Originally published by Laboratorio Archeologia Filosofica. Written by Flavio Luzi. Translated by Ill Will, with assistance by the author. taken from here 1. Nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua “It seems to me that the real political task in a society […]
Marginal Notes on the Epidemic as Politics
Jason E. Smith’s book Smart Machines and Service Work can be summed up in one denominator: The theories of post-capitalism and automation turn out to be a hollow form of Californian ideology. In it, the world of digital technologies –
Automation. On Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work”
The theory of capital as power (CasP) is radically different from conventional political economy. In the conventional view, mainstream as well as heterodox, capital is seen a ‘real’ economic entity engaged in the production of goods and services, and capitalism
Unbridgeable: Why Political Economists Cannot Accept Capital as Power
Im Gegensatz zu Smith halten wir den Finanzsektor in der Folge des griechischen Ökonomen John Milios für einen produktiven Sektor. Eine Zwischenposition nimmt Tony Norfield in seinem Buch The City ein, in dem er aufzeigt, dass kapitalistische Unternehmen sui generis
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (4)
read here: you can order the book here: https://force-inc.org/p/riot-strike-riot you can listen a clover/malm discussion here Published by Galerie der Abseitigen Künste und NON.Derivate Herausgegeben von Karl-Heinz Dellwo / Achim Szepanski Übersetzung: Richard Bachmann, Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Jan Heintz Übersetzungslektorat: J.
Einführung Das Buch von Jason E. Smith Smart Machines and Service Work lässt sich auf einen Nenner bringen: Die Theorien des Postkapitalismus und der Automation entpuppen sich als eine hohle Form der kalifornischen Ideologie. In dieser führe die Welt der
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (1)
Die mit der Konkurrenz einhergehende Notwendigkeit zur Erhöhung der Produktivität für das einzelne Kapital führt zu einem sinkenden Wert der Waren, womit u. U. die Mehrwertrate (m/v) aufgrund der Verringerung des Werts des variablen Kapitals steigt, gleichzeitig lässt sich in künftigen
Produktivität und lebendige Arbeit. Zur Zusammenbruchstheorie von Kurz & Co.
… In this context, financial risk is calculated on the basis of particular fetishistic representations of the events and outcomes of class struggle. Risk is the way capitalist agents perceive the future from an ideological point of view. Risk is
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism. Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations
Today, I (Jeremy R. Smith) present two subsections from two untranslated texts by the heretical Marxist economist, Jacques Fradin. His texts are, first, La science des pauvres: traité de la richesse mortelle (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005) and La voie pauvre de la rébellion (Paris: L’Harmattan,
Translation of two excerpts by Jacques Fradin
If one follows the theory of technical objects as developed by the French theorist Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012), and subsequently Frédéric Neyrat’s statements in the anthology The Technological Condition (Hörl 2011), it is necessary for today’s hyper-technicalised societies to fundamentally
The Transclassic Machine (G. Anders, H.D. Bahr, F. Neyrat, G. Simondon)
A rational political evaluation of the present conjuncture has become a genuine rarity. Between the catastrophist homilies emanating from the most unwittingly religious sectors of environmentalism (we are on the brink of the Last Judgement) and the phantasmagorias of a
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a