In a lecture published in the Cardozo Law Review in 2008, Alain Badiou articulates his understanding of Being, Event, and Simulacrum in relationship to Logic and Law. With an incredible power of precision, Badiou reminds his audience of Aristotle’s three main […]
Badiou’s Jurisprudence: The Event of Law and The Law of The Event
A brief history of SYRIZA SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) was formed in 2004 as a Coalition of the left party “Synaspismos” (SYN) and political groups of the so-called “renewing Left” and “revolutionary extra-parliamentary Left” All political groups co-existed
SYRIZA as a Symptom of the Euro-Crisis. De te fabula narratur
I). Die Politik, die uns anleitet, ist nicht ethisch, sondern grausam. Wir setzen der Politik der Ethik die Politik der Grausamkeit entgegen. Die Ethik geht ganz auf die Griechen zurück, deren Ethik das Studium des »guten Lebens« beinhaltete. Unsere Interessen
The usual accusation made against Israel or Zionism is that this state was founded where other people were already living. But the founding acts of all hitherto existing polities were never acts of justice, but rather always acts of violence.
On The Radical Left and National Liberation
The interview was conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine following a lecture by Nick Dyer-Witheford at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTUU KPI). We would like to thank those who brought this lecture and text to life, namely
“Fuck off, Google!” Interview with Nick Dyer-Witheford
Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). His publications can be
“On Destroying What Destroys You”
Gavin Mueller: Your 1999 book Cyber-Marx is an excellent summary of autonomist Marxism and post-operaismo as well as an argument for its relevance for struggles against a capitalism increasingly suffused with information and communication technology. With Cyber-Proletariat, you are less
Cyber-Proletariat: Interview with Nick Dyer-Witheford
Ein vom Arbeitsmarkt erwünschter Migrant hieß früher Gastarbeiter. Ein Euphemismus, der den Widerspruch zwischen Gastfreundschaft und Arbeitsverhältnis in ein Wort packt. Solange man zur internationalen Kreativindustrie zählt, und sei es auch nur zur Armee der “Freien” ist Mobilität ein Muss,
Der 9 Bücher-Plan der Foraminiferderalogie: 1. Die hegemoniale Weltäquivalenzkette (Die Mehrwertverwertung) 2. Die subalterne Weltäquivalenzkette. (Die Minderwertverunwertung) 3. Die Immer-wieder-schon-neue-Internationale, die Inter-Trans-Queer-Sub-Ab-Objektivität und der disversale Weltmarkt der kommenden Anökonomie 4. Foraminiferderalogie. Die politische Ökonomologie der Foraminifederationen 5. Das unendliche Nichtrecht
Das FORS-Programm und seine Axiome der Unvollständigkeit
The cultural philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s birthday is on July 27th and I thought it might be worthwhile to review his very first text, one that is relatively unknown to the general public. Many in the art world are familiar at
On Jean Baudrillard’s Pataphysics
Vertreter der linken Syriza Plattform wie Kouvelakis machen sich nun über Varoufakis lustig, weil er in den Verhandlungen in Brüssel die alberne Idee verfolgt hätte, gegenüber der stahlharten Machtpolitik mit ökonomischer Theorie sprich Argumenten glänzen zu wollen. Es mag ja
Der philosophische Politizismus ist die Kinderkrankheit des Kommunismus
They lean towards one another, smile, shake hands, empty their satchels, shuffle papers. Its business as usual for these faces fronting the neo-liberal monolith – Schaüble, Shultz, Juncker, Draghi, Merkel, Cameron, Hollande – as sure of themselves as can be;