The digital network that sustains the functioning of our societies as well as their control mechanisms is the ultimate figure of the technical grid that sustains power – and does this not confer a new lease of life on Trotsky’s […]
Slavoj Zizek: The Next Revolution – the Digital Commons?
The current Facebook debate is a chance to get your act together and get organized – just a little. What does it mean to get dis-, re-, co-organized, to the worse, or the better? A further balkanisation, a migration to
This destruction of knowledge by the very thing that was created to increase it is what Marx called proletarianization, which occurs when this overall increase of knowledge is channelled and expropriated by what Marx called capital and the bourgeoisie at
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche In his torturous 2017 book Futurability Franco Berardi states that
They Say We Can’t Meme: Politics of Idea Compression
Es gibt es keine totale Anonymität, sie ist niemals perfekt und komplett. In Zeiten der sich perfektionierenden staatlichen und privaten Überwachungsapparate, die mit Techniken operieren, die von vernetzten Datenbanken über lernende Erkennungsalgorithmen bis hin zu biometrischen Ausweisen reichen, und ´dies
MoneyLab is a network of artists, activists, and geeks experimenting with forms of financial democratization. Entering the 10th year of the global financial crisis, it still remains a difficult yet crucial task to distinguish old wine from its fancy new
MoneyLab2 – Overcoming the Hype
24/7 metric and algorithmic governance are important features characteristic of automated and financialised capital that Jonathan Cray and Berns/ Rouvrey understand also as a new kind of technological performativity. In his book “Social Media Abyss” Geert Lovink – founding director
Economy and Power of the Net: Interview with Geert Lovink
Abstract: This article reviews Paul Mason’s book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”. It discusses Mason’s version of long wave theory, the book’s interpretation of Karl Marx, its analysis of the Grundrisse’s “Fragment on Machines”, and aspects of political struggles
Henryk Grossmann 2.0: A Critique of Paul Mason’s Book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”