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Einleitung: Katastrophische Kontexte Dieser Essay ist ein Prospekt für den Biokommunismus, einen Kommunismus, der aus den Katastrophen entsteht, die das Kapital heute im Bios, dem Bereich des Lebens selbst, anrichtet. Nach einer kurzen Darstellung der Theorie, die seiner Terminologie zugrunde liegt, werden sechs Elemente des Biokommunismus vorgestellt: neue Systeme der Katastrophenhilfe, die Öffnung der Grenzen…
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Introduction: Outside the Room On July 29 2020, in a sweltering Washington heatwave, a roomful of US congresspeople, most, but not all, masked against the rampant coronavirus, interrogated the virtually-present CEOs of four of the most highly market-valued companies on the planet: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim Cook of Apple, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet/Google and…
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Nick Dyer-Witheford, Bue Rübner Hansen and Emanuele Leonardi Read Part II and Part III QUESTION 1: How do you define degrowth? Nick: Over the last few years the intensifying climate emergency and other ecological crises has stirred a surge of interest in left versions of “degrowth”. Publication of the English translation of Kohei Saito’s Marx…
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For Socialist Futures, European University Institute Badia Fiesolina, Emeroteca, May 25–26 2022 Introduction: Catastrophic Contexts This essay is a prospectus for biocommunism, a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself. After a brief account of the theory behind its terminology, it sets out six elements of…
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By Nick Dyer-Witheford, Jaime Brenes Reyes and Michelle Liu This paper, originally published by Into the Black Box on June 29, 2020, was written before the Black Lives Matter uprisings, in the US and around the world, ignited by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. We are currently working, alongside new…
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Aufruhr-Logistik – Ein Beitrag von Nick Dyer-Witheford, Jaime Brenes Reyes und Michelle Liu am 29. Juni 2020 auf Into the Black Box. Riots und Logistik In den Jahren 2018 und 2019 brachen überall auf dem Planeten Massenaufstände in Paris, Hongkong, Santiago, Quito, Beirut, Barcelona, Teheran, Bagdad und an vielen anderen Orten aus. Die Proteste zeichneten…
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This paper places digital labour in the context of recently revived interest in the young Marx’s concept of ‘species-being’ (Gatungswesen). Cryptically and fragmentarily announced in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, but largely abandoned in Marx’s later work, the idea has passed in and then, apparently decisively, out, of fashion amongst his interpreters. But…
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Despite the fall of actually-existing socialism, the idea of computerized economic planning continued to be developed by small groups of theorists, who have advanced its conceptual scope further than anything attempted by Soviet cyberneticians. Two schools have been of particular importance: the ‘New Socialism’ of Scottish computer scientists Paul Cockshott and Alan Cottrell (1993); and…
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… Conclusion: For K-ommunism? Marx (1964), in his famous, or notorious, comparison of the ‘worst of architects’ and the ‘best of bees’, saw the former distinguished by an ability to ‘erect in imagination’ the structure he will create. Today, with our improved knowledge of bee communities, this distinction reeks of anthropocentricism. Yet even alongside bees,…
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The interview was conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine following a lecture by Nick Dyer-Witheford at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTUU KPI). We would like to thank those who brought this lecture and text to life, namely Yurii Dergunov, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Serhiy Odarych, Alona Liasheva and clearly Nick Dyer-Witheford. On Marxism and…