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Die Überschrift des Beitrags wurde Gilles Châtelets Buch „To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies“ entlehnt. Man denke bezüglich dieser freundlichen Übernahme an das Geständnis von Deleuze/Guattari, dass sie nur noch die zitieren, die sie lieben. Auf welche Maxime, die anstatt des schweinischen Lebens ein anderes Leben…
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14 Thesen von Alexander Galloway gemäß Laruelle: 1) Das mediale Prinzip: Das Reale ist kommunizierbar, und das Kommunizierbare ist real. 2) Für das Standard-Modell der Philosophie ist alles, was gegeben ist, gespalten. 3) In der Non-Standard-Philosophie ist das Eine eine Subtraktion oder eine Virtualisierung. 4) Das Eine hat keine Attribute. 5) Die Attribute des Seins…
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As various forms of computationalism continue to influence contemporary writing in theory and philosophy, it seems appropriate to reexamine some of the fundamental assumptions and principles of computation, so that we may identify them more readily. In an earlier, characteristically modernist, phase, media theorists like Lev Manovich and others sought to identify and itemize the…
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“Mental illness is not the rare malady of an isolated dropout, but the widespread consequence of panic, depression, precariousness, and humiliation: these are the sources of the contemporary global fragmentary war, and they are spreading everywhere, rooted in the legacy of colonialism and in the frenzy of daily competition. …….– Franco Berardi on the coming…
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Liveblogging reading Felix Guattari’s book LINES OF FLIGHT, translated by Andrew Goffey. The unconscious, for Guattari, is “structured” like a multiplicity of modes of semiotisation. This hypothesis contains in germ Bruno Latour ‘s multiple modes of existence, which are also modes of semiotisation: If it was still necessary to talk about structure with regard to…
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![Afro-pessimism as Aesthetic Blackness? [Putting the Pessimism in Afro-Pessimism]](https://non-milleplateaux.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Malewitsch.jpg)
On the occasion of Achille Mbembe’s new preface to the African reprint of On the Postcolony by Wits University Press. Mbembe: Critique is witnessing as well as endless vigilance, interrogation and anticipation. A proper critique requires us first to dwell in the chaos of the night in order precisely to better break through into the…
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Abstract: This article utilises the new reading of Marx found in the work of Michael Heinrich to analyse the creative industries. It considers the role played in the production of value by the labour that takes place in the sphere of circulation. The specific focus is on creative industries such as graphic design, advertising, and…
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Anti-determinism is a common position today, in both popular and academic conversations alike. Redemptive narratives in social and political theory are usually centered around things like contingency or play, or other mechanisms for eluding determination such as escape or accident. Many associate life itself with anti-determinism, suggesting that the very vitality of a living creature…
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In a lecture published in the Cardozo Law Review in 2008, Alain Badiou articulates his understanding of Being, Event, and Simulacrum in relationship to Logic and Law. With an incredible power of precision, Badiou reminds his audience of Aristotle’s three main pillars of the process of thought (Identity, non-contradiction, and the excluded middle), which he then…