LiPuma untersucht in einem weiteren Abschnitt die verschiedenen Institutionen des spekulativen Kapitals. Der erste Bereich sind Geschäfts- und Investmentbanken, die an den Derivatmärkten spekulieren. Diese Unternehmen besitzen interne Hedgefonds, die mit dem firmeneigenen Kapital spekulieren, das heißt mit dem Kapital […]
150 years after its publication, Marx’s Capital remains stunningly relevant today. In essence, it is a research program launched by Marx without ever having been completed, and which is basically an ongoing project, as its object is, as Marx himself
150 years Karl Marx’s “Capital”
Wir legen hier in drei Teilen einen Vorbericht zu dem Buch Das spekulative Kapital vor, welches die erste umfassende Studie einer neuen Kapitalform beinhaltet, die die Ökonomien des 21. Jahrhunderts beherrscht. Dabei beziehen wir uns in diesem Bericht des öfteren
The essay we (autonomies) share below is by the brazilian philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart. (In the absence of the original portuguese language version, our translation relies upon a spanish language translation published by lobo suelto!) The exercise undertaken is difficult
Elements for a cartography of belonging to a group
… Since the ‘we’ is constituted by the class relation, the self-overcoming of the ‘we’ is the overcoming of the relation that constitutes it. This is certainly theoretically uncompromising (and admirable because of it). But it is also paradoxical, and
This paper places digital labour in the context of recently revived interest in the young Marx’s concept of ‘species-being’ (Gatungswesen). Cryptically and fragmentarily announced in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, but largely abandoned in Marx’s later work, the
Digital labour, species-becoming and the global worker
Originally published in French on Paris-Luttes.info on Jan. 11th 2019. Translated by our collaborator in French, Otto Mattik and edited by us at Ediciones Inéditos. It is a glimpse at the looming capitalist crisis to come and how the writer
The Coming crisis, breath & yellow vests: where are we going?
The difference between the two points of view will thus be all the more pronounced. The Marxist notion of the proletariat entails a triple consideration: its position within the structure of production, determined at minimum by its dispossession of the
Politicising Deleuzian Thought, or, Minority’s Position within Marxism
There’s some fascinating comments by Louis Armand in an essay featured in Alienist #4 that deal with Primož Krašovec’s ‘Alien Capital’: This Alien metaphor can be taken a step further, in that it exceeds the notion of simply an economic
Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos John Milios & Spyros Lapatsioras Introduction In a recent special report of the Economist on financial risk it was argued that “the idea that markets can be left to police themselves turned out to be the world’s
Demystifying Finance: How to understand financialization and think of strategies for a good society
