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Die weltweite Ungleichheit – immer exzessiver, immer unerträglicher
Der „Weltungleichheitsbericht 2018“ von Piketty, Alvaredo und anderen: Die „soziale Frage“ ist global und sie wird immer dringlicher Dem neuen World Inequality Report ist ein Motto Thomas Pikettys...
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Against Fortress Leftism
Free movement over markets is a minimum demand. In the most recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left) secured the fifth most seats in the Bundestag, the nation’s parliament. At the same time,...
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Media Narrative: Global Catastrophe and Climate Change
We’re living in a moment of shifting realities, it’s as if we are living in a post-Apocalyptic novel whose main character is in total denial. As if in our simulated probability systems we’ve seen the...
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James Lovelock: Doom is Inevitable, Have a Happy Life!
Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and...
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Cheap Food and Bad Climate : From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the...
... The dynamism of capitalist technological advance not only produces a tendency for industrial production to run ahead of its raw materials supply—Marx’s “general law” of underproduction —it also...
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Some comments on Andreas Malm’s ‘Fossil Capital’
Moreover Malm has transposed Marx’s argument on the organic composition of capital (the ratio of dead to living labor, increasing over time and producing a falling rate of profit) into a rising fossil...
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American Dystopia: The Empire of War
Capitalism and neoliberalism carry wars within them like clouds carry storms. —Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato, To Our Enemies Henry Miller the ex-patriot who would return to his native land just...
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Volatile States
Haiti is home to the slave rebellion that became arguably the great revolution of the modern world. For its trouble, totally not-racist liberal democratic nations punished it systematically until it...
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Magmatische Autonomie
Gegen den zeitgenössischen Trend einer Verkümmerung der Gesellschaftskritik behaupten sich im Augenblick nur wenige Theorien. Sie ragen wie einsame Inseln aus dem Meer der neokonservativen...
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Memes and the Reactionary Totemism of the Theft of Joy
"Note how they talk about animals, and are moved by them. They make a list of affects. These affects circulate and are transformed within the assemblage." Deleuze & Guattari In the summer of 2016...
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The Political Centrality of the Migrant
Political theory in the twenty-first century is at an interesting crossroads where migration has reached such a critical threshold that what seemed to be an exception has now become the rule. The...
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24/7: Sleepless Soldiers and the Psychopathy of Civilization
On first reading Johnathan Crary’s new book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep I wondered if I’d shifted into some dark psychopathic journey into the heart of darkness where citizens have...
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Imperialism or (and) Capitalist Expansionism
Abstract This paper critically reviews some fundamental theses of the theories of imperialism. It claims that a theory of imperialism, if based on Marx’s theory of capitalism, shall on the one hand...
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Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You
Introduction The following article was written in the early months of 2015. It is the result of a series of discussions and readings by the Surplus Club in Frankfurt am Main in accordance with the...
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Enjoy your vacation!
Conclusion: Vacation as fetish To Žižek, a fetish is an ‘embodiment of the Lie which enables us to sustain the unbearable truth’ (Žižek, 2001b: 13). The subject ‘rationally’ accepts the truth, yet is...
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THEODOR ADORNO & MASS CULTURE
Introduction Too many people talk about Theodor Adorno, and not enough people go through the difficult but bracing task of reading his texts. He is an easy man to caricature, because he believed in...
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Weltmarkt, Governance und Staatsparanoia
In einem Text aus dem Jahr 1973, der im Kursbuch erschien, hat der Soziologe Manfred Clemenz den Begriff des strukturellen Staatsfaschismus eingeführt, wobei der Autor voraussetzt, dass es keine...
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Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationalism or Eshuns afrofuturism....
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Mille Plateaux – Ultrablackness of Music
Project for book & compilation: Ultrablackness of Music When we look back it seems that Mille Plateaux was always dark. We never confirmed techno-utopism, accelerationism or Eshuns afrofuturism....
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Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect
In this latter sense, logistics indexes the subordination of production to the conditions of circulation, the becoming-hegemonic of those aspects of the production process that involve circulation. In...
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