Before the financial crises, the normal political situation was that there was capitalism on the one hand and a tiny but unshakeable radical left that wanted to abolish it on the other. That was also my organisation, by the way. […]
The author team Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff has presented with Inhuman Power a meritorious book on AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) from a Marxist perspective. The authors define AI as the ability to make reasonable generalizations based on limited data in a
Marxism and Artificial Intelligence
King, C. W. (2020). The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy. Springer Nature. If you are interested in the megatrends of the 21st century, then Carey King’s new book The Economic Superorganism should be on your reading list.
A Review of Carey King’s ‘The Economic Superorganism’
In principle, fictitious capital always arises when a money owner leaves his money to another person and in return receives a title of ownership (bond, share, etc.) representing the claim to this money and its increase (e.g. in the form
There is a major difference between what is now called ‘accelerationism’ and its utopian futurist influences from the early 20th century: whether human reason is powerful enough to not only overcome the conditions of capitalism but ultimately the biological limits
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
What follows is a long essay by the French communization theorist, Gilles Dauvé. It is a long read, a read which varies in content and tone but a text which masterfully summarizes the communist critique of work. The original
A slightly modified chapter 3 of the book From Crisis to Communization, published in 2017 by Editions Entremonde. False Yards In 1997, in the Sarthe, about twenty workers build a section of motorway under the direction of an engineer