Für Laruelle muss hinsichtlich der Beurteilung der Technikwissenschaften eine erste Unterscheidung vorgenommen werden, nämlich die zwischen Technik und Technologie. Unter Technik versteht Laruelle im weitesten Sinne das von Simondon in seinen Schriften aufgeworfene technische Objekt, das der Wissenschaft zur Analyse dient, während der Begriff der Technologie der Ordnung des Diskurses ...
Gestell, Heidegger, non-laruelle, non-philosophy, Simondon, Technik, techno-fiction, Technologie, technology
The current Facebook debate is a chance to get your act together and get organized – just a little.
What does it mean to get dis-, re-, co-organized, to the worse, or the better? A further balkanisation, a migration to the cryptoanarchist waste of resources, blockchain-nations as a refresh of ...
blockchain, Connectivity, featured, internet, non-facebook, non-media, technology
Einer der Gründe, weshalb die in den sechziger Jahren begonnene Renaissance des Materialismus inzwischen, wenn die Zeichen nicht trügen, ihren Zenit überschritten hat, dürfte in der auffälligen Fraglosigkeit zu suchen sein, mit der diese Theorie beinahe allen Problemen der Technologie, der Naturbeherrschung und -Zerstörung begegnet. Nicht, daß diese Probleme kein ...
Experiment, marxism, Maschinerie, Naturwissenschaft, reelle Subsumtion, Sohn-Rethel, technology, wertform
In the past few years both the political Left and Right of the current global machine, the “Establishment” now dictates who will be included or excluded from their dominion. Whatever the hell that is? Ah, yes, it always comes down to this bugaboo… the “System” – a sort of Death ...
acceleration, AI, automation, capitalism, Stiegler, technology
In my graduate seminar we’ve recently been thinking a bit about machines. Given that our focus has been on the 19th Century, attention has been directed toward ergodic machines (from the root ergon meaning work). Ergodic machines are machines that run on heat and energy. Such machines are essentially mechanical
...analog, anti-computer, digital, information machine, machinery, marxism, technology, tool
Documentation, Mashines, NonPolitics, PhiloFiction
Transkription eines Vortrags der im Oktober 2015 bei der ‘retrospektive’ [event] des “institut de destabilisation” im MultiVersum (Offenbach) gehalten wurde. Sowohl Skript als auch die Aufnahme waren zwischenzeitlich verloren und sind nun wieder aufgetaucht:
„Womöglich gilt es darzulegen, dass die Politik, die gegenwärtig das affektive Interesse an sich bindet, als ...
Bataille, blödmaschinen, derrida, determination-in-der-letzten-instanz, dividuum, kulturindustrie, non-future, spectacle, technology, time
In response to the scenario outlined by General John Allen, in which the United State practices restraint by keeping (minimal) human decision-making in the OODA ‘loop’ and China does not, DMF asks an important question: “why wouldn’t China feel constrained”. Why indeed? One response would be that China, as a ...
by Kilian Jörg & Jorinde Schulz (translation: Kilian Jörg)
“I want to be a machine. Arms to grab legs to walk no pain no thought.
I want to be a machine. Arms to grab legs to walk no pain no thought.
I want to be a machine. Arms to grab ...
Mashines, Necropolitics, NonPolitics
In the years from 1986 until 1999, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Jörg Haider with the help of anti-immigration slogans, politics as entertainment, a juvenile and dynamic habitus, as well as ridicule of opponents led his party from a voting share of 9.7% in 1986 to a share ...
Authoritarian Capitalism, capitalism, frankfurt school, marxism, media theory, Trump, twitter
EconoFiction, Mashines, NonPolitics
“Antisocial Media” is a remix/cut-up/utopian-plagiarism of Guy Debord’s 1967 “The Society of the Spectacle” that reflects on the contemporary role of the network and (anti)social media in politics, the economy, and everyday life.
antisocial media, capital, featured, guy debord, media, networks, resistance
ABSTRACT:
2017 marks 45 years since the first English publication of Marx’s ‘Notes on machines’ in Economy & Society. This paper critiques how Marx’s ‘Fragment’ has subsequently been repurposed in postoperaist thought, and how this wields influence on contemporary left thinking via the work of Paul Mason. Changes in labour ...
capital, capitalism, labour, marx, marxism, postcapitalism, postoperaism, value
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Fotot: Bernhard Weber ...
acceleration, Burroughs, deleuze/guattari, Hyperstition, Nick Land, Noise
