The hyper-industrial state of fact takes what Deleuze called control societies, founded on modulation by the mass media, into the stage of hyper-control. The latter is generated by self-produced personal data, collected and published by people themselves – whether knowingly […]
Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present will be coming out from Zero Books on February 22nd. To sum it up briefly, the book emerged last winter from a series of notes to myself while trying to
Edmund Berger: Uncertain Futures a Review
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,
Deleuze & Guattari: Culture of Death / Culture of Capital
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. -Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract It is easier, someone once said, to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism: and with that the idea of a
Fredric Jameson – Utopia, Dystopia, and the Myth of Neoliberalism
The way I think through another’s work is to write, to question, to take notes, read parallel works that pop out of my memory, cross-reference notions, ideas, propositions, diagrams, etc., and generally push a thought to its extreme limits. As
Andrew Culp: Dark Deleuze – A Short Summary
Over on The Real Movement blog Jehu has a timely post that carefully evaluates the so-called post-capitalist notion as erroneous. He begins with the worn and obvious quote by Zizek ironizing the notion that “it’s much easier to imagine the end of
Subtraction Theory: The Future of Capitalism
“Mental illness is not the rare malady of an isolated dropout, but the widespread consequence of panic, depression, precariousness, and humiliation: these are the sources of the contemporary global fragmentary war, and they are spreading everywhere, rooted in the legacy
Franco Berardi: The Coming Civil War of the Planet
As that non-philosopher François Laruelle recently said “It is necessary to welcome a certain return of gnosis against philosophy, institutional and academic conformism (amongst other things), but we have to ask ourselves, how do we finally make room for it
François Laruelle: Future Struggle, Gnosis, and the last-Humaneity
The acceleration of information exchange has produced and is producing an effect of a pathological type… – Franco “Bifo” Berardi “The consumer society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have choice, but everything is compulsory. We
The Consumertariat: Infopocalypse and the Pathologies of Information
Looking at the picture of IMF head Christine Lagarde and German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble one gets the feeling of old partners in crime, a perfectly legal crime syndicate approved by the Eurozone and given the elite status of a
Eurozone Vampires: The Gray Club of Death
Yet, let us add that the accumulated capital is that of the Subject who has become a total image, immersed in a world of information where reality is nothing but a copy of copies. One of the first texts to
Guy Debord: Beyond the Society of The Spectacle