One should by no means identify the abstract time of capital with a linear and homogeneous order of time, in which, in a continuous flow of time running ahead on the time stream, each time stage simultaneously excludes the other […]
The Time Modalities of Capital and Postone’s Misinterpretation
1) Economic quantities can also be changed in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from current barter exchanges and thus as a monetary
The rhythms of life, the ups and downs of nature and everyday life must disappear in this world; for the weakness and inadequacy of human time, its diffuse and intertwined structures”, writes Jonathan Cray, “there is no place left in
transcript of a talk for the Radical Philosophy Association’s Fall conference ] I would like to begin with a passage from Giorgio Agamben’s 1978 essay, ‘Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum,’ since it will serve to
This text with images was originally presented at the Historical Materialism New York conference in May of 2011. Given the context, the text does not go into the sort of detail the matter really requires. A longer version is likely
For Paul Virilio the last remaining defense against the crumbling world economy is to abandon the ship, lift our heads to the sky and join in the exurbanist future of the Ultracity. In that short book The Futurism of the
Paul Virilio: The Propaganda of a Growing Disaster
Are the temporal dimensions of money, debt and finance important? How and why should social scientists engage with these questions? These are the key lines of inquiry that drive my new book The Time of Money. For many social scientists
Speculative Finance and the Transformation of the Social
Man sollte die abstrakte Zeit des Kapitals auf gar keinen Fall mit einer linearen und homogenen Zeitordnung identifizieren, bei der in einem kontinuierlichen Fluss einer auf dem Zeitstrahl voranlaufenden Zeit zugleich jede Zeitstufedie andere ausschließt (Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft), ergo mit einer linearen
Die Zeitmodalitäten des Kapitals und Postones Fehlinterpretation
Transkription eines Vortrags der im Oktober 2015 bei der ‘retrospektive’ [event] des “institut de destabilisation” im MultiVersum (Offenbach) gehalten wurde. Sowohl Skript als auch die Aufnahme waren zwischenzeitlich verloren und sind nun wieder aufgetaucht: „Womöglich gilt es darzulegen, dass die
Sidenotes to Hauntology // Randnotizen zur Hantologie
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-
To continue from our conclusions regarding the question of what it would mean to love as a communist, we begin from the idea that abolition is what necessary binds communism as real movement to problems encountered in the life of
