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
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
Bernard Stieglers “Automated Society”
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
Financial Capital in the 21th Century / Introduction
Mike Davis From Side Car/New Left Review (07/03/2022). Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheiks, and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed
The 2007-2008 financial crisis is without precedent in the post-war period, a factacknowledged by the majority of economists. At the same time, the crisis is a ‘marginalmoment’ which unveils and helps us rethink the workings of contemporary capitalism. Thelatter is
By assets we do not mean – as usually assumed – individual assets or realizable income, nor investments in the form of goods or money, but very specific forms of speculative capital. We assume in this section a progressive differentiation
Deleuze/Guattari and the synthetic Asset
The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish and how Kittler posits human beings as
Human Material in the Communication of Capital
Temps Critiques The Performative Discourse of Power With its attacks against state handouts and its rejection of guaranteed income, Macron’s speech of November 9th on labor value (or on labor “as value”) was little more than a rehearsal of what Jospin1 had
Labor Value and Labor as Value