taken from positions politics I saw the sunBorn from a great silenceI saw the sun burning towards a great deathI have walked above many deaths and much silenceBut I cannot describe the sunToo late to its waningToo early to its […]
The Discreet Charm of Coronavirus
/0/. The Most Savage Fruit of Alienation Despite the revolutionary promise of the nomadic war machines relation to the State, Deleuze and Guattari are quick to note that “…the present situation is highly discouraging. We have watched the war machine grow
The War Machine Is Not Your Friend: Notes on Minoritarian Politics
taken from Ill Will. you will find another interview with the author on Ill Will. 1. The unthought Can we think something like a “revolt”? Has revolt been thought? Under what conditions might thought be able, eventually, to grasp what
The Anarchy of Beginnings: Notes on the Rhythmicity of Revolt
“The exact development of the concept of capital is necessary, since it is the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself, whose abstract counterpart (Gegenbild) is its concept, is the foundation of bourgeois society. The sharp formulation of
This article seeks to contribute to the existing critical debates on money and debt by advancing three main arguments. First, largely due to such debates’ tendency for description, the article argues that in in the heterodox literature on money and
Capitalized money, austerity and the math of capitalism
The self-abolition of the proletariat as the end of the capitalist world (or why the current revolt doesn’t transform into revolution) “Exploitation, which is necessary to sustain the economy, has in the generalized installation of capital, managed historically to overcome
The self-abolition of the proletariat as the end of the capitalist world
taken from Spectre Journal Never has the global economy faced such a thorough challenge from a virus. Previous epidemics scythed through populations and ravaged livelihoods, but they remained contained on a regional scale or, where global, impacted the world economy
Covid Capitalism. General Tendencies, Possible “Leaps”
Differing approaches to the issue of the beginnings of capitalismimply different conceptualization of what capitalism is. This paperelaborates on the notion of original accumulation. It utilizes theMarxist notion of the mode of production to provide the conceptof the historicalfigure which
Marx’s Inquiry into the Birth of Capitalism: Why Does It Matter?
Karl Marx is not a proponent of classical value theory as labour expended. Marx developed in Capital and his other mature economic writings a monetary theory of value and capital.2 He analysed value as an expression of relations exclusively characteristic
Value, Fictitious Capital and Finance. The Timeless of Karl Marx’s Capital
To continue from our conclusions regarding the question of what it would mean to love as a communist, we begin from the idea that abolition is what necessary binds communism as real movement to problems encountered in the life of
When Jean Baudrillard announced that the year 2000 would not take place, one had to suspect evil. It is no exaggeration to say that the financial crisis of 2008 was the only event of world historical significance in the new
The financial crisis in 2008 took place.
Planning and Anarchy Central planning?! Computers can do it!!! Among the intuitions animating the contemporary left, we must rank rather high the felt sense that powerful new computing technologies now offer a solution to problems of calculation previously insuperable for