, determination in the last instance, laruelle, marxism
One should by no means identify the abstract time of capital with a linear and homogeneous order of time, in which, in a continuous flow of time running ahead on the time stream, each time stage simultaneously excludes the other (past – present – future), ergo with a linear time, ...
Frédéric Neyrat Spectral Composition: on Spectral Music, Drone Metal, and Electronic Music
Frédéric Neyrat The Messianic Messing-Up
Achim Szepanski Ultrablack of Music
Holger Schulze Sonic Thanaticism. A Sensology of The Sonic Capital
Algorithmic Committee The Scream and the Sound of the Flesh
Marcus Schmickler&Julian Rohrhuber Politics of Frequency
Stefan Paulus ...
deleuze/guattari, inhuman, mille plateaux, nano fascism, rhythm, Sonic Thanaticism, Spectral Music, ultrablack of music
Today, on the one hand, we are seeing rising rents and the infamous gentrification, vertical housing construction and expensive condominiums in the centres of large cities, monstrous large-scale projects and massive urbanization processes in the emerging countries and peripheries, and on the other hand, the increase in urban poverty, vacancies ...
In his book How Noise Matters to Finance, which is well worth reading, Knouf points first and foremost to traditional ideas about the stock market, such as the control of the market by the famous invisible hand, the dreams of balance, transparency, explainable price movements and correct prices, All in ...
Even for Marx, an important consequence of extracting added value in the production of goods is that the added value is transformed into what we now call an asset. In this context, the asset is a means of preserving added value on the one hand and of accumulating it on ...
Dirk Baecker writes in a current article: “Capital too must not be thought in singular terms, but in plural terms”. If he then immediately jumps to the competition, he follows a trail without being able to represent and explain connections. The miracle formula is called: Singular=Plural. We will show that ...
Interview with Autonomie Magazin and Achim Szepanski
Achim, you published three books in 2018 alone. The Introduction to Economics “Capital and Power in the 21st Century”, a book with three essays on “Imperialism, State Fascisation and the War Machines of Capital” and, together with Karl-Heinz Dellwo and J. Paul Weiler, ...
Marx has assigned the financial instruments exclusively to the sphere of circulation and analysed their function separately from the functioning of the technologies or physical means of production, which preserve the past wealth and at the same time enable a future demand for goods produced. In Marx’s case, when it ...
The fact that struggles for reproductive conditions or circulation struggles are increasing again worldwide at the moment is no coincidence. In France in particular, they are increasing in intensity from week to week with the Yellow West. The shifts are easy to understand there, the radicalism of the Riots, the ...
In modern international law, territory, state power and population are generally regarded as important components of the sovereign nation-state. In the Marxist theoretical tradition inspired by structuralism, Nicos Poulantzas, following and in contrast to Louis Althusser’s analyses of the ideological state apparatuses (Althusser 1977), described the state somewhat more elaborately ...
althusser, deleuze/guattari, Poulantzas, Staatsapparat, Staatstheorie
Auch wenn man jeden einzelnen Aufstand auf die eigene politische Dynamik untersuchen muss, so antworten die Aufstände doch fast ausnahmslos auf die globale Krise von 2008. Während Mexiko, Zentralamerika und die Karibik aufgrund ihrer Integration in den US-Markt direkt von der Krise betroffen waren, trat die Krise in Südamerika mit ...
As a pure form of the “alienation of the capital relationship”, as Marx writes, money and capital markets emerge, which today confirm day by day that credit money, government bonds and synthetic securities as fictitious or speculative capital determine the economy in the last instance. And when Vilém Flusser writes ...
In his current essay “Europa Fata Morgana” Georg Seeßlen speaks of post-democracy as a permanent state of emergency, in which the multiple crises (war against terror, financial crisis, Greek crisis, refugee crisis, etc.) fulfilled the function of maintaining it. Seeßlen writes: “The state of emergency can only be maintained if ...
While there are important parallels between the national market and the world market, the latter is not simply a subcategory of the latter. A more detailed analysis of the world market reveals that it is more than just the aggregation of states and enterprises, namely a complex structure, a chain ...
Capital as Power, finance, imperialism, logistics, marxism, world market
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 quasi-money, without any further savings being made. Since it rarely ...
Lyotard writes that capital is a pseudo-organism that is not even able to formulate a discourse that establishes its own truth, since it has no metaphysics to explain and justify its existence. The statement made by the Invisible Committee that we live in a world without justification has been true ...
A) Nietzsche and the music
Nietzsche’s work Die Geburt der Tragödie deals in depth with music. The book explains that the tragedy originated in the dithyrambos, where lyric poetry was danced and entered into the drama in which music was given the task of tuning the soul into the tragedy ...
In her book Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Shosana Zuboff describes Facebook & Co as the masters of radical indifference. A new accumulation logic emerges in which the surveillance capital extracts human behavior and its seemingly useless surpluses, that is, absorbs data combined with other data to feed intelligent machines and ...
“There are decades when nothing happens. And there are weeks in which decades happen.”
Lenin Be
it France, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Catalonia or Chile – the uprisings mark the beginning of a new cycle of
struggles.
The current Riots open up a political ...
chile, circulation, class struggle, featured, riots, world order
“Es gibt Dekaden, in denen nichts passiert. Und es gibt Wochen, in denen sich Dekaden abspielen.” Lenin
Sei es Frankreich, Hongkong, Ecuador, Haiti, Ägypten, Algerien, Libanon, Irak, Katalonien oder Chile – die Aufstände markieren den Beginn eines neuen Zyklus von Kämpfen.
Die derzeitigen Riots eröffnen eine politische Situation mit polaren ...
Aufstand, chile, gilet jaunes, Imperialismus, Kampfzyklus, Polizei, Riot, Zirkulationskampf
If one wants to follow the Japanese philosopher Kojin Karatani, Marx has posed the problem of the value form and value in the course of the theoretical treatment of the antinomy of intrinsic value and value relativism. (Cf. Karatani 2003) For Marx, this problem presented itself as follows with regard ...
Deleuze’s philosophy of virtuality has simply put the non-creationist construction of problems, concepts and their relations before interpretation. Similarly, Althusser has formulated this in several passages of Das Kapital Lesen 1 when he writes that the production of a problem constellation and the concepts unfolding it is to be understood ...
