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On Direct Democracy

Taken from ediciones-ineditos [Originally published on the blog of Léon de Mattis, April 26th, 2017 in French. What follows is a translation into English by ediciones inéditos which has been reviewed...

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Fundamentals of Algorithmic Markets: Liquidity, Contingency, and the...

    Since the mid-2000s, financial markets have been subjected to an unprecedented critical scrutiny, particularly in light of ‘black swan events’ such as the supposedly unpredictable Global Financial...

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Let Death Come Quickly

From a series of tweets – A Dark Pessimist vs. an ultra-Optimist (A Daily Rant – BEWARE!): We worry over Trump while the planet burns… is this not madness? Humanity is a transitional thing… who wants...

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Pole Position – 3

Das Büro sagt ’ja!’ und schlägt tot Wenn man nicht einschläft, kann man auch nicht aufwachen, das hatte Snaffu gestern Nacht allen Ernstes mit erhobenen Kopf, der aus einem sweetshirtartigen...

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Deutschland und der kommende Staatsfaschismus

In einem FB Beitrag von gestern heißt es: "Das Problem mit dem Faschismus besteht nicht einfach nur im "völkischen Nationalismus" (das natürlich auch, es ist die ideologische Rahmung), sondern in der...

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Der Riot als Teil der globalen Zirkulationskämpfe (2)

In einem ökonomistisch verkürzten Sinn wird der Riot als ein spontaner Protest gegen die Erhöhung der Lebensmittelpreise interpretiert - man denke an die Aktionen gegen den IWF, der die Bedingungen für...

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What is communisation?

One thing is now certain: in the capitalist world, our situation can only get worse. All that was previously taken for granted in the form of “social benefits” has been, once again, put into question....

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“Solidarity with the Police” – Debunking Excuses for State Violence in...

When the government concentrates 20,000 police in a city to violently suppress protest and people respond by defending themselves, it takes a real fascist to argue that the problem is “left extremism.”...

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Riots und Nachbarschaftsorganisierung

Als Kulisse dieser Überlegungen lodern noch die Barrikaden im Hamburger Schanzenviertel: Duft der Freiheit, rauschhafte Grenzüberschreitung, polizeilicher Kontrollverlust. Augenblicke, im Aufbegehren...

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The First Words of Common Sense: A Closer Look at Blanquism

I originally wrote this essay on Blanquism in 2014 while part of a communist organization. While there are parts of it that I would rewrite now, in general, I think it holds up pretty well as a...

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Der heutige Mensch hat die Vitalität eines Regenwurms

Adorno schreibt den Kunstwerken eine Vitalität, ja sogar Subjektivität zu, insofern es als ein sich entfaltendes Subjekt der Erfahrung fungiert und sich autopoetisch zu entfalten hat. Diese...

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NONCONCEPTUAL NEGATIVITY: ADORNO+LIFE+DELEUZE

NEGATION OF NEGATION vs AFFIRMATION In Difference and Repetitioni, particularly in sections written on negativity, Deleuze, discussing the distinction between "being and non-being" and "being and...

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Kommunisierung und Wertformtheorie

"Die Wertform des Arbeitsprodukts ist die abstrakteste, aber auch allgemeinste Form der bürgerlichen Produktionsweise, die hierdurch als eine besondere Art gesellschaftlicher Produktion und damit...

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Contemporary schools of thought and the problem of Labour Algorithms

Despite the fall of actually-existing socialism, the idea of computerized economic planning continued to be developed by small groups of theorists, who have advanced its conceptual scope further than...

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Bemerkungen zu Stieglers „Automatic Society. The Future of Work“ (1)

Wir werden systematisch von Kapitel zu Kapitel die Gedankengänge Stieglers verfolgen, um dann zu einer Einschätzung und Kritik zu kommen. Beginnen wir mit dem durchaus anfechtbaren Begriff des...

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A Short Introduction to the Politics of Cruelty

Hostis is a negation. It emerges devoid of ethics, lacking any sense of democracy, and without a care for pre-figuring anything. Fed up with the search for a social solution to the present crisis, it...

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Automatic Society 1: The Future of Work – Introduction

The following is the introduction to the first volume of Bernard Stiegler’s most recent work, La Société automatique, 1. L’Avenir du travail, published by Fayard in 2015. The second volume, subtitled...

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Production of the Schizoid, End of Capitalism and Laruelle’s Radical...

These are eclectics of the production, eclectics of the repetition, eclectics of the difference, where the fecundity of the novelty would either spring forth, or be weeded out. There is...

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Bemerkungen zu Stieglers „Automatic Society. The Future of Work“ (2)

Bei diesem zweiten Kapitel, das mit »The Industry of Traces and Automatized Artificial Crowds« überschrieben ist, handelt es um nichts nichts weniger als um eine Aktualisierung und Umschrift des...

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Malignant Acceleration in Tech-Finance. Some Further Rumination on Regulations.

Regardless of the positive effects of HFT that offers, such as reduced spreads, higher liquidity, and faster price discovery, its negative side is mostly what has caught people’s attention. Several...

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