30 years ago, there were 15 border walls around the world; now there are 70 walls and over 1 billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next 40 years due to global warming. Our […]
The Climate Industrial Complex
One should insist that paranoia is the mass psychological fuel of neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements. Today they have chosen the vulnerable foreigners as their suitable enemy object. And to anticipate it right away, the paranoia of right-wing populists and
Paranoia Machines of the State
Andreas Malm übersetzt die Marx`sche These von der steigenden organischen Zusammensetzung des Kapitals (die Rate zwischen toter und lebendiger Arbeit) in eine ansteigende fossile Zusammensetzung des Kapitals. Über eine längere Zeitperiode hinweg lässt sich die Tendenz das Kapitals, den Anteil
When talking about the environment and climate change, the conversation will inevitably turn to carbon. Often tossed into that discussion are things like emissions or your carbon footprint. But what do these terms really mean? Not just for us, but
Something in the Air and On the Road: Carbon Emission and Our Nation’s Largest Source of CO2
Um 1620 beobachtet der Mediziner, Theologe und Naturforscher Johan Baptist van Helmont in Vilvoorde/ Brüssel luftartige Substanzen. Er nennt Gaz, was vor seinen Augen aus dem Chaos in seinem Labor entsteht. Nun war Helmont das Gegenteil eines unordentlichen Menschen. In
Das Autorenteam Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff hat mit Inhuman Power ein verdienstvolles Buch zur AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) aus marxistischer Sicht vorgelegt. AI definieren die Autoren als die Fähigkeit in einem bestimmten Zeitraum mittels Software angemessene Verallgemeinerungen auf Grundlage von limitierten
Marxismus und Künstliche Intelligenz
ABSTRACT Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an astonishing historical capacity to produce, locate, and occupy cheap natures external to the system. In
Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology
Introduction Of all the domains of Marxian political economy, nature is by far the most vexing. Is nature an economic input as in the notion of natural resources; is it the object of labour in the process of production; or
VALUE, NATURE, AND THE VORTEX OF ACCUMULATION
Euclid is remembered as a geometer, when he is remembered at all. But Euclid’s Elements was an omnibus compendium of all mathematical knowledge known to him at the time, beginning with the first mathematics, geometry, then addressing ratio and proportion–that
General Formula for the Digital and the Analog
»Man erzittert vor der Hypothese, daß, begünstigt durch eine jener Metamorphosen, von denen Marx so oft gesprochen hat […], ein neuer ›Marxismus‹ nicht mehr die Gestalt haben könnte, unter der man ihn zu identifizieren und in die Flucht zu schlagen
Marxismus – Material und Problem
Movement is a common feature of all posthuman systems. In contrast toessences, forms and structures, which are defined by stasis, immutability,fixity and anthropocentrism, kinetic systems are defined by their flux,mobility and circulation. Kinetic systems are not just ‘open’ or ‘closed’
Kinopolitics: Borders in Motion
Border circuit: (1) Migrants cross the border. But the border is a junction, a vehicle of harnessed flows. The border acts as a sieve or filter since it allows capital and the global elite to move freely, but, like a