Editor’s Note: This piece, written by several authors, oscillates between plural and singular voices, with the intended effect of collaging three perspectives together in a unified décollage. “I’ll never forget the time I went to Dimes Cafe at 4 am …
As Danowski and Viveiros de Castro show in their argument, Deleuze’s concept of minor technologies, i.e., the different exercise of techniques (or “techopoetics”), paves a possible way toward constructing planetary cybernetics. read here Foto: Sylvia John
Autonomies share below an interview with Yuk Hui for the french magazine, Ballast (09/07/2020). “Change the system”, “fight the system”, “profit from the system”: the space of politics and the media is saturated with this reference – a world order …
Two years ago we wrote the following on the question of a state fascization that is not only coming, but already exists: The „institutional preventive dispositive“ that characterizes the current state, which for Poulantzas, however, also already characterized authoritarian etatism …
When the Academy of Marxist-Leninist Organizational Science (AMLO) was founded in Berlin-Wuhlheide in 1969, no one could have imagined that the cybernetization of the GDR would instigate a series of reforms within the socialist brother states worldwide. AMLO was an exemplary …
BLACK BOX EAST: How socialist cybernetics helped the GDR unlearn Marxism-Leninism
»The relentless unity of the culture industry bears witness to the emergent unity of politics.« —Th. W. Adorno & M. Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightment «According to the tenets of Hyperstition, there is no difference in principal between a universe, a …
(Cybernetic-)‘Post-Pop‘: affect art(s) & (emotional) self-governing
In her book Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi calls on us to distance ourselves from two – still relevant today – metacomputational definitions, according to which a) algorithms are determined as finite quantities, or b) as evolutionary interactive models, the latter …
Luciana Parisi and the problem of the predictability of unpredictability
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.
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
Die Automation, deren Anwendung heute ohne den umfassenden Einsatz von Informationstechnologien allerdings nicht möglich wäre, ist seit den 1980er Jahren eine wesentliche technologische Komponente der neuen internationalen Dynamik der Kapitalakkumulation, wobei weltweit einerseits sogar neue Arbeitsplätze geschaffen (vor allem in …
Die globalen Wertschöpfungsketten und das globale Proletariat
People have often insisted — T.E. Lawrence is no exception — on the kinetic dimensions of politics and war as a strategic counterpoint to a quantitative concept of relations of force. That’s the typical guerrilla perspective as opposed to the …
… Conclusion: For K-ommunism? Marx (1964), in his famous, or notorious, comparison of the ‘worst of architects’ and the ‘best of bees’, saw the former distinguished by an ability to ‘erect in imagination’ the structure he will create. Today, with …