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Facebook’s Advertising Machine
When Mark Zuckerberg is interviewed, the founder of Facebook can barely put a sentence together without using the word ‘connect’. This looks like a case of Tourette’s syndrome that spouts business buzz...
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Postdemokratie, Neoliberalismus und ziviler Ungehorsam
Markus Metz / Georg Seeßlen: Bürger erhebt Euch! – Postdemokratie, Neoliberalismus und ziviler Ungehorsam Dass sich im Übergang von parlamentarischer Demokratie zur medialisierten Postdemokratie und...
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The Scourge of Ratings Agencies
This is from the archives written over two days in August and September this year and meant as part of the weekly digest for PFPAC (FB). Some days back, a friend, asked a question on Ratings Agencies...
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Moishe Postone has produced a weighty work on central, categorical questions of Marx’s critique of economy. It is in no way a merely academic exercise. The vanishing point of even his most abstract...
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Rage
Rage without utopian prospects of real change is like living in a favela on the edge of Pandemonium waiting for the rebellion to begin, no matter what you do you are still trapped in a sub-basement of...
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Cryptocurrency and Efficient Market Hypothesis. Drunken Risibility.
According to the traditional definition, a currency has three main properties: (i) it serves as a medium of exchange, (ii) it is used as a unit of account and (iii) it allows to store value. Along...
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INTRODUCTION TO NON-MARXISM
Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some...
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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Frieden
Wenn die Atombomben gezündet werden, sind wir tot. Mit den Gegnern der Nachrüstung und der Neutronenbombe aber müssen wir leben. Wenn die Bombe gefallen ist, leidet niemand mehr. Wir leiden – im...
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Guattari & Italy’s “Hot Autumn”
Guattari was dreaming of building a federation of regional protest movements, which could open up secondary fronts and weaken the Nation-State. Despite his extensive network of contacts, he never...
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Ernest Mandel’s contribution to Economic Dynamics
Ernest Mandel’s contribution to Marxist economic theory, made in the late sixties and early seventies, was in its time without equal. He rescued from oblivion the most central concept available to us...
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Crisis and Sequels: capitalism and the new economic turmoil since 2007
Like every crisis, 2008’s surprised. Some of us failed to see how turmoil originating in finance, and apparently in a limited area of finance to do with the US housing market, could have such great...
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The Future of Decision: Governance, Algorithms, and Cognitive Bias
Berardi makes a valid point in his critique of Srnicek and Williams Inventing the Future: “Srnicek and Williams suggest that we should ‘demand full automation, demand universal basic income, demand...
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Postdemokratie, Neoliberalismus und ziviler Ungehorsam
Markus Metz / Georg Seeßlen: Bürger erhebt Euch! – Postdemokratie, Neoliberalismus und ziviler Ungehorsam Dass sich im Übergang von parlamentarischer Demokratie zur medialisierten Postdemokratie und...
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The Scourge of Ratings Agencies
This is from the archives written over two days in August and September this year and meant as part of the weekly digest for PFPAC (FB). Some days back, a friend, asked a question on Ratings Agencies...
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Home Too much production: Postone’s new interpretation of Marx’s theory...
Moishe Postone has produced a weighty work on central, categorical questions of Marx’s critique of economy. It is in no way a merely academic exercise. The vanishing point of even his most abstract...
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Rage
Rage without utopian prospects of real change is like living in a favela on the edge of Pandemonium waiting for the rebellion to begin, no matter what you do you are still trapped in a sub-basement of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cryptocurrency and Efficient Market Hypothesis. Drunken Risibility.
According to the traditional definition, a currency has three main properties: (i) it serves as a medium of exchange, (ii) it is used as a unit of account and (iii) it allows to store value. Along...
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INTRODUCTION TO NON-MARXISM
Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some...
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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Frieden
Wenn die Atombomben gezündet werden, sind wir tot. Mit den Gegnern der Nachrüstung und der Neutronenbombe aber müssen wir leben. Wenn die Bombe gefallen ist, leidet niemand mehr. Wir leiden – im...
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Guattari & Italy’s “Hot Autumn”
Guattari was dreaming of building a federation of regional protest movements, which could open up secondary fronts and weaken the Nation-State. Despite his extensive network of contacts, he never...
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