Two years ago we wrote the following on the question of a state fascization that is not only coming, but already exists: The “institutional preventive dispositive” that characterizes the current state, which for Poulantzas, however, also already characterized authoritarian etatism […]
I am not writing from Bolivia, but from a territory called uncertainty. I write from the last place in line to obtain the colonial vaccination, which in many countries will be applied as a dose of government salvation and as
taken from Ill Will The following is an excerpt from Grégoire Chamayou’s The Ungovernable Society. A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism, appearing with Polity Press this spring. Business itself, since it is engaged in a competitive struggle, is at war. -Arthur
The Production of the Dominant Dialogy
Tim Di Muzio & Richard Robbins 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
Capitalized Money, Austerity and the Math of Capitalism
Social subjection, however, is only one form, strategy and method of constituting the modern subject. Let us therefore turn to the second important form of subjectivation, the individual. Deleuze/Guattari call this process, which is different from social subjection, and which
Deleuze: The Machinic Enslavement and the Dividual in Control Societies
John Milios/ Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos A crucial aspect of nearly all contemporary approaches to imperialism is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of the globalized financial sector of the economy produces a predatory version of capitalism, a capitalism
Financialization:Market Discipline or Capital Discipline?
… Financial markets generate a structure for overseeing the effectiveness of individual capitals, that is to say a type of supervision of capital movement. The demand for high financial value puts pressure on individual capitals (enterprises) for more1 intensive and
After Brexit and Donald Trump: Is Nationalism challenging Neoliberalism?
The argument of this paper is that the migrant is also a defining figure of neoliberal social reproduction. This argument is composed of three interlocking theses on what I am calling the “neoliberal migrant.” Thesis 1: The first thesis argues
THREE THESES ON NEOLIBERAL MIGRATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
In classical fascism, an organization, initially external to the state and strictly hierarchically structured, gained dominance over the state apparatuses through legal seizure of power, only to merge with them in a specific way, thus maintaining the crisis-ridden capitalist system
The title is borrowed from Gilles Châtelet’s book To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies. What maxim does Châtelet refer to in his book that demands another life instead of a pig’s
Neoliberal Capitalism: Living and Thinking Like Pigs
abstract In the context of ubiquitous data capture and the politics of control, there is growing individual and managerial interest in ‘pulse’, both in the literal sense of arterial pulse (now monitored through wearable technology) and in a metaphorical sense
The political economy of pulse: Techno-somatic rhythm and real-time data
Thesis 1: The first thesis argues that the migrant is foremost a socially constitutive figure. That is, we should not think of the migrant as a derivative or socially exceptional figure who merely travels between preconstituted states. The movement and
Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction