translated by deep l. you can order the book (in german) Joshua Clover Riot.Strike.Riot here The protests against the G-20 summit in Hamburg in the summer of 2017 culminated in a micro-riot in the Schanzenviertel.1 For the first time in …
Jason E. Smith’s book Smart Machines and Service Work can be summed up in one denominator: The theories of post-capitalism and automation turn out to be a hollow form of Californian ideology. In it, the world of digital technologies – …
Automation. On Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work”
Im Gegensatz zu Smith halten wir den Finanzsektor in der Folge des griechischen Ökonomen John Milios für einen produktiven Sektor. Eine Zwischenposition nimmt Tony Norfield in seinem Buch The City ein, in dem er aufzeigt, dass kapitalistische Unternehmen sui generis …
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (4)
In light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large part, I’m responding to my friend Jeremy R. Smith’s recent post which he asked me to do. For anyone interested in learning more …
read here: you can order the book here: https://force-inc.org/p/riot-strike-riot Published by Galerie der Abseitigen Künste und NON.Derivate Herausgegeben von Karl-Heinz Dellwo / Achim Szepanski Übersetzung: Richard Bachmann, Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Jan Heintz Übersetzungslektorat: J. Paul Weiler Erscheint: Januar 2021 Jahrhunderte lang …
Einführung Das Buch von Jason E. Smith Smart Machines and Service Work lässt sich auf einen Nenner bringen: Die Theorien des Postkapitalismus und der Automation entpuppen sich als eine hohle Form der kalifornischen Ideologie. In dieser führe die Welt der …
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (1)
… In this context, financial risk is calculated on the basis of particular fetishistic representations of the events and outcomes of class struggle. Risk is the way capitalist agents perceive the future from an ideological point of view. Risk is …
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism. Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations
Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a mode of power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized power and researched how capitalists sustain, defend and augment their capitalized …
As we have already indicated in Capitalization Vol. 2 (Szepanski 2014b), the Greek economist John Milios, with his monetary value theory based on Louis Althusser’s reading of capital, has offered an important approach for a precise conceptual definition of the …
The interconnection or linking of government and financial capital is written now in academic literature today as the operational-organisational state-financial nexus. (Cf. Malik 2014) This state-financial nexus (the state’s management of the economy by ministries of finance, central banks, informal …
There is much debate over the distributive share of employees in national income – how to measure it, whether it goes up or down and, of course, why it matters. But something in this debate often seems amiss. Like many …
Can Capitalists Continue to Squeeze the Income Share of Employees?
The History of Accumulation In the previous lecture on what’s been called the ‘esoteric’ Marx, I explored a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. This ‘esoteric’ Marxism, sometimes called value-form theory, finds …