…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures.
—Edmund Berger
Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his homework in uncovering the historical traces of the Marxist ...
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
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
Rethinking agency in an AI-driven world – as the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference is trying to do – the critic Krystian Woznicki interviews social thinker Max Haiven about seminal notions of agency under AI-driven financialization.
Krystian Woznicki: As you repeatedly point out in your book “Art after Money, Money after ...
AI, algorithm, art, capital, Capitalocene, commons, derivate, finance, marxism, non-economy, technology
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music
When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is distinct from metrics, we enter the field of non-frequency politics, ...
art, derivative, electronics, featured, finance, force inc, mille plateaux, non-music, technology
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music
When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is distinct from metrics, we enter the field of non-frequency politics, ...
art, derivative, electronics, finance, force inc, mille plateaux, non-music, technology
