Konspiration und Rauschen
Als 2010 “Der kommende Aufstand” auf deutsch erschien, fanden sich schnell Rezensionen in den einschlägigen linken Publikationen, die das Werk als rechts, antiemanzipatorisch, verschwörungstheoretisch...
View ArticleNeorational Madness: Reza Negarestani and the New Society of Mind
“This book argues, from a functionalist perspective, that mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which itself is primarily and...
View ArticleDie Implosion des systems
Baudrillard bindet die Instabilität des Systems an die Implosion, womit er andeutet, dass das System in sich kollabiert (und nicht durch einen nuklearen Krieg etwa explodiert). Es befindet sich in...
View ArticleNo Shortage of Profit:Technological Change, Chip ‘Shortages’, and Capital...
Semiconductor technology and semiconductor firms do not exist in a vacuum – they are enmeshed in complex ways with social forces outside the control of any dominant group. The interests of the...
View ArticleThe implosion of the system
Baudrillard ties the instability of the system to the implosion, by which he implies that the system collapses in itself (and does not explode by a nuclear war, for example). It is in involution, that...
View ArticleVon der Inflation zur Revolte
Den italienische Originalartikel vom 28.6.2022 findet Ihr hier. taken from Sunzi Bingfa: https://sunzibingfa.noblogs.org/post/2022/08/22/von-der-inflation-zur-revolte/#more-2502 Während der...
View ArticleEuropas Energiebedürfnisse: Grüner Kolonialismus und Green Grabbing in...
Europas Staatschefs nutzen die Klimakrise als Gelegenheit, ihren kolonialen Einfluss auf Afrika auszuweiten. Unter dem Vorwand, dass “wir alle” gegen einen “gemeinsamen Feind” kämpfen, fördern sie...
View ArticleSpeculative Posthumanism: The Inhuman Core of Speculative Non-Metaphysics
In ancient times religion was a form of binding, obligation, and bond between the divine and human. After the Enlightenment this binding was severed, and irreligion cut the bonds or knots that held...
View ArticleSimulation von Sozialpolitik als Test zur Regulation ökonomischer Verwahrlosung
Der Sozialpolitik geht es wie dem Politischen selbst. Man verabreicht sie den Massen in homöopathischen Dosen, verdünnt sie so weit, dass sie im Verhältnis zur Gesamtlösung verschwindend gering wird,...
View ArticleThe Necrophilic World: Death-Drive, Capitalism, and our Posthuman Future
‘In a system that orders you to live and to capitalize life, the death drive is the only alternative.’ —Jean Baudrillard ‘The zeroing of death amounts to the death of death. It is for this reason that...
View ArticlePower, Profit & Prometheanism, Part I
No civilization has been more Promethean than capitalism in its aspirations. Named after the Greek Titan who gave fire to humankind, Prometheanism is understood as a kind of environmental—but not...
View ArticleDestituent power as living communism
Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack Spencer Beswick (The Institute for Anarchist Studies, 29/07/2022) May Day, 1987: thousands of black-clad Autonomen (“those who are...
View ArticleStereo: Ultrablack of Music und Baudrillard
Wo beginnt der Stereoeffekt, der Punkt, an dem die Hi-Fi-Anlage so unbrauchbar raffiniert wird, dass die Musik in der Besessenheit von ihrer Wiedergabetreue verloren geht? Wo ist der Punkt, an dem das...
View Article25 Theses on TIME (of Capital)
1) Economic quantities are changeable in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from...
View ArticleBataille’s Revenge
In truth, Bataille seems to me far less an intellectual predicament than a sexual and religious one, transecting the lethargic suicide upon which we are all embarked. To accept his writings is an...
View ArticleThe hyperreality of work
Above, I argued that until the 1970s, social mediation through labor was characterized by an interdependence of capital and labor. This was based on the fact that capital, in its urge to exploit, was...
View ArticleDas Einkaufszentrum als Sarkophag der ware
Warum heute noch Baudrillard? Sicherlich sind heute viele der poststrukturalistischen Science-Fiction-Texte „dated“, und da machen manche von Baudrillard, abgesehen von der Zweifelhaftigkeit seiner...
View ArticleDystopia and the Surveillance State
“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.”― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism “Throughout history,...
View ArticleThe working class and the middle classes: Allies or foes?
Concluding my whole analysis, and leaving aside possible isolated cases or exceptions, I may say that while a class alliance between the working class and the majority of the new petty bourgeoisie...
View ArticleSimulation of social policy as a test for the regulation of economic neglect
Social policy is like politics itself. It is administered to the masses in homeopathic doses, diluted to such an extent that it becomes vanishingly small in relation to the total solution, until it...
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