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There’s some fascinating comments by Louis Armand in an essay featured in Alienist #4 that deal with Primož Krašovec’s ‘Alien Capital’: This Alien metaphor can be taken a step further, in that it exceeds the notion of simply an economic
Wie gut geölte Leierkästen predigen Politiker, dass Gewalt kein Mittel der politischen Auseinandersetzung sein dürfe. Dabei beruht ihre Position in letzter Instanz in nichts anderem als Gewalt, die der Staat sich in langwierigen historischen Prozessen angeeignet hat, vielmehr mehr noch,
Notiz zum staatlichen Gewaltmonopol
Der kapitalistischen Kulturindustrie sei die Fälschung per se eigen, so Guy Debord, der zudem schrieb, dass in der wirklich verkehrten Welt das Wahre ein Moment des Falschen sei. Selbst Kunstwerke seien nichts weiter als Symbole der falschen Kultur. Oft versuchte
…quelque chose de follement astucieux, hein? J. Lacan, Mailand 12.5.1972 Es gibt zum Kapitalistischen Diskurs von Lacan mehr Literatur als man denkt. Allerdings, verglichen mit dem französisch-, vor allem aber englischsprachigen gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum nur wenige Titel.
Egocracy (Howard Rouse / Sonia Arribas) oder Kapitalmacht? Zu Lacans Kapitalistischem Diskurs
Francois Matheron has suggested that the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of providing a comprehensive assessment to the work of Louis Althusser results from the ‘generalized uncertainty’ of an oeuvre constructed in the “dimension of catastrophe” and designed by its
The Hooks Beneath the Bait / Entrapment and Escape in Althusser and Art
…new technologies may suggest, create, even impose new ends, never before conceived, simply by offering their feasibility. —Hans Jonas, Toward a Philosophy of Technology For years now philosophers, scientists, artists, pundits, academics, social-critics, etc. have spoken of the death of
Beyond Humanity: The Datacentric Worldview
Howard Rouse/Sonia Arribas: Egocracy. Marx, Freud and Lacan 2011 II.2.2. Egokratie und der ‚Diskurs des Kapitalismus‘, oder Das Neu-Durchdenken des Symbolischen, des Imaginären und des Realen in Seminar XVII (210-271) In den beiden vorherigen Kapiteln haben wir gesehen, wie …
Howard Rouse/Sonia Arribas: Egocracy. Marx, Freud and Lacan (4)
Isn’t the emphasis on the systemic character of capitalism what separates Marx’s analysis from moralizing socialism?) The idea that the misleadingly-named ‘ruling class’ do anything more than manage and adminster Capital is an idle fantasy. Capitalists can decide on which
Rethinking agency in an AI-driven world – as the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference is trying to do – the critic Krystian Woznicki interviews social thinker Max Haiven about seminal notions of agency under AI-driven financialization. Krystian Woznicki: As you repeatedly point
The Politics of AI-driven Financialization (Interview with Max Haiven)
The answer to the central question at the heart of modern science, ‘Is nature continuous or discrete?’ is as radical as it is simple. Space-time is not continuous because it is made of quantum granules, but quantum granules are not
Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born
We need the deniers to get out of the way. They are risking everyone’s future…. The Koch Brothers are criminals…. They should be charged with criminal activity because they’re putting the profits of their business ahead of the livelihoods of
Climate Apocalypse: The Denial of the Future