capital

There is No Such Thing as a Technological Accident: Cheap Natures, Climate Crisis & Technological Impasse

What if Virilio’s compelling rendering of integral accidents – as “chain reactions” of “incidents and disasters” – is turned inside out, into the heart of capitalism’s much-vaunted capacity for so-called innovation? Integral accidents issue from capitalism’s specific integration of power, …

There is No Such Thing as a Technological Accident: Cheap Natures, Climate Crisis & Technological Impasse

When Human Rights Circulate Like Oil and Capital – Deleuze and Baudrillard on the Farce of Human Rights.

In ABC, Deleuze says: “Listen, this respect for the ‘rights of man’ – it really makes me want to make almost abhorrent statements. It belongs so much to the weak thinking of the empty intellectual period we were talking about …

When Human Rights Circulate Like Oil and Capital – Deleuze and Baudrillard on the Farce of Human Rights.

Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

In the hustle and bustle of climate scholarship it’s easy to lose sight of something fundamental about the climate crisis: it’s the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities. The climate crisis is a …

Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

Robert Meister’s book „Justice is an Option“ (5) – A Revaluation of the Financial Markets

In the next section, Meister tries to develop tools by which justice-seeking movements could extract amounts of money to, in turn, generate liquidity for themselves, something that governments, hardly interested in justice, are unlikely to want to do. Thus, movements …

Robert Meister’s book „Justice is an Option“ (5) – A Revaluation of the Financial Markets

Robert Meister’s book „Justice is an Option“ (3) – A Revaluation of the Financial Markets

In financial markets, asset pricing is a specific historical mode of pricing out options to then convert those options into cash. Pricing out an option in the form of a guarantee in order to sell it at its current price …

Robert Meister’s book „Justice is an Option“ (3) – A Revaluation of the Financial Markets

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