The self-abolition of the proletariat as the end of the capitalist world (or why the current revolt doesn’t transform into revolution) “Exploitation, which is necessary to sustain the economy, has in the generalized installation of capital, managed historically to overcome […]
The self-abolition of the proletariat as the end of the capitalist world
Planning and Anarchy Central planning?! Computers can do it!!! Among the intuitions animating the contemporary left, we must rank rather high the felt sense that powerful new computing technologies now offer a solution to problems of calculation previously insuperable for
Nation-states dissolve into a global federation of dense cities counting one toten million and governed by the principle of subsidiarity. Large wilderness areasbetween these cities are left uninhabited, starting with today’s fragile ecosystems.All energy comes from renewables, all waste is
Some Principles of Geocommunism
A recent wave of protest activity against climate change, and general environmental degradation, has been seen around the world. But curiously open revolt around the world has not centered around climate change itself, but rather around circulation struggles: the name
Prole Wave: climate change, circulation struggles & the communist horizon
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes
Transcending the nation: a communist strategy in the era ofglobalization. A reply to Velissariou
Brief Histories of Invisibility Posted on August 7, 2019 by youandwhosearmy? What follows is a transcript of my response to Andrew Culp’s presentation of research from his forthcoming book, Indiscernibility: The Politics of the Unseen (currently under contract with University of
Brief Histories of Invisibility
The negation of work is the name of the process which abolishes work. The conversation around the abolition of work can get confusing because different theorists who write on this subject sometimes use the terms labor & work interchangeably, while
Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. The mostly talented and best trained soviet engineers set
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
… Since the ‘we’ is constituted by the class relation, the self-overcoming of the ‘we’ is the overcoming of the relation that constitutes it. This is certainly theoretically uncompromising (and admirable because of it). But it is also paradoxical, and
Distinct thoughts are coalescing after last night’s now-embarrassing waste of energy on Twitter arguments. I always regret fanning the flames with so much oxygen the morning after and, obviously, it would only be worse to delete it later. A very
Notes on the Communist Horizon as an Immanent Outside
For a life worth living. We are a year into the death, the real death, of liberalism. Or maybe two years? It was never more than our fair-weather friend, an often treacherous ally to the radicals who did the heavy
There is a major difference between what is now called ‘accelerationism’ and its utopian futurist influences from the early 20th century: whether human reason is powerful enough to not only overcome the conditions of capitalism but ultimately the biological limits
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism