There’s some fascinating comments by Louis Armand in an essay featured in Alienist #4 that deal with Primož Krašovec’s ‘Alien Capital’: This Alien metaphor can be taken a step further, in that it exceeds the notion of simply an economic […]
…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures. —Edmund Berger Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his
Edmund Berger: On Art and Revolutionary Transformation in the Age of Blockchain – Part 1
The unlikely parable that Xenophon relates between Socrates and their mutual friend Aristippus of Cyrene serves as a lead in to the subject of this post. Socrates had observed his friend Aristippus for some time and felt that the young
The Hedonistic Imperative: The Seduction of Hypercapitalism
Rethinking agency in an AI-driven world – as the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference is trying to do – the critic Krystian Woznicki interviews social thinker Max Haiven about seminal notions of agency under AI-driven financialization. Krystian Woznicki: As you repeatedly point
The Politics of AI-driven Financialization (Interview with Max Haiven)
Folgt man der Theorie über die technischen Objekte, wie sie der französische Theoretiker Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012) entwickelt hat, und daran anschließend den Aussagen Frédéric Neyrats im Sammelband Die technologische Bedingung (Hörl 2011), so gilt es für die heutigen hyper-technisierten
Das transklassisch Maschinelle (G. Anders, H.D. Bahr, F. Neyrat, G. Simondon)
Reconstructing the Earth Power is at the core of the geo-constructivist conception of the world. The power of humanity as a kind to reduce its status of a species to its smallest part; a power that takes place on a
Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life
Es war eine der Intentionen von Leibniz, zu zeigen, dass die Welt aus elementaren Automaten gebaut ist, die er »Monaden« nannte. Monaden, die sich jeweils aus Aggregaten zusammensetzen und komplexe Automaten bilden, lassen sich bei Leibniz immer weiter bis ins
Zelluläre Automaten und Maschine 4.0
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is
Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism. Rhythm, not speed was the term. As we wrote: »If Rhythm is
Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music
On first reading Johnathan Crary’s new book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep I wondered if I’d shifted into some dark psychopathic journey into the heart of darkness where citizens have become machines, augmented cyborgs in a sleepless universe of
24/7: Sleepless Soldiers and the Psychopathy of Civilization
….The problem is that the energy system and the technology it powers is not at all modular; it is not possible to swap out dirty energy and swap in clean energy, even if all political obstacles were removed and some
The Belly of the Revolution: Agriculture, Energy, and the Future of Communism
The development of the means of labour into machinery is not an accidental moment of capital, but is rather the historical reshaping of the traditional, inherited means of labour into a form adequate to capital. The accumulation of knowledge and