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
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
The new mantra is: we have no demands. We don’t want political representation. We don’t want collective bargaining. We don’t want a seat at the table. We want to leave be, to leave being . We have no demands. Das
Black Box, Black Bloc (English/German)
Revolutionary Luxury, Bureaucratic Administration Any politics that seeks an encompassing notion of liberation and freedom must, first and foremost, be oriented towards the future, and must pursue this horizon through goal-oriented actions. This effectively sets up a feedback system, linking
Fully Automated Luxury Individualist Anarchism
Lapo Berti: … I have already said how I was struck by the lack of analysis of the Accelerationist hypothesis. I also want to stress that this is the least Marxian, if not the most anti-Marxian, conduct. According to Marx the
Accelerated Fantasies (Lapo Berti)
The hyper-industrial state of fact takes what Deleuze called control societies, founded on modulation by the mass media, into the stage of hyper-control. The latter is generated by self-produced personal data, collected and published by people themselves – whether knowingly
In many respects, it would make sense to read Andrzej Steinbach’s series “Ordinary Stones” in continuity with his last work, “Figur I, Figur II”1. The works bear similarities, perhaps even obvious ones, but approaching this work via analogy would mean
Human Clay, Hardened Clay, Ordinary Stones english/german
Version 1 Black Dada antwortet mit Grausamkeit. Entwickelt einen Geschmack für die Destruktion. Geschmack an der Destruktion einer Welt, die im Nanosekundenbereich heißgelaufen ist. Einer Welt, die mal wieder ihre Kriege hat. Manche Städte werden von Kampfflugzeugen bombardiert, andere von
Blackness in Zeiten, in denen jeder das Ende der Welt in der Hand haben will.
#ermanoise 1 Vogelzwitschern 2 Hinterhof 3 cordon sanitaire (Stop beeing creative) 4 This is the Sound of Depression 5 This is the Sound of Negativism 6 Stadthonigbienenetat 7 Multiklasse, gestört 8 ASMRec.fieldburnout 9 Rumination 10 Die Waffen der Stille 11
Over on The Real Movement blog Jehu has a timely post that carefully evaluates the so-called post-capitalist notion as erroneous. He begins with the worn and obvious quote by Zizek ironizing the notion that “it’s much easier to imagine the end of
Subtraction Theory: The Future of Capitalism
On the occasion of Achille Mbembe’s new preface to the African reprint of On the Postcolony by Wits University Press. Mbembe: Critique is witnessing as well as endless vigilance, interrogation and anticipation. A proper critique requires us first to dwell
Afro-pessimism as Aesthetic Blackness? [Putting the Pessimism in Afro-Pessimism]
Allem Gerede von Datenautobahnen, Hochgeschwindigkeitszügen und Kopfschmerztabletten mit beschleunigter Wirkung zum Trotz: In Wahrheit steht alles still. Nur das nervöse Zucken immer engerer Produktionszyklen erweckt den Anschein von Bewegung – wie bei einer Fahrt auf einem Karussel, das auf der
Schneller als die Sonne – Schlafen mit toten Dingen & Vorwärts und vergessen