Information is a central concept for Jonathan Beller’s book World Computer. For Beller, the drastic increase of information implies the possibility of concluding a derivative contract on any phenomenon, which does not mean anything else than that the existence of […]
Jonathan Bellers`s World Computer – The automatic Horror of liquid Super-World-Capital
lecture at University Hamburg 17.1.2024 “Overfished, overvalued, overcommunicated, overbranded, overaesthetized, overmedicated, overmonitored, overvirtualized, overmedialized” (Kroker, Krooker, Cook 1989: 13). Today, it is speculative capitalization in particular – inextricably linked to the rise of networked computers – that has led to
Capitalism in Times of Catastrophe (lecture)
Introduction The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an immense collection of commodities assets. — paraphrasing Karl Marx The mirages revolt The financial meltdown of 2008 presented an opportunity to examine certain fundamental
From Commodities to Assets / Capital as Power and the Ontology of Finance
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is
Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is
Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music