This paper aims to articulate an “encounter” between operaismo (Wright, 2017 – in English literally “workerism”, but often referred to as “Autonomist Marxism”, from now on AM, highlighting a horizon of worker autonomy from capital) and World-Ecology (Moore, 2015a – […]
Autonomist Marxism and World-Ecology: For a Political Theory of the Ecological Crisis
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation
Reading Karen Barad’s Interview in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
How does capitalism work through the web of life? How can we begin to understand capitalism not simply as an economic system of markets and production and a social system of class and culture, but as a way of organising
This has led to an inverted understanding of the earth and our relationship to it. We have posited ourselves and the earth as profound reversals of the general movement of the universe, which flows, cycles, and dissipates entropically. 1 The
The quilting point was introduced in Jacques Lacan’s 1956 seminar on psychoses. He defined the quilting point as a kind of “anchor” or “button” that stitches together the flux of signification. We can understand this in both a general and specific
Digital Hall of Fame: The Quilting Point
We are without illusion: the programme of La Décision Philosophique risks arousing the anger of the philosophers without earning us the lack of unreserved support of the scientists. The next letter will particular address itself to the latter; scientists address themselves in
Why We Must Speak of “Science”
translated by Jeremy R. Smith “The Tsunami and the Myth of the Water-Fish: A Short Essay on Fantastic Zoology, to Add to Borges and Schrödinger” François Laruelle In Philo-Fictions 2 (2009), p.7-15.[1] To Muriel Mambrini-Doudet Abstract: As an exercise in philo-fiction, how
The Tsunami and the Myth of the Water-Fish
taken from tranversal Elie Ayache, a trader and a ‘philosopher of the market’, explains that the prices of the derivatives[1] that circulate on the financial market are ‘real’, in the sense that they have the same ‘reality’ of those future
Rhythmus im ökonomischen Raum / Rhythm in Economic Space
This Prolegomenon to a Treatise will examine the possibility for a foundational system which conceptually unifies ordinary mathematics (category theory, topos theory, or homotopy type theory are the options). For that matter, this treatise will discuss structure in the sense
Over the summer I read a lot of Lacan and revisited some influential Lacanian texts including Jacques-Alain Miller’s 1966 essay on “Suture” published in the first volume of Cahiers pour l’Analyse. It’s an important essay, garnering key responses from Alain Badiou (and,
Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely movement-oriented or “kinetic” theory of the earth. This methodology has two
During the 2020-2021 academic year I’m lucky enough to be co-leader (with prof. Emily Apter) of a research lab at NYU focused on questions of translation. Translation is a notoriously difficult topic, not only within theoretical discussions, but also as
Transcoding, Transduction, Sampling, and Interpolation — The Four Interfaces