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, […]
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 Automatic Society: Technics, Memory, and Capitalism
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
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
Sidenotes to Hauntology // Randnotizen zur Hantologie
A speculative proposition: Deleuze and Guattari’s admonitions of caution in relation to absolute deterritorialization and destratification, as detailed in A Thousand Plateaus, is isomorphic to their historical analysis of the war machine’s capture and subordination of the State and the
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”.
Hyperwar (#2: Further Thoughts)
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
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
Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump
ABSTRACT Günther Anders, unlike his first wife Hannah Arendt, developed neither an elaborate theory of power nor of violence. Although both key issues of political and social theory are vividly present in his later works on the atomic bomb, on
Technischer Totalitarismus: Macht, Herrschaft und Gewalt bei Günther Anders
“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 is not a collection of
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
Beyond the Fragment: Postoperaismo, postcapitalism and Marx’s ‘Notes on Machines’, 45 years on
