In his book Data Trash (1993), Arthur Kroker writes that in the field of digital acceleration, more information means less meaning, because meaning slows info circulation. In the sphere of the digital economy, the faster information circulates, the faster value […]
Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man
Yeah, so I don’t want to want to tell you what to do, but given where we’re going to be going, it might be good to briefly check in with the updated versions of this or this -but if not those, then
Economy of the War Machine Part IV. Chapter One (part a)
“After me, the deluge,” declared King Louis XV, at what was almost but not quite the high water mark of Absolutism. These days one might say, after capitalism, the derivative. The late work of Randy Martin takes up the startling
After Capitalism, the Derivative / For Randy Martin
I. Deleuze, Guattari, Accelerationism There’s been a lot of talk about Deleuze and Guattari around both academic and activist scenes for quite some time. Sometimes they are objects of unfounded derision (decried as “holy fools” by traditionalist socialists like Richard
Deleuze, Guattari and Market Anarchism
So verlaufen die zwei sich exklusiv ausschließenden Linien: Affirmation-Ignoranz-Wert-finanzielles Superkapital versus Negation-Intoleranz-Minus-Wert-Derivate-Kommunismus. Mathematisch wird der Derivate-Kommunismus folgendermaßen angeschrieben: Eine komplexe Zahl besitzt zwei Teile: einen realen Teil und einen imaginären Teil, so zum Beispiel 2 + 3i. Wen man in
Kürzeste Notiz zum Derivate-Kommunismus
Lapo Berti: … I have already said how I was struck by the lack of analysis of the Accelerationist hypothesis. I also want to stress that this is the least Marxian, if not the most anti-Marxian, conduct. According to Marx the
Accelerated Fantasies (Lapo Berti)
Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and John Milios … Globalization is something much more than a mutual institutional contract between sovereign nation-states that can be unilaterally challenged. Globalization is the irreversible new form of capitalism. The reproduction of social power relations is
THE EXIT CONNECTION: EUROPE’S NEW POLANYIAN MOMENT
Das ist wirklich sehr lustig, wenn nicht zum totlachen: Bundesbank-Vorstand: “Wir sind am Ende der Umsonstkultur.” Dabei betreiben die Geschäftsbanken schon lange eine Art Umsonst-Ökonomie, sie schöpfen Giralgeld qua Tastendruck quasi umsonst (für sich), was man neuerdings auch Keystroke-Kapitalismus nennt.
Kurze Notiz zum Derivatekommunismus
Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present provides a detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective. Key aspects of Marxist economic theory are illustrated in clear ways in
Marx on money: From an analysis of the value-form to a critical understanding of contemporary capitalism 150 years Karl Marx’s “Capital” in Athens January 2017 Video (with english subtitles) here
International Conference in January 2017 in Athens «Karl Marx’s Capital provides radical thinkers with the insights necessary to demystify the “truths” of the dominant bourgeois theoretical schemes, ideological certainties and policy implications and is thus of great theoretical and political importance. This
150 years Karl Marx’s Capital. Reflections for the 21st Century
Nicholas A. Knouf weist in seinem lesenswerten Buch How Noise Matters to Finance zuallererst auf die traditionellen Vorstellungen über den Aktienmarkt hin, man denke an die Steuerung des Marktes durch die berühmte unsichtbare Hand, an die Träume vom Gleichgewicht, Transparenz,
Bemerkungen zu “How Noise Matters to Finance”