John Milios & George Economakis Austerity constitutes the cornerstone of neoliberal policies. On the surface, itworks as a strategy of reducing entrepreneurial cost. Austerity reduces labour costs ofthe private sector, increases profit per (labour) unit cost and thereon boosts the […]
The working class and the middle classes: Allies in a common anti-neoliberal strategy?
The history of eco-fascism is somewhat cloudy, but its origin draws from the previously existent eugenics movement and combines it with a form of hideous ecological disguise that aims to justify its murderous elements. The eco-fascists, more or less, are
Eco-fascism: The Rhetoric of the Virus
An especially rough draft of a book chapter for the forthcoming collection,Neoliberalism and its Double-Binds (2022) ] On May 24, we admired on television the impressive Paris demonstration called by the central CGT trade union. Throughout the country were other
Communism Is The Riddle Posed To History
Jonathan Beller’s new book, The World Computer, is on the intimate relation between information and power. Characterized by the author as “political in intention, speculative in execution, and concrete in its engagement” (70), the book touches on computers, photography, film,
YOU DIE THE WAY YOU LIVE Covid-19 is a contagious disease with a rate of spread much higher than that of influenza: it causes few serious cases, but their severity is extreme, particularly for at-risk individuals (especially over 65), and
1 – The “market” conditions life Recently, the OECD offered to the “market”, a very comprehensive picture of the economy for the near future, through the much talked – as little strict, GDP. (see chart at the end). In particular, the market
In this regard, it is important to realize that, while debt is a technology of power, and that creditors exercise an inordinate amount of control over debtors, the wealth of the 1% lies largely in the pockets of the 99%
Debt as Power Sample Chapter – Towards a Stark Utopia
BY DENNIS BÜSCHER-ULBRICH, MARLON LIEBER. Coils of the Serpent ISSUE 8 (2021): IM/POSSIBILITY: ON THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND ARTICULATION OF THE POSSIBLE AND Joshua Clover: I suppose this question pivots on how we define socialism. Is it still thelower stage of communism,
“TO PRESERVE THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMUNAL LIFE AND EMANCIPATION”: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSHUA CLOVER
Today, I (Jeremy R. Smith) present two subsections from two untranslated texts by the heretical Marxist economist, Jacques Fradin. His texts are, first, La science des pauvres: traité de la richesse mortelle (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005) and La voie pauvre de la rébellion (Paris: L’Harmattan,
Translation of two excerpts by Jacques Fradin
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a
Designed to accelerate capitalism, logistics is key to maintaining the Western phantasm that ‘capitalism is an intelligent computer’ and to concealing the labor of those whose hands sustain its ‘operating system.’ In this SILENT WORKS interview Magdalena Taube and Krystian
De-Assembling the Deterritorialized Cyborg
Originally published by Mute. Written by Shemon and Arturo. Image above: ‘Looting rampant’ in Philly. Glass shatters. Thick plumes of dark black smoke pour out of a burning police car stalled in the middle of 52nd street. Another black man shot dead by the police.
Cars, Riots, & Black Liberation: #Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace Rebellion