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Cybernetics and the Genealogy of Time Governance

November 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

[ SOURCE ] In the following article, Ceci Nelson re-reads the history of cybernetics through the entanglement of time and governance. As social turbulence and ecological collapse intensified across the […]

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Kant, Marx, Maturana, Wiener

Time, Thought, Critique

February 25, 2020by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

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 […]

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Marx

Thinking Marx Through Harvey

January 23, 2020by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

  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 […]

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Harvey, Laruelle, Marx

Organizing for Promethean Socialism?

December 30, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

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 […]

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Beer, Marx

Capital Is Dead

December 30, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

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 […]

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Marx, wark

Towards a Terran Resistance Front?

October 24, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

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” […]

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Latour, Marx, Viveiros de Castro

Marxism: one in Name and one without. — Holo-Poiesis

July 1, 2019by Patrick jennings 4 Comments

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 […]

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Marx, Uncategorized

Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy

April 1, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings

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Brassier, Deleuze, Kolozova, Land, Laruelle, Marx, Uncategorized

To Destitute The World?

March 5, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

“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.”

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Deleuze, Marx, Uncategorized

Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds

January 10, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

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 […]

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Darwin, Feynman, Freire, Hayhoe, Jameson, Marx, Woroniecki

On Marx and Socialized Nature

November 27, 2018by Patrick jennings 2 Comments

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 […]

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Berger, Marx

Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity

September 6, 2018by ||| 19 Comments

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 […]

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Heidegger, Kolozova, Laruelle, Marx

Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy

August 28, 2018by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Brassier, Marx, Uncategorized

Technology as Fetish: Marx, Latour, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism

July 18, 2018by ||| 22 Comments

“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 […]

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Hornborg, Marx

dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering

October 21, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

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 […]

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Marx, Srnicek

Accelerationism, Desire and Madness

June 11, 2014by Arran Crawford 3 Comments

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 […]

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Ballard, Bookchin, Deleuze, Fisher, Foucault, Guattari, Marx

The Innocence of Media

October 23, 2013by Arran Crawford 4 Comments

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 […]

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Marx, McLuhan

Attention bombardment: Is there a Lenin for the anxious age?

August 21, 2013by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

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 […]

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Marx

Infrastructure, Infra-politics

June 24, 2013by ||| 8 Comments

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, […]

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Foucault, Heidegger, Marx, Mitropoulos

The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)

June 20, 2013by ||| 2 Comments

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 […]

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Bourdieu, Derrida, Heidegger, Marx, Wittgenstein

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