The systemic order of the capital economy is generated in and by continuous disorder: just as order cannot be equated with the optimum of regularity, disorder cannot be identified with the absence of order or with pure chaos. According to …
Notes on Anwar Shaikh: Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
“The ‘dominion of capital’ is an accomplished teleological catastrophe, robot rebellion, or shoggathic insurgency, through which intensively escalating instrumentality has inverted natural process into a monstrous reign of the tool.” – Nick Land, Teleoplexy: Notes on Accleration “Socialism has …
Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration
In sum, the last three centuries of an emergent and transforming global political economy must not be viewed teleologically – as in a linear or stadial developmentalism where some desired end is finally achieved – but as a historical exception …
Nick Land writes, „Acceleration is techonomic time.“ (Land 2014: 95) The etymological reference here aims at „tech“ on the one hand (from Proto-Celtic tegos, from Proto-Indo-European tegos („cover, roof“) = house) – and on the other hand at „nomic“, a …
This book explores the idea of human development as a tragedy from the perspective of capitalist power. Although the argument of this book draws heavily on critical political economy, the analysis considers interdisciplinary literature in an effort to explore how …
The Tragedy of Human Development. A Genealogy of Capital as Power
Already for Marx, an important consequence concerning the extraction of surplus value in commodity production is that surplus value is transformed into what we call today an asset. The asset in this context is a means by which surplus value …
How Marxism today has to read Das Kapital and how it has to analyze the current capital relations.
Es ist schwierig, ein passenderes und erschreckenderes Sinnbild für die Verflechtung von kapitalistischer Ausbeutungswirtschaft und ökologischer Zerstörung zu finden als Palmöl. Seit fast 200 Jahren ist die Entwicklung dieses Plantagenprodukts von Entbehrungen und Gewalt geprägt, bei der im Namen von Profiten und billigen Preisen menschliche …
Auf dem Opferaltar des extraktiven Kapitalismus: Anmerkungen zu Abolition und Übergang
This is my acceptance speech, given to the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) in response to its Marxian Economics Award, July 2018. It deals with the relation required between Chinese and Western Marxist economists, in the light of China’s …
The roots of Cheap Nature and its double register – economic exploitationand geocultural domination – are found in modern imperialism. Imperialism is thebourgeoisie’s preferred mode of class formation because it more readily brings to bearthe military and juridical power of …
The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the moment, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods) in which intrinsically contingent encounters (those of the flows of money-capital and …
Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus
We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction …
published by Palgrave The world economy is still in a phase of secular stagnation with persistently low growth rates of real gross domestic product.[1] The postwar litanies of boundless economic growth repeatedly preached by the representatives of capital and the …