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Profit Warning: There Will be Blood
We have just updated the charts in our 2014 RWER paper ‘Still About Oil?’, and the picture they portray reads like a capitalist call for arms. Beginning in the late 1980s, we suggested that, since the...
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Ghost Town
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Maxwell Q. Klinger Die ersten etwas wärmeren Nächte in Kreuzberg, kurz vor Beginn der Ausgangssperre. Die Gehwege sind ausgestorben, aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto dröhnen...
View ArticleIgnorance is Strength
Colin Harrison writes about power in present-day capitalism. His thrillers intersect and fuse finance, crime and ruthless violence. They are technically precise, written with panache and make you...
View ArticleOn the oil workers strike in Iran – A letter from comrades
Comrades sent us following observations on the recent oil workers strike in Iran. For further reading on recent struggles in the region we recommend this article on the wider learning processes of the...
View ArticlePOST COVID RIOT PRIME MANIFEST (PART III)
Zwanzig notwendige Anmerkungen zu den gegenwärtigen Konfliktualitäten und Perspektiven. Teil 3: Anmerkungen 11-15 Elf: Wenn wir also davon ausgehen, das der Kampf, der uns bevorsteht, grundsätzlich in...
View ArticleFormalism of materialist reason
Marx’s study of the species being of humanity institutes itself as a science thatdeals with value production and the relation of value to material reality. Thisis obviously a metaphysical question,...
View ArticleStruggles in Iran – Another response
Iman Ganji with Jose Rosales How do you see the relation between this strike and the protests in 2019, regarding the petrol prices? How do you see the relation between this strike and the wider...
View Article“I CANNOT TELL YOU WHY YOU MUST FIGHT, I CAN ONLY TELL YOU HOW I SOLVE...
Jose Rosales (JR): We’d like to begin with something you mentioned in another interview regarding the status of 68 in Germany since it is a moving anecdote regarding the relationship between the...
View ArticleThe Only Way Out Is Always Through The Police: A History Of The Rise And Fall...
Originally published by Its Going Down. Written by No Authors nor Masters. December 2020 There is a cop inside our heads, society is a power plant that runs on unwept tears, a new world is in our...
View ArticleWhen something ceases not to write itself
I’m returning to Kittler more and more, and in fact trying to write about him… I hit on a treasure trove of material that I’ll say more about in future. But for the moment I wanted to post a few...
View ArticleMille Plateaux – Der Zustand des Ungeformten
Wir haben unser Konzept kürzlich als ultrablack, als non-frequency-music oder einfach als non-music bezeichnet. In der Standard-Musik wird eine punktierte Produktionszeit in den Körper der Musik...
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Derrida’s Macintosh
I’ve been finishing an essay for a friend about Friedrich Kittler and the “media a priori” of philosophy. It’s an idea I have had on the back burner for several years. Ever since Wolfgang Ernst told...
View ArticleCapitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives,...
Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class, by D. Bryan and M. Rafferty, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan 2006. $ 85; pp. viii, 236 The book is a vitally...
View ArticleWarum das Proletariat in Kolumbien kämpft
In den letzten Wochen hat sich die kolumbianische Arbeiterklasse entschlossen den neuen Angriffen der Bourgeoisie entgegengestellt, die sich zuletzt in einer Steuerreform der Regierung...
View ArticleDie “ökologische Transformation” zwischen dem Kommando des Kapitals, der...
Eine Übersetzung von Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ aus Italien, die auf Effimera veröffentlicht wurde. Der „ökologische Übergang“ hat plötzlich eine nie dagewesene Zentralität innerhalb der italienischen...
View ArticleFrom the commodity to the spectacle: Debord’s Marx
Published a century after Marx’s Capital, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was described upon its release as ‘the Capital of the new generation’ (Le Nouvel Observateur). However, the book’s...
View ArticleThought in Motion – Lucretius`materialist practice
Lucretius was a materialist … read here
View ArticleTowards a Treatise of Speculative Music
Towards a Treatise of Speculative Music[1]François LaruelleIn Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2018), p.593-607. During my thesis defense, one juror, Clémence Ramnoux...
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Schönheit vermag also derart zu überwältigen, daß Menschen erschüttert ihre Fassung und dieFraglosigkeit ihres Daseins verlieren: Dinge, Vorgänge und Geschehnisse selbst können – ineinem starken Sinne...
View ArticleThe Capital As Power Approach
An Invited-then-Rejected Interview with Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan The CasP approach is radically different from conventional political economy. In the conventional view, mainstream as well...
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