Nikhil Pal Singh und Joshua Clover 1) Ist der Neoliberalismus am Ende? Beim Blick aus dem nordatlantischen imperialen Kern heraus schien es noch im letzten Frühjahr Grund zu geben, diese Möglichkeit zumindest zu erwägen. Bei dem Versuch, über die Politik […]
Immortality This note offers some speculative ideas worth considering. One of the key features of all hierarchical civilizations is their rulers’ fear of death. This fear was famously narrated in the ancient myth of Gilgamesh – the Sumerian king who
The Capitalist Degree of Immortality
The systemic order of the capital economy is generated in and by continuous disorder: just as order cannot be equated with the optimum of regularity, disorder cannot be identified with the absence of order or with pure chaos. According to
Notes on Anwar Shaikh: Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
“The ‘dominion of capital’ is an accomplished teleological catastrophe, robot rebellion, or shoggathic insurgency, through which intensively escalating instrumentality has inverted natural process into a monstrous reign of the tool.” – Nick Land, Teleoplexy: Notes on Accleration “Socialism has
Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration
In sum, the last three centuries of an emergent and transforming global political economy must not be viewed teleologically – as in a linear or stadial developmentalism where some desired end is finally achieved – but as a historical exception
Energy, Capitalism and World Order
Nick Land writes, “Acceleration is techonomic time.” (Land 2014: 95) The etymological reference here aims at “tech” on the one hand (from Proto-Celtic tegos, from Proto-Indo-European tegos (“cover, roof”) = house) – and on the other hand at “nomic”, a
Nick Land`s Teleoplexia and Capital
This book explores the idea of human development as a tragedy from the perspective of capitalist power. Although the argument of this book draws heavily on critical political economy, the analysis considers interdisciplinary literature in an effort to explore how
The Tragedy of Human Development. A Genealogy of Capital as Power
Es ist schwierig, ein passenderes und erschreckenderes Sinnbild für die Verflechtung von kapitalistischer Ausbeutungswirtschaft und ökologischer Zerstörung zu finden als Palmöl. Seit fast 200 Jahren ist die Entwicklung dieses Plantagenprodukts von Entbehrungen und Gewalt geprägt, bei der im Namen von Profiten und billigen Preisen menschliche
Auf dem Opferaltar des extraktiven Kapitalismus: Anmerkungen zu Abolition und Übergang
This is my acceptance speech, given to the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) in response to its Marxian Economics Award, July 2018. It deals with the relation required between Chinese and Western Marxist economists, in the light of China’s
Of modernity’s illusions, none is so powerful—and none more fundamental to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s belief structures—than Man and Nature (Moore 2021e). I have written these words in the uppercase because they are not merely words; they are instruments of bourgeois
How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life
Big power rivalry is driven, in great part, by domestic economic and political factors. The US, Russia, Europe, and China all have internally driven tendencies towards external expansion. The same logic also illuminates another key feature of imperialism. That conflict
Ten Theses on the War in Ukraine and the Challenge for India
The roots of Cheap Nature and its double register – economic exploitationand geocultural domination – are found in modern imperialism. Imperialism is thebourgeoisie’s preferred mode of class formation because it more readily brings to bearthe military and juridical power of