Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is […]
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish and how Kittler posits human beings as
Human Material in the Communication of Capital
The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its critique. The thesis is
you can order here 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
Financial Capital in the 21st Century
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
The quantum Marxism of laruelle
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
THE COURSE OF THE RATE OF PROFIT
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
Indebtedness – Liability and debts
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
68, without end. Exchanges with Jean-Luc Nancy
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
The Problem of The “Problem” – On Deleuze (and Althusser)
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
Capitalocene and fossil capital (malm; Moore)