„Geld regiert die Welt, und die von ihm regierte Welt droht in einer Katastrophe zu enden – sozial und ökologisch. Doch warum bestimmt das Geld überhaupt über den Lauf der Welt? … Mit dieser Herleitung des Geldes gelingt es endlich, […]
Originally published by Grupo Barbaria. Translated by Malcontent Editions. It’s difficult to write a text like this one right now. In the current context, in which coronavirus has busted – or soon threatens to – the living conditions of many
Grupo Barbaria: The Pandemics of Capital
Recently, the writings of Suzanne de Brunhoff (1929-2015), largely unknown at least in the German-speaking world, have again been mentioned by some Marxist economists and philosophers. Tony Norfield refers to Brunhoff in his book “The City” in a footnote in
Remarks on Suzanne de Brunhoffs “Marx on Money”
1) Economic quantities can be changed in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier of capital, has the quality of a pure quantity, whereby money is released from current acts of exchange and thus, as a monetary sign,
25 Theses at time (of capital)
At first glance, it seems that Deleuze’s concept of structure involves a complex form of the so-called creorder, a term that appears at the forefront of the methodological findings of the economists Bichler/Nitzan. (Cf. Bichler/Nitzan 2009) If the structure is
Bichler/Nitzans “Capital of Power”
In the opinion of Georgios Stamatis, Marx, in presenting the law of the tendentious case of the general rate of profit, equates value and price, among other things, in order to disregard the effect of the so-called Wicksell effects (including
The law of the tendentious fall of the general rate of profit in capital Bd.3
The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the point in time, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods), in which per se contingent encounters (those of the flows
The concept of capital at Deleuze/Guattari or the anarchy of machines
“We, and no one else.” – There is an overwhelming scene in Todd Haynes’ latest film, Dark Waters (2019), which shows how toxic chemicals used in the production of Teflon were spilled into the Ohio River. The lawyer, who went
Only us: Ecology-against-the-State
Quite in contrast to mechanics, which defines the concept of force as the result of mutually canceling forces in their relationship to each other, Marx also seems to have always been intent, in his critique of political economy, on breaking
Marx and the ecstatic labor force
One should by no means identify the abstract time of capital with a linear and homogeneous order of time, in which, in a continuous flow of time running ahead on the time stream, each time stage simultaneously excludes the other
The Time Modalities of Capital and Postone’s Misinterpretation
Dirk Baecker writes in a current article: “Capital too must not be thought in singular terms, but in plural terms”. If he then immediately jumps to the competition, he follows a trail without being able to represent and explain connections.
The Marxist concept of capital
Marx has assigned the financial instruments exclusively to the sphere of circulation and analysed their function separately from the functioning of the technologies or physical means of production, which preserve the past wealth and at the same time enable a
The esoteric Marx: relative surplus value, capital, finance