Productivity and Labour
The need to increase the productivity of individual capital, which goes hand in hand with competition, leads to a decline in the value of goods, which may increase the rate of added value (m/v) due to the reduction in the […]
technology
About the NON-Technological Use of Machines
In the course of the industrial use of electricity, the emergence of new communication and transport technologies and routes (including their partial nationalization), the creeping process of dissolving the classical machinery of the industrial age or at least its integration
About the NON-Technological Use of Machines
Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School
Undoubtedly, Joseph Alois Schumpeter ‘was one of the greatest economists of all time’ (Haberler, 1950, p. 1) who made seminal contributions to economics and had a major impact on the development of the discipline in the twentieth century. However, some
Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School
Covid-19: Philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s Insight from the Angle of Memory
… Our current economic model is centred on physical and symbolic hyper-communication between almost every place throughout the world, and this considerably increases the danger. This model, which is also that of the ‘data economy’, is very dangerous because it
Covid-19: Philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s Insight from the Angle of Memory
The Paucity of Digital Theory
A provocation: theories of the digital have generated very little digital theory. What do I mean? And why is this the case? First, one must separate the form of digital theory from the kinds of objects it wants to study. Thus a
The Trans Classical Machine (G. Anders, H.D. Bahr, F. Neyrat, G. Simondon)
If one follows the theory about technical objects as developed by the French theorist Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012), and then the statements of Frédéric Neyrat in the anthology Die technologische Bedingung (The Technological Condition, Hörl 2011), it is necessary for
The Trans Classical Machine (G. Anders, H.D. Bahr, F. Neyrat, G. Simondon)
Perfect Machines: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Theory of Value
Paper presented at “Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today. On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital”, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017. “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the
Perfect Machines: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Theory of Value
Inhuman Power / Review (1)
Das Autorenteam Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff hat mit Inhuman Power ein verdienstvolles Buch zur AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) aus marxistischer Sicht vorgelegt. AI definieren die Autoren als die Fähigkeit in einem bestimmten Zeitraum angemessene Generalisierungen auf Grundlage von limitierten Daten zu
Gilets Jaunes im globalen Kontext
Dies ist ein erster Versuch, die Bewegung der gilets jaunes zu verstehen und sie auf den Kontext übergreifender Zusammenhänge zu beziehen. Wir müssten nun, unseren sozialrevolutionären Grundsätzen und Methoden folgend, an den Äußerungen aus dieser Bewegung anknüpfen um von hier
Gilets Jaunes im globalen Kontext
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. The mostly talented and best trained soviet engineers set
On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
Wandering Abstraction
… Since the ‘we’ is constituted by the class relation, the self-overcoming of the ‘we’ is the overcoming of the relation that constitutes it. This is certainly theoretically uncompromising (and admirable because of it). But it is also paradoxical, and