Die Legende, dass unsere Musik, unsere Filme, unsere Comics automatisch mit dem Progressiven, Sozialen und Liberalen, mit der Verbesserung der Welt verbunden sein müssten, mit dem Geschmack von Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Geschwisterlichkeit – diese Legende haben wir schon seit geraumer […]
Pegida-Pop: Hirn ausschalten, Bier aufmachen!
With the changing funding paradigm for the arts in neoliberal economies, which is increasingly a prerogative of private institutions and corporations, the relation between art and Finance has acquired growing prominence within art discourses and practices. Beginning in the 1960s
Financialization as a Medium: Speculative Notes on Post-Blockchain Art
As I have argued in the first Moneylab Reader, money is a medium of the imagination. While it is often presumed to be a banal and basic substance marked by its fungibility, ease of use, widespread acceptance and legal status,
Dromology, Bolidism and Marxist accelerationism, an odd text by Obsolete Capitalism written in the summer of 2015, represents the first endeavor in the speculative philosophical sphere known by the equally eccentric name of “accelerationism”. The main source of the book
The present work does not have a starting point but many starting points, centres of strength and lines of movement that compose it. One of the dynamic points is shown by the title: Chaos Sive Natura. It is a Nietzschean
Obsolete Capitalism Sound System :: Chaos Sive Natura. Electric Tree and Electronic Rhizome
It has recently come to light that over 31,000 police officers were on duty in Hamburg during last summer’s G20 summit. Of all the footage taken that week, one photograph truly captures the spirit and quality of policing during the
The Spiral of Police Violence A Work of Art Criticism
In September of 2014, after the People’s Climate March in New York City, where an estimated 300,000 people gathered to raise awareness about the issue of climate change, images circulated online depicting litter left behind by the protesters. Among the
DEFILING IMMUNDITY: ON BEING PROPERLY IMPROPER
Während Kraftwerk noch die Kraftquellen der Industrialisierung anzapfen musste, saugt Paradroid die Informationsflüsse der Kommunikationsindustrien auf, dreht sich durch das digitale Equipment, um sie als clickende, entropische und nonsequenzielle Sequenzen, bei denen das nächste Pattern nicht weiß, was das erste
Paradroid-Alien Musik aus der n-ten Dimension
Questions – Andrej Tomažin Answers – Achim Szepanski 1. In the nineties, you were running the label Mille Plateaux and before that – in the eighties – you were a part of noise/post-punk collective PD and later P16.D4. With Mille
Interview with Radio Študent, Ljubljana, Slovenia- Otitis Media
Der Musiker, Labelbesitzer, postmoderne Theoretiker, Herausgeber bei Suhrkamp, Schriftsteller und Deleuze/Guattari-Enthusiast Achim Szepanski veröffentlicht in diesen Tagen drei voluminöse Romane. Aber über was? Telepolis lauschte dem ambitionierten Autoren und gab ein paar Stichworte zum autopoietischen Monolog. Herr Szepanski, um
Was dem Humanen am fremdesten ist
Detroit may not be dead, but the corpse has already been consumed. Detroit is the site for symmetrical fantasies of dystopian social collapse and urban disintegration, on the one hand, and utopian urban gardening and the ‘greening’ of post-Fordism, on
Dead Detroit Lies Dreaming: Techno (Anti-) Accelerationism
