Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc’s Politique et État chez Deleuze et Guattari: Essai sur le matérialism historico-machinic has been translated into English as State and Politics: Deleuze and Guattari on Marx. In the past twenty years since I first discovered Deleuze and Guattari […]
Reading Deleuze and Guattari as Marxist/Spinozists: On Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc’s State and Politics
When my daughter was little, we played a game on the way to her preschool called Count the Dog Poo. It was a game about counting, as you would play with any child, but also a game for a little
The decisive violence imposed on life by the capitalist mode of production derives from its quest for radical simplification. The dream, the fantasy, the nightmare of capital is its practical desire — practical, yet impossible — for world of interchangeable
Wasting Away: Value, Waste, and Appropriation in the Capitalist World-Ecology
1. Old versus Young Marx I am a recovering Althusserian. For decades now I have been Althusser-free, for the most part, but we all have our lapses. The first step to becoming a recovering Althusserian is to recognize that you
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Modernity’s law of value is an exceedingly peculiar way of organizing life in a civilization. Born in the midst of the rise of capitalism after 1450, the law of value enabled an unprecedented historical transition: from land productivity to labor
The Origins of Cheap Nature: From Use-Value to Abstract Social Nature
Jannis Milios, Georg Economakis Es ist Nicos Poulantzas zuzustimmen, wenn er sagt: „Die genaue Bestimmung der Klasse des Kleinbürgertums ist in der Tat das Kernstück jeder marxistischen Klassentheorie.“ (Poulantzas 1973b: 252) Die meisten Schwierigkeiten der Klassenanalyse in den heutigen
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As various forms of computationalism continue to influence contemporary writing in theory and philosophy, it seems appropriate to reexamine some of the fundamental assumptions and principles of computation, so that we may identify them more readily. In an earlier, characteristically
Spyros Lapatsioras, Jannis Milios Zum Geldbegriff von den Grundrissen zum Kapital – Verschiebungen Im Folgenden legen wir dar, dass es eine signifikante Verschiebung gibt in der Art und Weise, wie der Begriff „Geld“ in zwei wichtigen Marx’schen Texten ausgelegt wird,
Zum Geldbegriff von den Grundrissen zum Kapital – Verschiebungen
Shintaro Miyazaki geht in seinem Buch “Algorhythmisiert. Eine Medienarchäologie digitaler Signale und (un)erhörter Zeiteffekte” von Platons Definition des Rhythmus als einer zeitlich strukturierten Ordnung von Bewegung aus, wobei Rhythmus immer schon in Relation zu Produktion und Perzeption steht. In diesem
Henri Lefebvre und Rhythmoanalysis
We are all cyborgs now. To the point where this reality no longer appears at all striking. As so perfectly pictured in Alex Rivera’s film Sleepdealer (2008), we are biological machines strapped to information machines which together function as war
At a crucial turn in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, we’re introduced the Panther Moderns – a guerrilla subculture in a world where subcultures flicker by like disconnected frames of some montage film. The Panther Moderns specialize in hallucinatory simulations – in
Fifty years before photography was officially unleashed unto the world, in answering the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’ (1784) Immanuel Kant wrote: ‘Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity’. Kant was writing this at a time when thousand years of
What is 21st Century Photography?