1) Economic quantities are changeable in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from actual acts of exchange and thus, as a monetary sign, …
However, it seems uncertain—if not highly doubtful—that all those with an in-fluence on the future, especially those with fossil fuel interests, will firstly comprehend projected time, then feel inclined to adopt it, and on top of that, coordinate with everyone …
There’s something mysterious about finance. The symbols are arcane. The math is complex. The practitioners are impressively educated. And the stakes are high. All of this gives finance the veneer of higher truth — as if quants are uncovering a …
taken from bluelabyrinths.com in a small ghost town, there’s a little arcadewhere the poltergeists play their video games In my previous post I argued that it was necessary to distinguish Fisher and Derrida when considering hauntology, especially when criticising it. …
Anti-Hauntology: Derrida and Stiegler on Dancing With Ghosts and Education
The Time of Climate and the Climate of Time Time travel narratives are in some regard a paradigm for speculative fiction itself. They focalize the broader tradition of setting a story at a distant historical moment, future or past, passing …
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 …
… In this sense the horrible final scene of Janice and UIQ merged in her body and unable to enunciate any stable subjective position, even to a point beyond death, is not a cautionary tale warning us back from the …
The time we are now living through is without doubt the most critical period capitalist society has ever known. All the features which we associate with the classic crisis now exist as a permanent state of affairs, though production itself …