Elections, State: Instruments of expropriation.
Elections Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This...
View Article10 Fear Factors: Warum die Krise noch richtig eskalieren könnte
taken from Ajour Magazin Die Welt steuert auf eine wirtschaftliche Krise gigantischen Ausmasses zu, auch wenn das Thema wieder etwas aus der öffentlichen Diskussion verschwunden ist. Was passiert,...
View ArticleFinancialization:Market Discipline or Capital Discipline?
John Milios/ Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos A crucial aspect of nearly all contemporary approaches to imperialism is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of the globalized financial sector of...
View ArticleNotiz zur Langeweile
Nietzsche erfindet eine Typologie der Langeweile, in der die Langeweile zunächst ein positives Zeichen für das Leben des Gelehrten ist, während der gewöhnliche Denker vor der Langweile flieht und...
View ArticleBetween Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible 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...
View ArticleNochmal zur Zeitenwende
Die Abwehr von Verschwörungstheorien ist gegenwärtig nur die Abwehr, überhaupt strukturiert über ökonomische, militärische und politische Prozesse nachzudenken. Man verpaßt so die Geschichte und ihre...
View Articlenotes on boredom
Nietzsche invents a typology of boredom, in which boredom is initially a positive sign for the life of the scholar, while the ordinary thinker flees from boredom and seeks diversion with his...
View ArticleDeconstruction and Non-Philosophy
In order to determine the characteristics of non-philosophy, we frame it in opposition to an image of an established paradigm: Deconstruction (as suggested by Jean-Luc Nancy in La deconstruction du...
View ArticleStiegler and Lacan — No Relation?
I won't bring up Lacan on Monday. But the non-encounter between Stiegler and Lacan recently struck me as important and I wanted to try to unravel the mystery... Stiegler wrote frequently about...
View ArticleDer funktionelle Psychopath – Wahn von der Stange (erweiterte Fassung)
Der funktionelle Psychopath – Wahn von der Stange Die seit dem Jahre 1980 im Zuge der neoliberalen Transformationen stattfindenden Umstrukturierungen waren es auch, die das finanzialisierte...
View ArticleAuto-Position and Being-in-One (Being-According-to-the-One)
The highest formal act of the philosophical Decision through which philosophical faith in the real enables the latter to be posited as the Real in an illusory way. It is consequently the real cause of...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Storm: A Report from #Kenosha
Report from Hard Crackers on the Kenosha uprising on the first several days of the uprising following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Originally published by Hard Crackers on September 7, 2020....
View ArticleWhat is Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the...
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if...
View ArticleClimate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on...
View ArticleDie Barbarei der Beschäftigung – Vom Produzenten zum Konsumenten von Arbeit
Oben habe ich argumentiert, dass bis in die 1970er Jahre hinein die gesellschaftliche Vermittlung über die Arbeit von einer wechselseitigen Abhängigkeit von Kapital und Arbeit geprägt war. Diese...
View ArticleThomas Nails Magnum Opus “Being and Motion”– eine Sensation in...
Einleitung Sein Magnum Opus „Being and Motion“ beginnt Thomas Nail mit dem lapidaren Satz “Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bewegung.“ Als Anhaltspunkte dienen für Nail, dass wir unter sozialen...
View ArticleMeasuring the Profitability of Chinese Industry: Data Brief
Summary What follows is a lengthy piece, with lots of intricacies about the exact methods used, alongside detailed anatomies of our results. It is, in the end, fairly boring to read closely, and a...
View ArticleThomas Nails Magnum Opus “Being and Motion” – eine Sensation in...
Der Flow Das Sein fließt. Das ist die zentrale These für eine Theorie der Bewegung, die Nail in die drei Konzepte des flows, der Falte und des Feldes unterteilt. Das Sein muss fließen, es muss sich...
View ArticleA Short Text about Nano-Fascist-Rhythm
taken from Ultrablack of Music order here Although it sounds as if it is a simple echo of the original German fascism, Nano-fascism is a reappropriation of fascism by Turkish Republic, which has given...
View ArticleIn Defense of Black Bloc at #NYC Protests
New York City. A piece about the Black Bloc at the Breonna Taylor protests in New York. Originally published by Abolition Media Worldwide. On the Breonna Taylor March On September 23rd, Breonna Taylor...
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