What is COVID Capitalism?
The term „COVID capitalism“ designates the ways capitalism and the novel coronavirus alter and amplify one another. In this paper, I look at four major features that characterize this relationship so...
View ArticleThe Human Security Machine: Kant’s Safety Net and the Escape Velocity of the...
“…the most important philosopher of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, seems to have constructed his grand philosophical design, an architecture of concepts and arguments, to sustain and safeguard the...
View ArticleLoris Cericola – Metaphysical Graffiti
The work is best described as an obscure, dadaist sound collage, realized entirely by experimenting with an array of tape cut-ups and analog sound manipulation techniques. A set of live improvisations...
View ArticleAgainst escapist entertainment
In my album “star of the west” I documented the events that transpired in the USA between November 2020 and January 2021. The original project creation and development was funded by a Stipend from...
View ArticlePhilosophien der Erschöpfung. Entfremdung und Vitalismus nach Deleuze
1. Eine Annäherung Die Erschöpfung, so muss man wahrscheinlich beginnen, ist kein ausgezeichneter philosophischer Affekt, enthält die Philosophie doch ein minimales vitalistisches Versprechen. Sie,...
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The Ritual of Capitalization
There’s something mysterious about finance. The symbols are arcane. The math is complex. The practitioners are impressively educated. And the stakes are high. All of this gives finance the veneer of...
View ArticleThe Limits of Capitalized Power/ A 2020 U.S. Update
Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a modeof power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized power and researched how capitalists...
View ArticleThe New Image of Thought As Fusion of the Quantum and Philosophy
The New Image of Thought As Fusion of the Quantum and PhilosophyFrançois LaruelleFrom Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cérf, 2018), p.152-156; p.157-161.PDF 1. As An Undulatory AspectThe...
View ArticleTo Live and Think Like Pigs
The title of the article was borrowed from Gilles Châtelet’s book „To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies“. Regarding this friendly takeover, think of...
View ArticleOur Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and...
As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over...
View ArticleSex refashioned
…fashion has the fabulous character of the more beautiful than beautiful: fascinating. The seduction it exerts is independent of all value judgment… The astonishing privilege accorded to fashion is...
View ArticleThe Specters of Stagflation
Growth forecasts are gloomy for the global economy. The Ifo Institute lowered its forecast for the FRG for this year from 3.3 to 2.5 per cent, while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered...
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Ultra-blackness in Music. A Non-Mixology
What is Rhythm? What is Rhythm? Rhythm is a temporally extended pattern in which information-transmitting processes take place. It can be described by the following parameters: spatial (distance,...
View ArticlePAUSE FOR THOUGHT: MONEY WITHOUT VALUE IN A RAPIDLY DISINTEGRATING WORLD
After the folding of the last period of mass labour mobilisation – the post-war Fordist boom – capitalism entered its terminal crisis, where fictitious money is increasingly dissociated from...
View ArticleEcuador: General Strike
We rose up again. This time, we have more experience, but not enough strength to achieve our objectives. We are resisting and defending ourselves from police and state violence, one day at a time....
View ArticleFor Baudrillard: The Model and The Hyper-Body of Signs
Restore the right of beauty to its hyper-existence by all means of artificiality. We really do live after the end. Baudrillard’s model has also passed away (The Left has never been interested in it)....
View ArticleDie hyperreale Welt des Castings
Nur eine kann das ganz große Los ziehen, nur einer ist prominent, und haben selbst mathematisch alle gleiche Aussicht, so ist sie doch für jeden einzelnen so minimal, dass er sich am besten gleich...
View ArticleKassel / Szenen einer (Her)(Ab)Setzung*
Für das Beleidigende braucht es : a/ den Beleidiger, im Falle und als Ausgangspunkt ein „art collective“ namens Taring Padi, das seine „mission“ u.a. in der Wiederbelebung der Volkskultur sieht und...
View ArticleCovid 19 and the Global Political Economy: Crises in the 21st Century
Moreover, this chapter argues that while MMT has its virtues, it too misses two very important aspects of capitalism: (1) why there is a constant aggregate demand problem in a capitalist economy and;...
View ArticleMMT, THE PANDEMIC, AND THE FISCAL DEFICIT FRIGHT
I contend that current discussions on what the pandemic has taught us about monetary and fiscal policy are myopic. It is the purpose of this chapter to broaden the political economy horizon so that we...
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