More specifically, however, the primary confusion here is that I included denationalized refugees in the category of the proletariat when in fact many, but not all, of these refugees did not work. While many worked illegally, there were and are today many refugees who would like to work but cannot ...
afro turbulence, blackness, kinetic struchture, marxism, Migrant, Refugees, resistance, surplus population
Achille Mbembe, blackness, colonialism, Fanon, featured, Lumpenproletariat, post-colonialism, racism
GenericScience, NonMusic, PhiloFiction
∞ Alienocene, first announcement:
Theoretical, artistic, political, and scientific, Alienocene is an electronic journal that gathers texts, sounds, and images seeking to reshape the relation between the human and the inhuman, the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial, the near and the distant, what is familiar to us
...Afrofuturism, Alienocene, blackness, dark cosmos, Dark Deleuze, outer space
Of course, mystery actually requires a measure of the concrete if it is to be perceived at all; otherwise it is only a void, the void. The thinnest mixture of this mortar, I suppose, is contained in that most basic source of mystery—darkness.
-Thomas Ligotti
Dark Phenonmenology and the Daemonic ...abstract horror, blackness, daemonic, dark phenomenology, Ligotti
Thomas Dekeyser: I read your book Dark Deleuze as a two-fold intervention: into Deleuzian scholarship and into radical political thought. I would like to first hone in on the former. You suggest the majority of Deleuzian scholarship has been overwhelmed by a ”canon of joy” that “celebrates Deleuze as ...
Afropessimism, blackness, capitalism, cruelty, Dark Deleuze, Deleuze, deleuze/guattari, line of flight, marxism, Negativity, outside, rhizom
Aesthetics is a recurring theme in Laruelle’s work. He has written two short books on photography and has several essays on art and related topics, including texts on color, light, seeing, drawing, dance, music, and technology. But what is technology, and what is technology’s relation to art?
Laruelle’s position on
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Siks, Frankfurt: Donnerstag 6.4., ab 19:00 Uhr
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The Ultrablack of Music
In einem parcours de force durchschreitet Achim Szepanski in dem kurzen Text “Ultrablackness in der Musik. Eine Non-Remixologie” Aspekte der elektronischen Musik bei Deleuze/Guattari und François Laruelle, fragt nach den Verbindungen und Verschiebungen zwischen Noise und Rhythmus ...
blackness, Kodwo Eshun, rhythm, rhythmächte, ultrablack of music
Lexicon, NonMusic, NonPolitics
“Sensory language leaves us with no habit for lying. We are hostile aliens, immune from dying.” – The Spaceape
If accelerationism has a key idea, it is that it is either impossible or undesirable to resist or negate the development of the commodity economy coupled with technology. Rather, it has ...
acceleration, Afrofuturism, blackness, Kodwo Eshun, non-music
In der Tat hat Badious neues Buch Black. The Brilliance of a non-color, das 21 Aphorismen zum „Thema“ Schwarz enthält, etwas von der persönlichen Philosophie eines Maurice Blanchot. Während aber Blanchot vom schwarzen Licht spricht, das – paradox genug – gleich einer Nacht ist, die von unten kommt, oder ...
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Black Dada antwortet mit Grausamkeit. Entwickelt einen Geschmack für die Destruktion. Geschmack an der Destruktion einer Welt, die im Nanosekundenbereich heißgelaufen ist. Einer Welt, die mal wieder ihre Kriege hat. Manche Städte werden von Kampfflugzeugen bombardiert, andere von Kunstmessen angegriffen. Der alternative Künstler schwärmt von rhizomatischen Gärten, der ...
black dada, blackness, non-art, non-future, non-laruelle, non-philosophy, Wilhelm Reich
Laruelle spricht häufig vom schwarzen Universum und davon, dass die Philosophie nicht dunkel genug sei. Aber was ist schwarz? Ist schwarz eine Farbe und wenn ja, können wir sie sehen?
Reza Negarestani hat in seinem Buch Cyclonopedia einen Mix aus Theorie und Fiction geliefert, wobei er die Erde als eine ...
Black Universe, blackness, Dark Deleuze, Deleuze, deleuze/guattari, non-laruelle
On the occasion of Achille Mbembe’s new preface to the African reprint of On the Postcolony by Wits University Press.
Mbembe: Critique is witnessing as well as endless vigilance, interrogation and anticipation. A proper critique requires us first to dwell in the chaos of the night in order precisely to ...
