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 […]
24/7: Sleepless Soldiers and the Psychopathy of Civilization
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
American Dystopia: The Empire of War
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
James Lovelock: Doom is Inevitable, Have a Happy Life!
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
Media Narrative: Global Catastrophe and Climate Change
The development of the means of labour into machinery is not an accidental moment of capital, but is rather the historical reshaping of the traditional, inherited means of labour into a form adequate to capital. The accumulation of knowledge and
In the past few years both the political Left and Right of the current global machine, the “Establishment” now dictates who will be included or excluded from their dominion. Whatever the hell that is? Ah, yes, it always comes down to this bugaboo…
The Automatic Society: Technics, Memory, and Capitalism
Of course, mystery actually requires a measure of the concrete if it is to be perceived at all; otherwise it is only a void, the void. The thinnest mixture of this mortar, I suppose, is contained in that most basic source
Thomas Ligotti: Dark Phenomenology and Abstract Horror
Capital is the intelligence of the world. Capital does not need the nation state, the old mythologies of the sovereignty of nations is giving way to the logics of the Global Empire of Capital. Reactions to this state of affairs across the
The Intelligence of Capital: The Collapse of Politics in Contemporary Society
Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the worker works is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has
Capitalism as Temporal Slavery: We Are Time’s Prisoners
Karl Marx analyzing the incorporation and absorption of the human worker as a mere appendage within the machine had already seen the teleological tendency within capitalism toward our present civilization’s fascination with robotics and artificial intelligence: “once adopted into the
Alien Capitalism: Marx – Prophet of our Fractured Age?
Is the general determination of energy circulating in the biosphere altered by man’s activity? Or rather, isn’t the latter’s intention vitiated by a determination of which it is ignorant, which it overlooks and cannot change? —Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share
Bataille’s Gift: Wealth, Toxicity, and Apocalypse
Berardi makes a valid point in his critique of Srnicek and Williams Inventing the Future: “Srnicek and Williams suggest that we should ‘demand full automation, demand universal basic income, demand reduction of the work week’. But they do not explain
The Future of Decision: Governance, Algorithms, and Cognitive Bias