Cybernetics and Class Why speak of a global proletariat in the context of cybernetic capital? The term “cybernetics” has two meanings. The first is the school of thought that developed its theories for the British and American military in the […]
Nick Dyer-Withefords Cyber-Proletariat. Accumulation of Capital, Cybernetics and proletarian class.
The protests against the G-20 summit in Hamburg in the summer of 2017 culminated in a micro-insurgency in the Schanzenviertel. For the first time in a long time, a social antagonism was ignited in Germany for a brief moment, the
The Autumn of the Uprisings (2)
The Gilets Jaunes, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Egypt, Algeria, Guinea, Lebanon, Catalonia, and now Chile, these events mark the beginning of a new sequence of revolts. We (Lundi Matin*) have received this written communiqué jointly from Santiago and Paris and
A New Approach – The Autumn of the Uprising
“To abstain from violence against the violent is to become their accomplice. We do not have the choice between innocence and violence, but only between different forms of violence … Violence is the starting point common to all regimes. If
The Autumn of the Uprisings (1)
This is a translation of the article ‘Comment reprendre nos rues‘ from the Cerveaux Non Disponibles website. They can be followed on Twitter via @CerveauxNon Over ten months, the Gilets Jaunes movement has managed again and again to surprise: to
How to take back our streets: lessons from 10 months of resistance in France
Laruelle calls for a Marxist gnosis in his essay Marx with Planck and consequently calls himself not a Marxist, but a future-oriented Marxist in search of an aleatoric teleology that has no connection with what Marxist philosophy has hitherto set
It strikes me that the profound confusion, even incredulity, displayed by the French commentariat—and even more, the world commentariat—in the face of each successive “Acte” of the Gilets Jaunes drama, now rapidly approaching its insurrectionary climax, is a result of
The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet
Andreas Baader wrote at some point in this time: “The aim of the RAF is to dissolve the RAF” and also that it is “The aim of politics to dissolve politics”. read the interview here
An interview with Karl-Heinz Dellwo: 68 – Aborted Liberation
Originally published by Théorie Communiste as ‘Classe / segmentation / racisation. Notes’. Translated from the French by LNFC. There has always been segmentation within labor power. We must take it, then, as an objective determination of labor power under capital
Class/segmentation/racialization
Riots are the Sphinx of the left. Every soi disant radical intellectual feels compelled, it seems, to answer the riddle they hear posed by the riots of the present, in Bahrain or Asturias, Chile or Britain: Why now? Why here?
History and the Sphinx: Of Riots and Uprisings
Interview with Kristin Ross by Yavor Tarinski for Babylonia Journal. You can find the interview in Greek here. Kristin Ross gave an interview for Babylonia journal, analyzing the meanings and significance of May ’68. She will be among the keynote speakers
May ’68: Beyond the Artificial Commemorations and Remembrances
