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We are entering a new epoch: the century of the migrant
The rhetoric of migrant “invasions” is back again. Donald Trump has recently described the caravan of Central American refugees marching to the US as “an onslaught,” “an assault on our country,” and...
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Notes on the Communist Horizon as an Immanent Outside
Distinct thoughts are coalescing after last night’s now-embarrassing waste of energy on Twitter arguments. I always regret fanning the flames with so much oxygen the morning after and, obviously, it...
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Bienoise – Most Beautiful Design (Mille Plateaux 1)
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these...
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What is it to Live and Think like Gilles Châtelet?
– What is To Live and Think Like Pigs about? [Châtelet:] It’s a book about the fabrication of individuals who operate a soft censorship on themselves…In them, humanity is reduced to a bubble of...
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The Truth According to Hermes: Theorems on the Secret and Communication
The secret does not need communication in order to be what it is, to be known and to be an “object” of a rigorous science. But communication needs the secret in order to be what it is. Between the...
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Die radikale Indifferenz von Facebook & Co ist tief in das Kapital...
Shosana Zuboff bezeichnet in ihrem Buch Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Facebook & Co als die Herren der radikalen Indifferenz. Es entsteht eine neue Akkumulationslogik, in der das...
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Laruelle – Against the Digital (pdf)
Channel that great saint of radical blackness, Toussaint Louverture, and return to the Haitian Constitution of 1804, which stated that all citizens will be called black regardless of color. Such...
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CLICKY AESTHETICS: DELEUZE, HEADPHONICS, AND THE MINIMALIST ASSEMBLAGE OF...
It seems fitting, then, that with the “speed” and proliferation of music, artists, and new labels, as well as a “do-it-yourself” mode of production enabled by the new technologies, and the lack of an...
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Beyond Humanity: The Datacentric Worldview
…new technologies may suggest, create, even impose new ends, never before conceived, simply by offering their feasibility. —Hans Jonas, Toward a Philosophy of Technology For years now philosophers,...
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Utopia Robotz (Video)
For this video Alberto told me he had something wave-ish in mind. I also had quite similar impressions. The track Utopia Robotz feels blury and like a big field of nearly invisible turbulence. For me...
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Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model
I want to begin by briefly considering Francois Laruelle’s Non-philosophy project alongside the philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an 'aesthetics of the generic'...
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Griechenland: 10 Jahre nach den tödlichen Schüssen auf Alexis Grigoropoulos –...
Von dem Moment an als der 14-jährige Alexis Grigoropoulos am 6. Dezember 2008 von einem Bullen niedergeschossen wurde, änderte sich die Gestalt, das Wesen, ja die Erscheinungsform der Gesellschaft in...
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Deleuze/Guattari und die Quanten-Finance
Deleuze/Guattari fordern uns dazu auf, mindestens drei Denk-Modelle auf die theoretische Analyse der Ökonomie anzuwenden, indem sie selbst das Bild der Strömung, das ihrerAnsicht zufolge jedes Modell...
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>>Die Surplusbevölkerung vegetiert heute auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen...
Interview mit Achim Szepanski im Autonomie-Magazin. Von: Raoul Hamlet/ Vidar Lindström. Achim, du hast allein 2018 drei Bücher herausgebracht. Die Ökonomie-Einführung „Kapital und Macht im 21....
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The Hooks Beneath the Bait / Entrapment and Escape in Althusser and Art
Francois Matheron has suggested that the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of providing a comprehensive assessment to the work of Louis Althusser results from the ‘generalized uncertainty’ of an...
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The Nordhaus Racket: How to use capitalization to minimize the cost of...
The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action....
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– von oben verworfen –
Im Rahmen der 23. Linken Literaturmesse in Nürnberg stellte Achim Szepanski zusammen mit Karl-Heinz Dellwo das von ihnen gemeinsam mit J. Paul Weiler herausgegebene Buch "Riot - Was war da los in...
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The Hedonistic Imperative: The Seduction of Hypercapitalism
The unlikely parable that Xenophon relates between Socrates and their mutual friend Aristippus of Cyrene serves as a lead in to the subject of this post. Socrates had observed his friend Aristippus...
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Black Capital
THE COMPOSITE CITY The Western Lands are burning – drifting out into deep space; vapourized in the embers of hollow blazes crackling in the red night. Panorama of a mutant city… shaking, oscillating...
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Mille Plateaux: The Ultrablackness of Clicks & Cuts
Clicks & Cuts With Deleuze or Boulez we can speak of rhythm in terms of non-periodic clicked music. There is a transversal disjunction, which is articulated in the track intern and in relation to...
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