… In the context of science fiction studies Guattari’s interest in Cyberpunkoffers an alternative to Frederic Jameson’s dismissal of the genre as failing to offer anything more than an uncritical celebration of late-capitalism’s technological ubiquity. In fact Guattari offers hisown […]
The difference between the two points of view will thus be all the more pronounced. The Marxist notion of the proletariat entails a triple consideration: its position within the structure of production, determined at minimum by its dispossession of the
Politicising Deleuzian Thought, or, Minority’s Position within Marxism
[ What follows is a draft of a longer essay yet to be written on the genealogy of destituent power covering Bataille, Blanchot, and Tronti, as well as Agamben and the Invisible Committee ]] During the 1970s, in Europe, a
The Reality Of Destitution is the Destitution of Reality: Notes for a Genealogy of Destituent Power
Translation by Alexander Galloway. This translation is an excerpt from Achille Mbembe’s 2016 book Politiques de l’inimitié (chapter four). Chapter two of the book was previously translated by Giovanni Menegalle in issue 200 of Radical Philosophy. The journal Theory, Culture & Society
Achille Mbembe on Afrofuturism and the “Genealogies of the Object”
Der bewaffnete Aufstand, schrieb Lenin, sei eine Kunst. Sie besteht darin, dem, was sich spontan, von selbst ereignet, in jenem Augenblick eine Wendung, eine Richtung zu geben, in dem das Kontinuum reißt. Diese Kunst besteht darin, der Virtualität des Ereignisses
Ordnung herrscht in Berlin? – Rosa Luxemburg heute
I want to begin by briefly considering Francois Laruelle’s Non-philosophy project alongside the philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an ‘aesthetics of the generic’ (or what for Laruelle would be a Non-aesthetics) might be
Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model
Channel that great saint of radical blackness, Toussaint Louverture, and return to the Haitian Constitution of 1804, which stated that all citizens will be called black regardless of color. Such blanket totality of black, such cataclysm of human color, renders
Laruelle – Against the Digital (pdf)
The secret does not need communication in order to be what it is, to be known and to be an “object” of a rigorous science. But communication needs the secret in order to be what it is. Between the secret
The Truth According to Hermes: Theorems on the Secret and Communication
– What is To Live and Think Like Pigs about? [Châtelet:] It’s a book about the fabrication of individuals who operate a soft censorship on themselves…In them, humanity is reduced to a bubble of rights, not going beyond strict biological functions
What is it to Live and Think like Gilles Châtelet?
Distinct thoughts are coalescing after last night’s now-embarrassing waste of energy on Twitter arguments. I always regret fanning the flames with so much oxygen the morning after and, obviously, it would only be worse to delete it later. A very
Notes on the Communist Horizon as an Immanent Outside
Isn’t the emphasis on the systemic character of capitalism what separates Marx’s analysis from moralizing socialism?) The idea that the misleadingly-named ‘ruling class’ do anything more than manage and adminster Capital is an idle fantasy. Capitalists can decide on which
The artist Steve Lambert had a great tweet once that was something like “every time you send me a .doc file, my opinion of you decreases.” I have similar feelings about Bruno Latour. Whenever people cite Latour, my opinion of