On the question of real estate Speculation (1)
Today, on the one hand, we are seeing rising rents and the infamous gentrification, vertical housing construction and expensive condominiums in the centres of large cities, monstrous large-scale...
View ArticleUltrablack of Music – Book & Compilation (Out in February 2020 on Mille...
Frédéric Neyrat Spectral Composition: on Spectral Music, Drone Metal, and Electronic Music Frédéric Neyrat The Messianic Messing-Up Achim Szepanski Ultrablack of Music Holger Schulze Sonic...
View ArticleThe Time Modalities of Capital and Postone’s Misinterpretation
One should by no means identify the abstract time of capital with a linear and homogeneous order of time, in which, in a continuous flow of time running ahead on the time stream, each time stage...
View Article„Ein beeindruckender Tag“ – Rückblick auf den Streik und die Demonstration...
Am vergangenen Donnerstag beteiligten sich um die 1 Million Menschen in Frankreich an den landesweiten Demonstrationen gegen die Pläne der Regierung, die Rentenversicherung zu „reformieren“, sprich...
View ArticleThe Working Class and the Middle Classes in the GreekEconomic Crisis: Allies...
George Economakis and John Milios ABSTRACT On the basis of a Marxist analysis of capitalist relations of classpower and the class configuration in contemporary advanced capitalist societies, the paper...
View ArticleWhat is determination in the last instance? (20 points)
1) For Laruelle, philosophy always revolves around dualities or differences, being - other, theory - practice, ontic-ontological, etc. 2) Laruelle leaves this terrain to fully invest his thinking...
View ArticleHow to Spot an Analog Philosopher
How to spot an analog philosopher? First look at his attachments... What does he love the most? Analog philosophers value life and vitality, and thus have a special affection for nature. They talk...
View ArticleMaking America great again
Can Trump reverse or even dent this long-term evisceration of “America”? The short answer is no. So far, his policies have only hastened this evisceration, accelerating the upward redistribution of...
View ArticleAxioms/Theorems for a New (Non)-Policy of the Black Block – Becoming...
McKenzie Wark writes in his current contribution to the new text of the Invisible Committee "To Our Friends" that the state has produced the anarchist Black Block as the negative subject of the state...
View ArticleDo Everything to Help the Private Sector to Engage in the Strike! Do...
Extension of the strike to the private sector! Let us mobilize for the extension and generalization of the fight! Everywhere workers' committees or General Assembly to organize the generalization!...
View ArticleAbschied von Thunberg
Die Klimabewegung muss künftig über das Verhältnis zum Kapitalismus reden, um nicht in das System integriert zu werden Nun wurde auch Greta Thunberg zur Person des Jahres gekürt. Das ist vielleicht...
View ArticleThese nights are for Alexis – Ein anderer 6. Dezember in Athen
Der diesjährige Jahrestag der Ermordung von Alexis verlief in Athen in vielerlei Hinsicht anders als in den letzten Jahren, was sowohl am politischen Kontext als auch an neuer taktischer...
View Article“Von Teheran nach Beirut, eine einzige Revolution, die nicht ausgelöscht...
Die Übersetzung der folgenden Zeilen über den jüngsten Aufstand im Iran macht aus meiner Sicht in vielerlei Hinsicht Sinn. Erstens weil sie nicht von einem gänzlich Außenstehenden stammt, ergo im...
View ArticleStreik. Riot. Agonie. Zur aktuellen Situation in Frankreich.
Es schien alles so schön anzufangen und die Herzen der Freunde der traditionellen Formen des Klassenkampfes schlugen schon höher. Am 5. Dezember versammelten sich in Frankreich landesweit um die 1...
View ArticleMarx’s Theory of Value (1)
The problem of the value form Within the framework of value form analysis, Marx is not concerned with analyzing the exchange relationships of goods, whether as historical or logical, or as...
View ArticleMarx`Theory of Value (2)
simple and unfolded value form On the one hand, we take a look at the so-called capital-logical reading (which has been widely discussed since the 1968 student movement, especially in Germany, based...
View ArticleMarx`Theory of value (3)
general value form In order to obtain the general value form from the unfolded value form, only the simple operation of reversal is required, which implies that we are dealing virtually with a...
View ArticleClimate crisis and self-critique: “We thrive uninvited where we were never...
The man made catastrophe called climate change is already a reality for many people. This catastrophe hits those hardest, who have the least capacities of adapting to it – and the least responsibility...
View ArticleChile, Tag 57
Demonstration am 57. Tag des Aufstandes in Chile. Eine Aktivistin, die an dem Tag dabei war, berichtet aus Santiago: "Am 13.12., dem 57. Tag des Aufstands, waren wieder hunderttausende auf der Plaza...
View ArticleThe Breakdown of Capitalist Realism
In this intervention, I reflect on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism as a work better known for its title, as a phrase or slogan, than for the substance of the book. While indicative of the success of...
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