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Covid-19: An invisible agent of catastrophe
Autonomies share here a very free and partial translation (interspersed with paraphrases and summaries) of Donatella Di Ceasare’s essay, Virus Sovrano? L’Asfissia Capitalistica (Bollati Boringhieri...
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TIME, THE VALUE OF MONEY AND THE QUANTIFICATION OF VALUE
This paper establishes, and illustrates for the case of the UK, a temporal method for calculating the labour values of outputs from any process or sector of a market economy. It exhibits the temporal...
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Productivity and Labour
The need to increase the productivity of individual capital, which goes hand in hand with competition, leads to a decline in the value of goods, which may increase the rate of added value (m/v) due to...
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Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money
The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1 These three concepts are especially developed...
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A reflection on Giorgio Agamben’s work, The Highest Poverty, or on the “way...
The Poor Way We will pay tribute to the great Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben, the anti-Badiou par excellence.And we will, in particular, try to illustrate one of the last books of the Homo Sacer...
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Ökonomie und technische Systeme: Die andauernde (weitergeführte,...
Es ist wesentlich zu erkennen, dass die Ökonomie von den Ökonomen (den vorherrschenden, neoklassischen) selbst als eine Art „technisches Super-System“ betrachtet wird. Niemals ist vom „Kapitalismus“...
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Der wirkliche Name des „zweiten Einschlusses [1]“ – [Manöver zur...
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Wie können wir diese „zweite Einschließung“ verstehen? Was geschieht mit uns? Das ist es, was Aclin in dieser ausgezeichneten Analyse zu entschlüsseln versucht. Beginnend mit...
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Spectral Composition: On Spectral Music, Drone Metal, and Electronic music
read also here taken from the book Ultrablack of Music A somber enthusiasm In this essay, I don’t aim at analyzing a specific genre of music: my goal is rather to grasp a musical configuration...
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Returning to Lucretius
Why Return to Lucretius? I think a new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every period in Western history since Lucretius has returned to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of...
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Cars, Riots, & Black Liberation: #Philadelphia’s Walter Wallace Rebellion
Originally published by Mute. Written by Shemon and Arturo. Image above: ‘Looting rampant’ in Philly. Glass shatters. Thick plumes of dark black smoke pour out of a burning police car stalled in the...
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The Radical Dyad of the Non-Human: Thinking Inequality Beyond Identity as...
Presentation at the Panel Wither Real Abstraction?, Historical Materialism London Conference – Online 2020 Abstract: Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s epistemology enables a materialist account of the abstractions...
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Karl Marx and the Classics
An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production John Milios, Dimitri Dimoulis, George Economakis Marx’s Critique of Political Economy constitutes not a “correction” of Classical...
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A Short Note on Sohn Rethels Realabstraktion
Even the disregard for empiricism, which Sohn-Rethel places in the context of the concept of real abstraction of exchange (abstraction from use and at the same time separation of the form of exchange...
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Alfred Sohn-Rethels große Idee und ihr Problem
Das Maß als blinder Fleck der Kapitalismuskritik Frank Engster und Andreas Schröder Sohn-Rethel hat sich zur Mächtigkeit seiner erkenntniskritischen und an Kant orientierten Fragen nach der „Bedingung...
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Use value stimulation: Making the ShoppingMall distinguishable from the...
Apart from the distinction between the supra-historical dimension of use value, which is expressed in the fact that there are objects that satisfy needs at all, and the dimension of the thoroughly...
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THEORY OF THE EARTH
Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely...
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De virus illustribus: Coronavirus-Krise und struktureller Zusammenbruch des...
von Sandrine Aumercier, Clément Homs, Gabriel Zacarías und Anselm Jappe Übersetzung der Präsentation und des ersten Kapitels des Buches „De virus illustribus“, das demnächst am 28. August bei Crise et...
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Marx After Growth #1 An Introduction to Marx’s Critique
This four-part lecture series asks what the Marxian critique of political economy can tell us about the twenty-first century, an historical moment marked by deindustrialization, economic stagnation,...
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Marx After Growth #2 The Esoteric Marx
The Esoteric Marx This second lecture picks up on some key points from the first lecture to explore the ‘esoteric’ Marx, a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of...
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Man From Sol – Automorph Totality
Out Now on Mille Plateaux you can order on Bandcamp "Man from Sol’s album Automorph Totality brings texture to the forefront and uses rhythm to create a weaving path through the abstract world of...
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