1.Teil hier Neyrat fragt, was es heißt, ein Subjekt des Außen zu sein: Man individuiert sich immer, wenn man vom Außen beginnt, ein leerer Fall, ein Nichtbegegnen, ein Riss oder einfach der Wahnsinn. Dieser Riss der Individuation ist das ek- […]
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If accelerationism has a key idea, it is that it is either impossible or undesirable to resist or negate the development of the commodity economy coupled with technology. Rather, it has to be pushed harder and faster, that it
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Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some “observations,” but a new style of theoretical hypotheses. They assume a
Laruelle, François. “Le concept d’une ‘technologie première’” in Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l’individituation et la technique. Paris: Albin Michel, 1994. 206-219. The Concept of a “First Technology” François Laruelle A “Unified Theory” of Technics and Technology In order to
The Concept of a ‘First Technology’
Translated by Taylor Adkins and Chris Eby The unified theory of thought and computing [calcul][2], a unification in-the-last-identity, is a task facing every encyclopedic mind (Morin, Serres). It is also the theme of the transcendental computer (TC), of a machine
The Transcendental Computer: A Non-Philosophical Utopia
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Introduction to Non-Marxism: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI)
[This is a really rough outline/introductory sketch for the third chapter of my dissertation, which takes up the relationship between the persisting residual eurocentrism in specific interpretations of D&G’s political project, and how D&G themselves constructed a framework by which
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