Thinking about the James Webb telescope’s peering into the origins of our universe and seeing the remnants of galaxies that began over 13 billion years ago I wonder if the species of those early galaxies survived and migrated to newer …
Looking back at the history of labor struggles since the advent of capitalism, one pattern is striking: struggles against the devaluation and for the decommodification of labor have tended to trigger ‘fixes’ and ‘innovations’ of capital, including technological ones. Thus, …
(Schaar, John H., Jacques Ellul: Between Babylon and the New Jerusalem, Democracy Journal, no. 4, pp. 102-118.) Jacques Ellul is of the tribe of the hedgehog. From 1954, when La technique ou l’enjeu du siècle appeared, until the present, he has …
For a further explanation of the concept of capital, we refer to French philosopher François Laruelle, who, in his conception of non-philosophy, speaks of “unilateral duality”. He generally first assumes that two or more terms and their relations are always …
Philosophy, in its longing to rationalize, formalize, define, delimit, to terminate enigma and uncertainty, to co-operate wholeheartedly with the police, is nihilistic in the ultimate sense that it strives for the immobile perfection of death.…….– Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings …
… The experimental technological utopia currently underway, that of a humanity confined to their homes, can be understood in this light: it proposes that we simply inhabit our own worldlessness [acosmie].It aims to spare us the experience of the loss …
Most Marxist discourses understand both technology, the logical discourse around the teleology of accomplished mastery of nature, which turns out to be the decisive orientation for the Western natural sciences, and the technical object, the practical object of the theoretical …
What if Virilio’s compelling rendering of integral accidents – as chain reactions” of “incidents and disasters” – is turned inside out, into the heart of capitalism’s much vaunted capacity for “innovation”? Integral accidents issue from capitalism’s specific integration of power, profit and …
As Danowski and Viveiros de Castro show in their argument, Deleuze’s concept of minor technologies, i.e., the different exercise of techniques (or “techopoetics”), paves a possible way toward constructing planetary cybernetics. read here Foto: Sylvia John
Where does the stereo effect begin, the point at which hi-fi becomes so uselessly refined that the music is lost in the obsession with its fidelity? Where is the point at which the social becomes so uselessly refined that it …
“What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?”― Alberto Moravia We now ‘see’ that technocommercial systems, whose catallactic being is strictly analogous to a convergent wave, belong indubitably …
We saw it in the early Nineties, where I first started really picking up on this type of thing – that there was an overt ideological thesis, that was at that time called the “Californian Ideology”. —Nick Land “Every weirdo …