As Danowski and Viveiros de Castro show in their argument, Deleuze’s concept of minor technologies, i.e., the different exercise of techniques (or “techopoetics”), paves a possible way toward constructing planetary cybernetics. read here Foto: Sylvia John
When Shoshana Zuboff published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism four years ago, I remember feeling skeptical and slightly guarded. You’re telling me the Harvard Business School hates Facebook now too? Okay, sure, welcome comrade…better late than never. Zuboff’s book is …
We saw it in the early Nineties, where I first started really picking up on this type of thing – that there was an overt ideological thesis, that was at that time called the “Californian Ideology”. —Nick Land “Every weirdo …
Semiconductor technology and semiconductor firms do not exist in a vacuum – they are enmeshed in complex ways with social forces outside the control of any dominant group. The interests of the semiconductor business cannot wholly escape the influence of …
Baudrillard bindet die Instabilität des Systems an die Implosion, womit er andeutet, dass das System in sich kollabiert (und nicht durch einen nuklearen Krieg etwa explodiert). Es befindet sich in einer Involution, bricht also an einem Punkt schlagartig in sich …
The behavioral and reception patterns of the masses today consist mostly of repetitive habits, whereby they, as users on the Internet, by no means remain passive, but rather constantly involve themselves in the pseudo-turbulent events via the social networks in …
Note: Earlier versions of this paper were presented as two keynote addresses in 2018. First, at the 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ – held in Oxford, England (September 5th to 7th). My opening keynote …
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as ‚after the orgy‘ . The orgy in question was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere. Political …
… If I had to name the present state of things, I would say that every explosive moment in the modern world is a moment of liberation in some area. The liberation of the political and the sexual, the liberation …
“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child …
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world …
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
… Wenn ich den gegenwärtigen Stand der Dinge benennen müsste, würde ich sagen, dass jedes explosive Moment in der modernen Welt ein Moment der Befreiung in irgendeinem Bereich ist. Die Befreiung des Politische und des Sexuellen, die Befreiung der produktiven …