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Subjectivity and Machines: From Adorno to Deleuze/Guattari

1) Subjectivity: Adorno and Günther Anders The dividuum is the mockery of the anti-narcissist. It is the spawn of the hyper-dialectic. One divides into two. If the narcissist can only lose himself twice in the mirror image, in that the […]

Subjectivity and Machines: From Adorno to Deleuze/Guattari

Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration

“The ‘dominion of capital’ is an accomplished teleological catastrophe, robot rebellion, or shoggathic insurgency, through which intensively escalating instrumentality has inverted natural process into a monstrous reign of the tool.”       – Nick Land, Teleoplexy: Notes on Accleration “Socialism has

Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration

The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere

Everything becomes imperceptible, everything is becoming-imperceptible on the plane of consistency, which is nevertheless precisely where the imperceptible is seen and heard. It is the Planomenon, or the Rhizosphere, the Criterium (and still other names, as the number of dimensions

The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere

Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies

As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with

Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction

Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”

Human Material in the Communication of Capital

The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish and how Kittler posits human beings as

Human Material in the Communication of Capital

Bemerkungen zu Lazzaratos “Capital hates Everyone” (3)

Subjektivität” ist keine exklusive Eigenschaft des Menschen, aber sie ist im Menschen und in der Maschine auf unterschiedliche Weise verteilt. “Es gibt etwas Lebendiges im technischen Ensemble”, sagt Simondon, und Guattari spricht von einer “Proto-Subjektivität” der Maschine, einer singulären Macht

Bemerkungen zu Lazzaratos “Capital hates Everyone” (3)

Bemerkungen zu Lazzaratos “Capital hates Everyone” (2)

Die Kontrolle der Ströme und die Hierarchisierung der Bevölkerungen wird laut Lazzarato  weder durch die von Foucault beschriebene Biomacht noch durch die Thanatopolitik, sondern durch den Krieg gegen die Bevölkerungen geführt. Dieser Ausdruck scheint passender zu sein, weil er eine

Bemerkungen zu Lazzaratos “Capital hates Everyone” (2)

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