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 up the computer and asked him to test the machine ...
acceleration, communism, cybernetics, non-cybernetics, technology, Tiqqun
Im Gegensatz zu allem, was wir gehört haben, ist das Mysterium nicht, dass wir uns erheben, sondern dass wir es vorher nicht getan haben. Die Anomalie liegt nicht in dem, was wir jetzt tun, sondern in dem, was wir bisher ertragen haben. Wer kann leugnen, dass das System in allen ...
Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classesthe exploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers between which, in each individual case, it would be possible to differentiate. The front line no longer cuts through the middle of society; it now runs through each ...
Antiterrorism, contrary to what the term would suggest, is not a means to fight against terrorism, it is the method by which the political enemy is positively produced as a terrorist. It is a matter, by a luxury of provocation, infiltration, surveillance, intimidation and propaganda, by a whole science of ...
Kaum eine von der Polizei vorzeitig beendete Demonstration kommt ohne die üblichen begrifflichen Zerlegungen in ‚friedliche Demonstranten‘ und ‚gewaltbereite Störer/Chaoten/Extremisten/usf.‘ aus. Die polizeiliche Gewalt wird durch das Vorhandensein so identifizierter Personen und das staatliche Gewaltmonopol gerechtfertigt auch dann, wenn die polizeiliche Gewalt diese überhaupt erst hervorbringt. Hier kommt der Polizei ...
The term ‘communization’ has recently become something of a buzzword. A number of factors have contributed to this, the most prominent being the coming into fashion of various texts. Of these, The Coming Insurrection – associated with the French journal Tiqqun, and the ‘Tarnac 9’ who gained the doubtful prestige ...
commons, Communization, Invisible Committee, revolution, Tiqqun
What we have undertaken must not be confused with anything else and cannot be limited to the expression of certain ideas or even less to what is rightly considered art. It is necessary to produce and to eat: many things are necessary that are still nothing, and so it is ...
An interview with Julien Coupat and Mathieu Burnel
Le Monde | April 20, 2017. Translated by Ill Will Editions.
Editor’s note: The trial of Julien Coupat and Mathieu Burnel, known as the “Tarnac affair”, has dragged-on for over eight years now. On the 10th of January, the Court of Appeals ...
THE PROBLEM with the social is not that it fails at its intended goals. There is no use in disputing the advances in education, science, or medicine brought
