Clik here to view.
Inflation is always and everywhere a redistributional phenomenon
Inflation is the average rate of change of individual money prices. In this narrow sense, Milton Friedman’s claim that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon is correct. But...
View ArticleDark Lucretius: The Birth of Death
Instead, Lucretius offers a profoundly indeterminate ending to the poem and the end of the world in which no static gods live in between worlds. For Lucretius, the gods are just ideas in our minds....
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze
Corry Shores and Meli̇ke Başak Yalçın 0 Introduction Shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze discovered a new kind of music: glitch, in particular, Oval’s Systemisch. [Achim] Szepanski contacted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Difference and Repetition: Introduction, Repetition and Difference
Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is notoriously difficult. It is arguably the most difficult of Deleuze’s writings (though I’d put my money on The Fold). In this post I’ve attempted to provide an...
View ArticleZemmour as a morbid symptom
Benefiting from huge media coverage, the far right and a mainstream right drifting towards it now seem to have a new champion for the presidential election next spring in the person of Éric Zemmour....
View ArticleClik here to view.
AN ESSAY ON DESONANCE[i]
0. GOBEKLI TEPE No matter if the scientists, researchers, historians, anthropologists seem to have agreed upon that the ruins in Gobekli Tepe should be considered as a clear proof of a primordial and...
View ArticleDas Covid Versagen der Linken
Während der verschiedenen Phasen der globalen Pandemie haben sich die Präferenzen der Menschen in Bezug auf epidemiologische Strategien eng mit ihrer politischen Orientierung überschnitten. Seit...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Ontology of Motion for a Moving World
We live in an age of geological movement. We are accustomed to treating the earth as a stable or static place that we live and move on but today this“stable” ground is becoming increasingly unstable....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Capitalist Degree of Immortality
mmortality This note offers some speculative ideas worth considering. One of the key features of all hierarchical civilizations is their rulers’ fear of death. This fear was famously narrated in the...
View ArticleBon anniversaire! Gilets Jaunes
Mitte November 2018 betraten die Gilets Jaunes die geschichtliche Bühne, am 17. November ereignete sich l’Acte 1 (dem Wochenende für Wochenende unzählige weitere folgen sollten, nur in der Hochphase...
View ArticleEU: “We will use the Health Pass also after the Pandemic”
he RCIT has warned from the very beginning in spring 2020 that the COVID policy is not designed to serve the interests of public health. It is rather used as a pretext for dramatically expanding the...
View ArticleThe 1-2-3 toolbox of mainstream economics:Promising everything, delivering...
,AbstractWe write this essay for both lay readers and scientists, though mainstream economists arewelcome to enjoy it too. Our subject is the basic toolbox of mainstream economics. The mostimportant...
View ArticleEssential Struggles: Pandemic Fronts.
Edited by the feminist network Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational (EAST) and the Transnational Social Strike (TSS) platform The Covid-19 pandemic revealed, more than anything, the deep...
View ArticleInternational Solidarity Call for Community of Squatted Prosfygika
Hello comrades, We address this call to collectives and individuals from all around the world to join the combative defense of PROSFYGIKA against the imminent repression. The attempted evacuation of...
View ArticleOpiates of the Environmentalists? Anthropocene Illusions, Planetary...
Effective ideologies blur the lines between empirical realities and political interpretation. Some members of the human species are indeed driving planetary life into the planetary inferno. This...
View ArticleExcerpt from Chapter One of Frank Engster’s Book: Das Geld als Maß, Mittel...
The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its...
View ArticleSHOEDRIFT / SIFIR on Mille Plateaux
I always had a deep enthusiasm for the bands like My Bloody Valentine, Seefeel, Slowdive, Lush, you name it … bands defined in many different ways the genre known as SHOEGAZE. What gravitated me...
View ArticleSteve Keen’s The New Economics: A Manifesto
Steve Keen’s book, The New Economics: A Manifesto (2021), offers a new path for economics, and for good reason. In his view, neoclassicism, the paradigm that rules modern-day economics, has become a...
View ArticleRacism and Fascism
… Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another,...
View ArticleCapitalizing a future unsustainable: Finance, energy and the fate of market...
Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy-demanding built environments and growth imperatives of these...
View Article