Paper presented at “Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today. On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital”, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017.
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”
– Frederic ...
AI, machines, marx, marxism, surplus value, technology, value
taken from Blackout
The following discussion with Félix Guattari took place in his apartment in Paris. With the help of a number of friends, I had prepared a set of questions, and had contacted him to see if he might be available to answer some of them.\1 He responded immediately, ...
Anti-Ödipus, body-without-organs, deleuze/guattari, desiring machines, guattari, machines, marxism, mille plateaux, Molecular Revolution, non-technology, pragmatic
The politics of algorithms has been on people’s minds a lot recently. Only a few years ago, tech authors were still hawking Silicon Valley as the great hope for humanity. Today one is more likely to see books about how math is a weapon, how algorithms are oppressive, and how ...
In 1916 his poem Express: A Siberian Fantasy, Alexei Gastev depicts a journey, undertaken by a high-speed passenger train, across a vast wasteland that has been transformed by the pulsing tumult of industrial modernity. The vision is one of an open future, characterized by the tearing away of the ...
alexei gastev, andrew ure, automation, industrial modernity, machines, marx, marxism, postfordism
The development of the means of labour into machinery is not an accidental moment of capital, but is rather the historical reshaping of the traditional, inherited means of labour into a form adequate to capital. The accumulation of knowledge and of skill, of the general productive forces of the social ...
automatic society, automation, Bernard Stiegler, capital, machines, marxism, negentropy, non-philosophy, technology
accumulation, class relation, featured, formal subsumtion, machines, real subsumption, reproduction
Part III. The Economic Concept of Ordinal Value in Chapter 9
Socially-necessary labor time, supply and demand, marginal utility, putative or nominal price, risk-weighted interest rates, or some combination of the above: what do all of these conceptions of the determinates of value share in common? In short, they are ...
capital, Deleuze, deleuze/guattari, finance, flow, line, machines, marxism, segment, war machine
Abstract
This paper critiques the purposes to which Marx’s Fragment on Machines is put in postoperaist thought. I suggest postoperaist readings wield influence on contemporary left thinking, via postcapitalism, accelerationism and ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’. Changes in labour lead proponents to posit a crisis of measurability and an incipient communism. ...
capital, machines, marx, marxism, neue marx lektüre, postoperaism, technology
