Tag Archives: autonomism

Labor, Automation, and Refusal

Posted on October 13, 2015 by edmundberger

Marxism has, and had for a quite a long time, a problem with the question of work. This is not to say that Marxism can be confused with the insistence of its antagonist, capitalism, over the relations of labor and … Continue reading →

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Glimpses of the Future: Personal Reflections on Accelerationist Politics

Posted on March 25, 2015 by edmundberger

(In which I continue to lecture myself, in continuation of my previous post) I came into contact with Accelerationism shortly after Occupy the way I imagine many people did – through the writings of former CCRUnaut Mark Fisher, primarily through … Continue reading →

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The Decline and Fall: Personal Reflections on Post-Left Anarchism, Occupy, and the Future of the Left

Posted on March 24, 2015 by edmundberger

Derick Varn of Symptomatic Commentary has an interesting and brief post that asks the question “what happened to post-left anarchism?” It’s an interesting thing to pose – post-left anarchism (from henceforth “PLA”) emerged during the 1990s as a loose tendency … Continue reading →

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#Automate

Posted on December 9, 2014 by edmundberger

From the occupation at the University of Warwick:

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Anti-Oedipus and Orgone

Posted on August 10, 2013 by edmundberger

In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari acknowledge that both the post-Freudian psychologist Wilhelm Reich and the Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse acted as forerunners of their own particular brand of libidinal politics. Reich, in a series of books including The Mass … Continue reading →

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3 Quotes on the Refusal of Labor

Posted on August 9, 2013 by edmundberger

Behind the glorification of “work” and the tireless talk of the “blessings of work” I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At bottom, one feels now … Continue reading →

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Autonomia: Broadcasting Beyond the Code

Posted on May 17, 2013 by edmundberger

Drawing on Baudrillard, Berardi maintains that A/Traverso, Radio Alice, and other creative groups of Autonomia deployed a strategy of symbolic disorder – a strategy that the French philosopher has described as a Pataphysical science of “imaginary solutions” characterized by the … Continue reading →

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The Refusal of Work

Posted on April 26, 2013 by edmundberger

I’ve been reading a lot of Bifo and Marazzi lately. I came to Autonomism the way I imagine a lot of people have: drifting through Hardt and Negri’s more contemporary writings and the French post-structuralist works of the 1970s, then … Continue reading →

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Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by edmundberger

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics … Continue reading →

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