EconoFiction

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight
from World History: Dialectical Universalism
& the Geographies of Class Power in the
Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

Von Jason Moore / 2022-04-16 / EconoFiction / Anthropocene, capital, Capitalocene, cheap nature, marxism

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 […]

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight
from World History: Dialectical Universalism
& the Geographies of Class Power in the
Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

A General Theory of Value and Money, part 1

Von Alan Freeman / 2022-04-07 / EconoFiction / Axiom, marx, marxism, money, value

This article sets out the foundations of an axiomatic theory of value and money. read here

A General Theory of Value and Money, part 1

Capitalism as a Mode of Power

Von Bichler/Nitzan / 2022-04-06 / EconoFiction / Capital as Power, capitalism, capitalization, creorder, derivatives, finance, sabotage stocks

Piotr Dutkiewicz: In a unique two-pronged dovetailing discussion, frequent collaborators and coauthors Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler discuss the nature of contemporary capitalism. Their central argument is that the dominant approaches to studying the market – liberalism and Marxism –

Capitalism as a Mode of Power

War, Capitalism, Ecology:
Why can’t Bruno Latour understand anything about them?

Von Maurizio Lazzarato / 2022-04-05 / EconoFiction / capital destruction, imperialism, marxism, production, war

Faced with the war that has broken out in Ukraine, the philosopher-ecologist is lost. Overwhelmed by the events, he “does not know how to cope with the two tragedies at once,” that is, Ukraine and global warming. The only claim he

War, Capitalism, Ecology:
Why can’t Bruno Latour understand anything about them?

FX & Imperialism

Von Tony Norfield / 2022-04-03 / EconoFiction / currency, Dollar, FX Markets, imperialism, marxism, world market

What affects the exchange rate of a country’s currency? The answer depends on where that country stands in the world economy. Not simply because an exchange rate is the value of one currency versus another, so that you must weigh

FX & Imperialism

Seeking the “Spirit of Capitalism”: The German Historical School and the Controversies about the Origins of Capitalism

Von John Milios / 2022-04-02 / EconoFiction / capitalism, marx, marxism, origin of capitalism

The question of the origins or genesis of capitalism preoccupied thewriters of the so-called German Historical School and led to fiercedisputes between them in the first three decades of thetwentieth century. Its “background” was Marx’s theory ofcapitalism and its genesis

Seeking the “Spirit of Capitalism”: The German Historical School and the Controversies about the Origins of Capitalism

Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-03-29 / EconoFiction, PhiloFiction / anti-ödipus, capital, deleuze/guattari, difference, flow, machine, marxism, schizo

The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the moment, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods) in which intrinsically contingent encounters (those of the flows of money-capital and

Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-03-25 / EconoFiction, Mashines / automation, biotechnology, capital, culture industry, husserl, individuation, machines, proletarisation, Simondon, technology

We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

Ukraine-Russia: like an earthquake

Von Michael Roberts / 2022-03-21 / EconoFiction / capital crisis, finance, imperialism, profitrate, recession, snctions, staglation war

‘Liberal’ economist Wolf, is deeply worried. “A new world is being born. The hope for peaceful relations is fading…. No one knows what will happen. But we do know this looks to be a disaster…….The combination of war, supply shocks and

Ukraine-Russia: like an earthquake

Financial Capital in the 21th Century / Introduction

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-03-17 / EconoFiction / Bank, capital, central bank, credit, derivatives, finance, marx, marxism, money, speculative capital, state

published by Palgrave The world economy is still in a phase of secular stagnation with persistently low growth rates of real gross domestic product.[1] The postwar litanies of boundless economic growth repeatedly preached by the representatives of capital and the

Financial Capital in the 21th Century / Introduction

The Political Economy of Tactics

Von Joshua Clover / 2022-03-17 / EconoFiction / blockade, capitalism, circulation, circulation struggle, covid 19, Strike

The recent “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers and their fellow travelers — the technical term is a “clustertruck” — no doubt drew on 2018’s gilets jaunes movement in shutting down the Ambassador Bridge and three other border spans, along with various other

The Political Economy of Tactics

The war machines of capital (taking into account the sanctions against Russia)

Von Achim Szepanski / 2022-03-09 / EconoFiction / central bank, imperialism, russia sanctions, warmachine of capital

oday, the political-economic executives of Western states are no longer just state apparatuses, but an ensemble of transnational institutions essentially dominated by finance capital. While ultra-liberal in their handling of financial flows, these “shadow” governments, such as the EU (but

The war machines of capital (taking into account the sanctions against Russia)

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