Name the System! Anthropocenes & the Capitalocene Alternative
The Anthropocene has become the most important – and also the most dangerous — environmentalist concept of our times. It is dangerous not because it gets planetary crisis so wrong, but because it...
View ArticleInterview with Radio Študent, Ljubljana, Slovenia- Otitis Media
Questions - Andrej Tomažin Answers - Achim Szepanski 1. In the nineties, you were running the label Mille Plateaux and before that – in the eighties - you were a part of noise/post-punk collective PD...
View ArticleSaal 6 – 30
»Direkt hinter der ersten Startreihe von zwölf Läufern trippeln sechzehn junge Studenten aus China, die zusammen vier aus einem quadratischen, mit goldenem Stuck verzierten Holzgestell herausragende...
View ArticleThe Myth of the ‘Human Enterprise’: The Anthropos and Capitalogenic Change
Humans are distinctive. No one is arguing the point. But how do we think through that distinctiveness? How do our conceptualizations lead us to highlight some relations over others, and how do those...
View ArticleBrometheanism
In recent months I've remained quiet about the speculative turn, mostly because I'm reticent to rekindle the “Internet war” that broke out a couple of years ago mostly on blogs but also in various...
View ArticleSlime ethics: Lovecraft and becoming-alien
In recent years H.P. Lovecraft gathered a lot of interest from modern philosophers, most visibly in the writings of Graham Harman and other speculative realists like Reza Negarestani or Eugene...
View ArticleTiqqun on speed and strategy
People have often insisted — T.E. Lawrence is no exception — on the kinetic dimensions of politics and war as a strategic counterpoint to a quantitative concept of relations of force. That’s the...
View ArticleDer Quantifizierungs-Totalitarismus (als die dem finanziellen Kapital...
Quantifizierungsdispositiv Die dem finanziellen Kapital adäquate Regierungsform ist der Quantifizierungs-Totalitarismus. " Steffen Mau schreibt in seinem neuen Buch „Das Metrische Wir“ (dem wir hier in...
View ArticlePole Position – 1
»Das Fantasma, der Sex erfordere das Geld und das Geld ziehe den Sex nach sich, vermittelt Mansfeld, einem Fondsmanager, die semantische Spannung eines Siegers, der von dem lebt, was ihm am besten...
View ArticleBeyond Tactics and Strategy: Frankfurt´s New ECB and the Art of Skating
Stefan Hölscher, Ph.D. Beyond Tactics and Strategy: Frankfurt´s New ECB and the Art of Skating Contribution to a round-table discussion Performance Studies International (psi) 2017: Overflow,...
View ArticleFrom a Philosophically Clean-Shaven Marx to a Philosophically Decolonized...
[This is a really rough outline/introductory sketch for the third chapter of my dissertation, which takes up the relationship between the persisting residual eurocentrism in specific interpretations of...
View ArticleAre we all Corbynistas now?
this article is taken from: The Word From Struggle Street Words Are Wind And elections remain, as they did in Mai 68, ‘a trap for fools’ – that is when we are actually out on the streets in great...
View ArticleDie globalen Wertschöpfungsketten und das globale Proletariat
Die Automation, deren Anwendung heute ohne den umfassenden Einsatz von Informationstechnologien allerdings nicht möglich wäre, ist seit den 1980er Jahren eine wesentliche technologische Komponente...
View ArticleG20 – Welcome to Hell
International anti-capitalist demonstration against G20 summit: G20 Welcome to hell Thursday, 6 July 2017 4 p.m., St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hamburg read here video here about G 20 about imperialism today...
View ArticleNON: An unsere Genossen. erste Notiz / To our comrades. first draft
english translation will follow Zu Marxens Zeiten erwuchs das proletarische Widerstandspotenzial nicht in erster Linie, wie sich das manche Marxisten gerne wünschen, aus dem Kampf gegen die Warenform,...
View ArticleHandbuch des Stadtguerillero
Carlos Marighela Handbuch des Stadtguerillero Es ist nicht möglich, alle Situationen vorauszusehen; trotzdem darf es nicht vorkommen, daß der Stadtguerillero nicht weiß, was zu tun ist, nur weil ihm...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Imperialism
Saudi Arabia has been a major player in Middle East politics. It backed the 2013 overthrow of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, since the example of an elected government of a major country next door...
View ArticleThe Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
The old idea that man invented tools is … a misleading half-truth; it would be more accurate to say that tools invented man. —Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future Long ago in that pre-history of...
View ArticleWHAT MAKES THE US PROFIT RATE FALL ?
Since world war II there have been two quite distinct phases of world growth. In about 1965, a long slowdown set in which has still not ended. Robert Brenner (2002, 2003) has re-ignited the debate...
View ArticleMaria Mies, Silvia Federici, and Biopower
In the 1970s, activists and intellectuals developed new modes of inquiry for understanding the administration, control, and punishment of human bodies, and the constitutive effects that these...
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