Time, Thought, Critique
Imagine the following scenario. In thirty years time (it might be sooner) whatever portion of the globe you reside on has succumbed to any or all of the disasters climate […]
Category Archives: Marx
Thinking Marx Through Harvey
I like David Harvey. I “liked” the video of his Amsterdam talk, even before I listened to it. I liked it mostly out of an habitual attraction to anything […]
Organizing for Promethean Socialism?
In her post “Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods“, Amelia Davenport argued for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for […]
Capital Is Dead
In her new book, “Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?” (2019), McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a […]
Towards a Terran Resistance Front?
E-Flux‘s latest installment has a great piece by Sven Lütticken, ‘Toward a Terrestrial‘, riffing on communist history and its possible mutations towards a terrestrial politics. Latour’s theoretic attractor “The Terrestrial” […]
Marxism: one in Name and one without. — Holo-Poiesis
There seems to be two general currents in Marxism, one current proceeds from the form of Marx’s critique, the other from the motion underlying the critique. By “motion” I am […]
Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
To Destitute The World?
“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds by Stephen Woroniecki Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures […]
On Marx and Socialized Nature
I’d like to comment on Edmund Berger’s post on the “ecological” Marx which you can read here. The nub of the issue he raises is summarised in the following: This […]
Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity
Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]
Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy
RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]
Technology as Fetish: Marx, Latour, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism
“The concept of time-space appropriation thus offers a way to define and even quantify asymmetric global flows of resources that are fundamental to the accumulation of physical capital.” ~ Alf […]
dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering
Just finished my first pass of the first chapter of Inventing the Future. Its pretty familiar but still quite dense for that. One of the lurking monsters beneath the chapter […]
Accelerationism, Desire and Madness
Last night at the Glasgow School of Art Mark Fisher took the stage to discuss accelerationism. I have to say that up until last night I had given only a passing interest […]
The Innocence of Media
The US anarchosyndicalist group Recomposition published an article, that is well worth reading, on the same day (uncannily) that I published my last post on black blocs. My last post dealt with the black […]
Attention bombardment: Is there a Lenin for the anxious age?
This post originally published on attemptatliving in April. Terence Blake is currently translating the latest seminar with Bernard Stiegler. In scanning through it I am reminded of the reasons I […]
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)
It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]
Pathways Through Chaos
In the video below Brian Holmes talks about the post-war culture of machine society, autopoiesis, Marx, globalization, art, geopolitics, cultural critique, cybernetics, activism. Here Holmes is attempting to build towards […]
