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
Previously published in Migrant 2 (Wired Capital), 48–57. Printed in late May 2017. With links and pictures added in October 2017. taken from here A small remark in the third volume of Marx’s Capital (1894) edited by his friend Engels,
republished from INC. We get into an Uber car, and the driver passes by the Kremlin walls, guided by GPS. At the end of the ride, the bill turns out to be three times as expensive than usual. What is
Luxury & Paranoia. Access & Exclusion On Capital and Public
Im Zuge der industriellen Nutzung der Elektrizität, des Entstehens neuer Nachrichten- und Verkehrstechniken und -wege (inklusive ihrer teilweisen Verstaatlichung) beginnt gegen Ende des 19.Jahrhunderts der schleichende Prozess der Auflösung der klassischen Maschinerie des Industriezeitalters oder zumindest deren Integration in neue
Hans-Dieter Bahr und der Umgang mit Maschinen
Laruelle, François. “Le concept d’une ‘technologie première’” in Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l’individituation et la technique. Paris: Albin Michel, 1994. 206-219. The Concept of a “First Technology” François Laruelle A “Unified Theory” of Technics and Technology In order to
The Concept of a ‘First Technology’
24/7 metric and algorithmic governance are important features characteristic of automated and financialised capital that Jonathan Cray and Berns/ Rouvrey understand also as a new kind of technological performativity. In his book “Social Media Abyss” Geert Lovink – founding director
Economy and Power of the Net: Interview with Geert Lovink
Entgegen einer in der Posthumanismus-Debatte weit verbreiteten Position sieht Becker das wirkliche Problem der Automation nicht in der Machtübernahme der Maschinen, sondern in der intensivierten, digitalisierten Kontrolle der Arbeitsprozesse durch das Management. Schon der Kybernetiker Oswald Wiener spricht hinsichtlich der
Automation, Netzwerke und Plattformen (2)
Folgt man einer linear konzipierten Genealogie der Technikgeschichte, so beginnt die erste Epoche der Industrialisierung mit der Dampfmaschine, welche von der Epoche der Elektrifizierung und Taylorisierung und diese wiederum von der dritten Epoche der digitalen Automation und der Einführung von
Automation, Netzwerke und Plattformen (1)
As I was reading an article on the supposed hidden ideology underlying the rise of the Smart City on e-flux blog: The hidden ideology behind the “smart city” I kept thinking to myself: Look at New York City for a model
Smart Cities and Dark Neoliberalism
Marxism has, and had for a quite a long time, a problem with the question of work. This is not to say that Marxism can be confused with the insistence of its antagonist, capitalism, over the relations of labor and
Labor, Automation, and Refusal
The old idea that man invented tools is … a misleading half-truth; it would be more accurate to say that tools invented man. —Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future Long ago in that pre-history of the hominid ancestral narrative
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
