Morbid Interregnum
In his Prison Notebooks (1930), Antonio Gramsci wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great […]
Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
(worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist […]
Control/Crisis/Junk
Datawar In the comments to my previous post, Sketches on Mutant Design, RS Bakker raised an important point on the technologies insulated in the core of neoliberal functionality: “I think […]
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
“History is not a race with a finish line — and if we make it one, it’s a game we will lose. Instead, history ought to be seen as a […]
Covid Fallout (2)
Throughout the Covid crisis, the use of the war metaphor, as means of persuasion and matrix of explanation, has become pervasive in politics and the popular media. Both practices have […]
Insurrection & Infrastructure: a Dual Power Guide for Leftists in the British Isles
“Complex challenges require intelligent solutions. We are now faced with the problem of how to , in the words of Stafford Beer, creat a “liberty machine in protoype”. Dual Power, […]
Covid Fallout
The Covid 19 crisis has weakened the United States and the European Union. For the most part, American states and European nation-states have retreated behind borders and reverted to a […]
War Capitalism
Suddenly we are living under war capitalism. As in any war, people are dying. Nothing very meaningful can be said about that. One can look at the videos coming out […]
Philosophy’s Abasement
Can we think an earth and a human such that they would be only what they are—nothing but earth and human — and such that they would be none of […]
Badiou’s truth and the fate of bodies
In a recent post over at “Agent Swarm” Terrance Blake linked to a translation by Timothy Lavenz of a section of Badiou’s “Immanence of Truths”. The piece set me thinking […]
