… Among other things, whiteness is a kind of solipsism. From right to left, whites consistently and successfully reroute every political discussion to their identity. The content of this identity, unsurprisingly, is left unexamined and undefined. It is the false […]
I would like to pursue the problem of the economy of flows; last time, someone wanted a more precise definition of flows, more precise, that is, than something which flows upon the socius. What I call the socius is not
Every civilization must decide what is, and what is not, valuable. The Marxist tradition makes occasional reference to a “law of value.” It is not a phrase that rolls easily off the tongue, apparently. It sounds quaint, curiously out of
The Value of Everything? Work, Capital, and Historical Nature in the Capitalist World-Ecology
On the Anti-City: I think it’s a form of desire for inertia, desire for ubiquity, instantaneousness – a will to reduce the world to a single place, a single identity. – Paul Verilio, Pure War We’ve passed through the looking
Chapter 1 highlights the fundamental characteristics that, in their interconnectedness, distinguish capitalism from all other social systems: (i) wage labour, (ii) monetization of the whole economy (money-begetting money), (iii) concentration of the means of production and dissociation of the capitalist
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System
Erscheint im Oktober im Laika Verlag. Laika/Non.Derivate003 Die hier publizierten Essays stehen in einem untergründigen Zusammenhang. Im ersten Essay wird mit der Zeichnung von wenigen abstrakten und weitläufigen Linien versucht, jenes eigentümliche Objekt »Staat« zu konstruieren, ohne dabei der Versuchung
Durchgeknallte Maschinen: Kapital, Staat und Faschismus. (Buchveröffentlichung)
Die Betrachtung von Arbeitslosigkeit, sozialer Exklusion oder Prekarität kann nicht bei der empirischen Frage nach den Lebensbedingungen der betroffenen Gruppen stehen bleiben, denn als soziologisch gefasste Identitäten sind sie lediglich Erscheinungsformen oder Momente der Totalität von Kapital und Arbeit. Die
Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You (DE)
Introduction The following article was written in the early months of 2015. It is the result of a series of discussions and readings by the Surplus Club in Frankfurt am Main in accordance with the topic of the 2007-08 crisis
Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You
Abstract This paper critically reviews some fundamental theses of the theories of imperialism. It claims that a theory of imperialism, if based on Marx’s theory of capitalism, shall on the one hand reject the traditional monopoly-capitalism approach and on the
Imperialism or (and) Capitalist Expansionism
Political theory in the twenty-first century is at an interesting crossroads where migration has reached such a critical threshold that what seemed to be an exception has now become the rule. The question now is how to understand the rules
The Political Centrality of the Migrant
Haiti is home to the slave rebellion that became arguably the great revolution of the modern world. For its trouble, totally not-racist liberal democratic nations punished it systematically until it was one of the poorest nations on the planet. Except
What are fitted values in statistics? The values for an output variable that have been predicted by a model fitted to a set of data. a statistical is generally an equation, the graph of which includes or approximates a majority
Global Significance of Chinese Investments