I won’t bring up Lacan on Monday. But the non-encounter between Stiegler and Lacan recently struck me as important and I wanted to try to unravel the mystery…
Stiegler wrote frequently about technology and technical objects. But how does he compare to one of the key object theories, psychoanalysis? Surprisingly ...
In order to determine the characteristics of non-philosophy, we frame it in opposition to an image of an established paradigm: Deconstruction (as suggested by Jean-Luc Nancy in La deconstruction du christianisme).1 We comment on this image, we add to it, we transform it. It is a simple image of Deconstruction, ...
Nietzsche invents a typology of boredom, in which boredom is initially a positive sign for the life of the scholar, while the ordinary thinker flees from boredom and seeks diversion with his participation in the entertainment machines, fashion, music and art, travel or sports, all the codings or symbolic-communicative conceptions ...
Die Abwehr von Verschwörungstheorien ist gegenwärtig nur die Abwehr, überhaupt strukturiert über ökonomische, militärische und politische Prozesse nachzudenken. Man verpaßt so die Geschichte und ihre Wendepunkte, denn die Geschichte ist selbstverständlich voller Verschwörungen, vollzieht sich nicht von selbst. Und man verabschiedet sich von jedem Gedanken, sich vielleicht selbst gegen diese ...
Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some “observations,” but a new style of theoretical hypotheses. They assume a “program” as much as they ...
Nietzsche erfindet eine Typologie der Langeweile, in der die Langeweile zunächst ein positives Zeichen für das Leben des Gelehrten ist, während der gewöhnliche Denker vor der Langweile flieht und Zerstreuung mit seiner Teilhabe in den Unterhaltungsmaschinerien sucht, Mode, Musik und Kunst, im Reisen oder im Sportbetrieb, all den Codierungen bzw. ...
John Milios/ Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
A crucial aspect of nearly all contemporary approaches to imperialism is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of the globalized financial sector of the economy produces a predatory version of capitalism, a capitalism that inherently tends towards crisis.
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capital, crises, derivatives, finance, financialisation, marxism, neoliberalism
taken from Ajour Magazin
Die Welt steuert auf eine wirtschaftliche Krise gigantischen Ausmasses zu, auch wenn das Thema wieder etwas aus der öffentlichen Diskussion verschwunden ist. Was passiert, wenn die staatlichen Stützungsmassnahmen auslaufen? Was bedeutet es eigentlich, wenn Teile der Wirtschaft für mehrere Monate eingefroren werden. Ein Überblick über 10 ...
Konjunkturzyklus, Krise, lieferketten, Marxismus, mehrwert, pandemie, tendenzieller Fall der Profitrate, Verschuldung
Elections
Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This implies a misjudgment, because only because the representatives exist does the represented group exist, which in turn creates its representatives ...
Under the aspect of the juxtaposition of commodity and money, Marx speaks in the first three chapters of Kapital Bd.1 of the commodity as a commodity form. If the development of value itself is addressed here at the same time, he speaks of the value form. In this context, he ...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The streets of several Colombian cities have erupted into conflict in the last two days in response to the brutal police murder of 43-year-old Javier Ordóñez, a lawyer and father of two in Bogotá, the nation’s capital. Ordóñez was peaceably drinking in the street in front of his friends’ apartment ...
taken from Ill Will
JULIEN COUPAT ET AL.
First published in Reporterre and Terrestres, September 4th, 2020
We have seen the most elementary liberty of bourgeois constitutions—the freedom to come and go— abolished with the snap of a finger.
We have seen a president claiming to regulate the “ ...
