Capitalism forever (excerpt3)
In general, you can only admire capitalism the longer you spend with it. Marx probably felt very much the same way; in the end, he no longer knew what could replace it. The chapter on communism at the end of […]
In general, you can only admire capitalism the longer you spend with it. Marx probably felt very much the same way; in the end, he no longer knew what could replace it. The chapter on communism at the end of […]
Most Marxist discourses understand both technology, the logical discourse on the teleology of complete mastery of nature, which proves to be the decisive orientation for the Western natural sciences, and the technical object, the practical object of the theoretical sciences,
Here, we will present an initial, very general outline of derivative quantum field communism, drawing particularly from texts by Stefan Heidenreich on non-monetary economics, Robert Meister on the question of justice as an option, and Danah Zohar on quantum management.
Derivative QuantumField Communism 1
We’ll consider the economy (of) capitalism, its “economic” character even more than its “capitalist” one, as the major force of destruction of spaces and forms of life (ecumenes). The economy-capitalism as an expansive bloc of colonization—of bodies as well as
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Bue Rübner Hansen and Emanuele Leonardi Read Part II and Part III QUESTION 1: How do you define degrowth? Nick: Over the last few years the intensifying climate emergency and other ecological crises has stirred a surge of
recent video interview with Annie Le Brun for the lundimatin collective is the occasion to return to her critical work. Below, we share this interview, followed by a second for Le Média, and an excerpt from her essay, Ce qui
Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack Spencer Beswick (The Institute for Anarchist Studies, 29/07/2022) May Day, 1987: thousands of black-clad Autonomen (“those who are autonomous”) riot in West Berlin. After a decade spent honing their street-fighting tactics,
Destituent power as living communism
(In this essay, we stick closely to Tari’s text and only make a few critical comments, because the text is probably largely unknown in the German-speaking world. A further essay would probably be needed for a further discussion and a
Marcello Tari and the problem of destitution. Revolutionaries are activists of the end times.
The word ‘migrant’ makes it look as if the essence of the person we are talking about were to leave, to travel under terrible conditions, and to wind up somewhere. But no! That person’s historical essence, itself the result of
Migration and the New Communist Politics (Book Review of Alain Badiou, Migrants and Militants, 2020)
Below, we share a chapter of this work entitled, “Of Being-in-Common”, which was also published in united states as a separate essay in a volume entitled, Community at Loose Ends (1991). … What could be more common than to be,
Notes for the London Conference Birbeck College The following are the notes that Jean-Luc Nancy prepared for the conference ‘On the Idea of Communism’, March 2009. An edited version is available in Costas Douzinas & Slavoj Zizek (eds), The Idea of
Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on
The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy