The unlikely parable that Xenophon relates between Socrates and their mutual friend Aristippus of Cyrene serves as a lead in to the subject of this post. Socrates had observed his friend Aristippus for some time and felt that the young man needed a little guidance. He remonstrated Aristippus for his ...
baudrillard, deleuze/guattari, desire, Retention, simulation, Stiegler, Stupidity, technology
Im Rahmen der 23. Linken Literaturmesse in Nürnberg stellte Achim Szepanski zusammen mit Karl-Heinz Dellwo das von ihnen gemeinsam mit J. Paul Weiler herausgegebene Buch “Riot – Was war da los in Hamburg? Theorie und Praxis der kollektiven Aktion” [1] vor. Im Anschluß daran beantwortete er dem Schattenblick einige vertiefende
...Biopolitik postmoderner Körper, capital, derivate, finance, finanzielles Kapital, G 20, Imperialismus, Riot
The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action.
‘The economics Nobel went to a guy who enabled climate change denial and delay’:
It has ...
Francois Matheron has suggested that the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of providing a comprehensive assessment to the work of Louis Althusser results from the ‘generalized uncertainty’ of an oeuvre constructed in the “dimension of catastrophe” and designed by its author to be “forever destroying itself”. This paper allows itself ...
althusser, art, class struggle in theory, control, metis, non-philosophy
Deleuze/Guattari fordern uns dazu auf, mindestens drei Denk-Modelle auf die theoretische Analyse der Ökonomie anzuwenden, indem sie selbst das Bild der Strömung, das ihrerAnsicht zufolge jedes Modell artikuliert, nachzeichnen. Erst das dritte, das molekular-performative Modell setzt die Kraft-des-Denkens richtig in Szene. (Laruelle setzt den Begriff Kraft-des-Denkens in Kontrast zum Gedanken. ...
capital, Deleuze, deleuze/guattari, derivate, finance, marxism, quanten-finance
Von dem Moment an als der 14-jährige Alexis Grigoropoulos am 6. Dezember 2008 von einem Bullen niedergeschossen wurde, änderte sich die Gestalt, das Wesen, ja die Erscheinungsform der Gesellschaft in der griechischen Hauptstadt und in vielen anderen Städten sowohl auf dem Festland als auch auf vielen Inseln. Die Dynamik der ...
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 made intelligible for artistic practice, and also because it will ...
althusser, art, non-art, non-laruelle, non-philosophy, science
For this video Alberto told me he had something wave-ish in mind. I also had quite similar impressions. The track Utopia Robotz feels blury and like a big field of nearly invisible turbulence. For me it describes more an environment than telling you a literal story, it is more like ...
…new technologies may suggest, create, even impose new ends, never before conceived, simply by offering their feasibility.
—Hans Jonas, Toward a Philosophy of Technology
For years now philosophers, scientists, artists, pundits, academics, social-critics, etc. have spoken of the death of humanism and the rise of post-humanism. Hans Jonas in a ...
Big Data, data, Google, information, surveillance capitalism
It seems fitting, then, that with the “speed” and proliferation of music, artists, and new labels, as well as a “do-it-yourself” mode of production enabled by the new technologies, and the lack of an adequate rhetoric to explain, describe, and theorize the new developments in the music, that Mille Plateaux ...
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 color invalid and denies the endless dynamics of black-as-white or ...
blackness, digital, immanence, non-laruelle, non-philosophy, the real, unilaterality
Shosana Zuboff bezeichnet in ihrem Buch Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Facebook & Co als die Herren der radikalen Indifferenz. Es entsteht eine neue Akkumulationslogik, in der das Überwachungskapital menschliches Verhalten und dessen scheinbar nutzlosen Überschüsse extrahiert, das heißt Daten, die mit anderen Daten kombiniert werden, aufsaugt, um intelligente Maschinen zu ...
Bedeutung, differenz, Facebook, Indifferenz, Überwachungskapital, Verhalten, Verhaltensüberschuss
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 and communication there only exist determinative relationships that are unilateral, ...
– 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 of the yum-yum-fart type. . .as well as the ...
alterity, Badiou, determination, exteriority, live like a pig, neoliberalism, virtuality
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of ...
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 important side note from the Caves: “weaponise inattention”.
There was ...
The rhetoric of migrant “invasions” is back again. Donald Trump has recently described the caravan of Central American refugees marching to the US as “an onslaught,” “an assault on our country,” and an “invasion,” repeating the words of Robert Bowers, who shot can killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh Synagogue ...
Dirk Baecker schreibt in einem aktuellen Beitrag: »Auch das Kapital darf nicht im Singular, sondern muss im Plural gedacht werden.« Wenn er dann sofort zur Konkurrenz springt, verfolgt er zwar eine Spur, ohne Zusammenhänge darstellen und explizieren zu können. Die Wunderformel heißt nämlich: Singular=Plural. Wir werden zeigen, dass man über ...
Aktualisierung-Virtualisierung, capital, capitalism, finance, marx, marxism, money, Quasi-Transzendentalität
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capital, finance, Imperialismus, Kriegsmaschinen, marxism, Staatsfaschisierung, Staatstheorie
Originally published by Théorie Communiste as ‘Classe / segmentation / racisation. Notes’. Translated from the French by LNFC.
There has always been segmentation within labor power. We must take it, then, as an objective determination of labor power under capital that naturally leads to a division of labor. Here we ...
class, class struggle, Communisation, racialization, segmentation
Last Friday I took part in a panel to launch a new book, World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx’s Law of Profitability, published by Haymarket Books, edited by Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi. The presentation was at this year’s Historical Materialism conference in London.
My presentation was ...
capital, derivate, fall of profitrate, finance, imperialism, marxism, Profit
