Gilets Jaunes or where are we four years later
On November 17, 2018, a new kind of movement exploded in the face of many observers and took the trade unions and political parties, who were convinced they had a monopoly on protest, by surprise: the...
View ArticleGlobal Debt and Parallel Universe
An electronic billboard in Times Square displays the American public debt, an astronomic figure of some thousands of billions of dollars which increases at a rate of $20,000 a second. Another...
View ArticleThe End of Abstraction? The Triumph ofAbstraction? A Prospective Dilemma
The crisis we are witnessing in the wake of the pandemic and the depression that may follow is not the result of an accounting imbalance. It is the outcome of a physical and nervous collapse of...
View ArticleEvin Prison Riot
his is the translation of a report first published by our sister organization Manjanigh with some additional information on the history and physical structure of the Evin prison for English readers...
View ArticleAgre > Zuboff
When Shoshana Zuboff published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism four years ago, I remember feeling skeptical and slightly guarded. You’re telling me the Harvard Business School hates Facebook now...
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Tomorrow Was Shahrivar 1401: Notes on the Iranian Uprisings
Iman Ganji and Jose Rosales . On September 13, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini,1 a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested and detained by the Iranian “morality police”2 while visiting Tehran with her...
View ArticleAgre – Zuboff
When Shoshana Zuboff published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism four years ago, I remember feeling skeptical and slightly guarded. You’re telling me the Harvard Business School hates Facebook now...
View ArticleBaudrillard’s Importance for the Future
My argument is that Baudrillard continuously said that “everything is simulation (or virtual)” rather than saying that “there is more and more simulation (or virtuality)” because the diagnosis of...
View ArticleProlegomena to Planetary Cybernetics
As Danowski and Viveiros de Castro show in their argument, Deleuze’s concept of minor technologies, i.e., the different exercise of techniques (or “techopoetics”), paves a possible way toward...
View ArticleIs Politics Still Possible Today?
The article presents an analysis of the present conjuncture and demonstrates how its current warmongering is a symptom of the current, ongoing, fundamental lack of political alternatives. It indicates...
View ArticlePolitik ist Intervention
Abstract: Die alte Welt will nicht abtreten und eine neue Welt pocht zunehmend auf ihr Recht. Man kann sagen, dass letztere bereits Chancen hatte, in die Geschichte einzutreten und ihre sozialen...
View ArticleImperialism, With and Without Cheap Nature: Climate Crises, World Wars & the...
The Ukraine War reflects and reinforces the exhaustion of Cheap Natures. Earlier Thirty Years Wars (1618-48, 1792-1815, 1914-45) were entwined with successive developmental crises of Cheap Nature...
View ArticleVom Potemkinschen Dorf zum Potemkinschen Reich: Die Gespenster des...
Die vom Putin-Regime vorangetriebene imperiale Strategie der territorialen Expansion und der Kolonisierung von Ressourcen wird wahrscheinlich den Niedergang und die Erosion Russlands beschleunigen,...
View ArticleRigide Corona-Politik: „Querdenker“-Proteste in China?
Die Demonstrationen sind für einen Großteil der Medien in Deutschland ein Kampf für Demokratie und Freiheit. Aber auch die Anhänger einer strikten Corona-Politik müssten sich Fragen stellen. „Zero...
View ArticleDie Gründung und Stabilisierung der Weltgeschichte durch den...
Wir schlagen als Fundament des Stadiums der Weltgeschichte eine globale Interpretation der marxistischen Architektonik vor, nicht einen Beitrag zu seinem Denken, wie es bereits formuliert und erprobt...
View ArticleZukünftige Kausalität und Messianität: Ein zukunftsorientierter Gedanke
Futural Causality and Messianity: A Future-Oriented ThoughtFrançois LaruelleIn Les philosophes et le futur, ed. Jean-Noël Missa and Laurence Perbal (Paris: Vrin, 2012), 241-253 Ich stelle eine Reihe...
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From Ürümchi to Shanghai: Demands from Chinese and Hong Kong Socialists
A letter on strategy and solidarity with Uyghur struggle By Chinese and Hong Kong socialists on November 28, 2022 taken from lausancollective On Thursday, 24 November, 2022, a fire broke out in a...
View ArticleAuflösung der Sittenpolizei – Anfang vom Ende des Mullah-Regimes im Iran?
ie Reformvorschläge könnten Taktik sein, um die Bewegung zu spalten. Sie könnten sie aber auch anfeuern. Warum bleibt die linke Solidarität aus Deutschland bisher so verhalten? Die besonders...
View ArticleGilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Cosmic Art
“If there is a modern age, it is, of course, the age of the cosmic.” (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus) Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) are among the few...
View ArticleAfter Extractivism: Tackling the Ecological-Economic Complex, Green...
How can we build our future on the legacies and claims of those who, yesterday as today, have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex? And how can we make such...
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