A New Theory of Speculative Capital The book’s central theme is to develop a new theory of speculative capital related to other forms of capital, the world market, and the state. Besides most Marxist and heterodox theories, the book distinguishes …
The best starting point for reconstructing a world-historical theory of ecological transformation under capitalism is found in Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. For Marx and Engels (1970), the theory of metabolic rift centers on the ecological moment of the antagonistic …
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND THE METABOLIC RIFT IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
In his essay „Marx with Planck“, Laruelle calls for a Marxist gnosis and consequently calls himself not a Marxist, but a Marxist oriented towards the future, who is in search of an aleatory teleology that has no connection with what …
In discussions on the rate of profit and its tendency to fall and its role in Marxist theory, a number of phrases are often employed without clarifying what these might really mean. Primary among these are such phrases as ‘the …
For quite some time now, a governmental technique or governance has come to the fore in post-Fordist capitalism that is called debt. (Cf. Lazzarato 2012: 39f.) This is a dispositive that engages in the machinic fabrication of economic debt by …
The essay you published with Laika Publishing is called „Imperialism, State Fascism, and the War Machines of Capital.“ How do you define these individual terms? The war machine is a Deleuze/Guattari term, a machine that does not have war as …
interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May 68. Carole Dely – May 68 is often presented as one of the most important social …
If one does not read Deleuze exclusively in the context of a position critical of reason, which is commonly paraphrased as transcendental empiricism (cf. Rölli 2003), nor as a proponent of an ontological realism (cf. De Landa 2006), then Deleuze …
Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the path that cuts …
In 2012, global CO2 emissions were 58% higher than in 1990, causing, among other things, hurricanes to become stronger due to higher temperatures in ocean catchments and Arctic ecosystems to reach a number of tipping points. The limit at which …
From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in …
Over the past century, the nexus of imperialism and financialism has become a major axis of Marxist theory and praxis. Many Marxists consider this nexus to be a prime cause of our worldly ills, but the historical role they ascribe …