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Tag Archives: discipline
Boredom/Anxiety/Time/Scales
Here the delirium of the recline of western civilization is experienced as both the ecstasy of crash culture and the catastrophe of our burn-out in digital culture.i Arran James has put up an in-depth and fascinating post over at Synthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, anxiety, boredom, contained time, control, Deleuze, difference, discipline, Foucault, generality, information, information technology, intermodal, machinic time, mechanosphere, network, rhythm, slow-down, speed, time
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Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication
We have become so accustomed to violence through entertainment that transgression itself has become merely another capitalist performance. How then do we elevate art, how can it be a reaction to the Other instead of its medium? How must we … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, Attali, Bataille, becoming, communication, contagion, control, Dada, Deleuze, desire, discipline, dread, dub, Foucault, Furies, Futurism, global ghettotech, globalization, Guattari, heresy, krautrock, lack, McKenzie Wark, media, modernism, network, networks, Nick Land, noise, noncommunicatin, power, Protocol, resistance, rhizomes, sabotage, sacrifice, schizoanalysis, schizophrenia, Situationism, the negative, the sacred, the weird, transgression, via negativa, xenocommunication
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Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere
I. In 2007, a group of some two-hundred entrepreneurs representing technological start-ups descended on Seattle for “a wine and cheese party” organized by Amazon and Madrona Venture Group, an early investor in the tech corporations like the aforementioned digital … Continue reading
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Tagged biopower, cellular automata, complexity theory, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Empire, Foucault, globalization, Guattari, information technology, information theory, mechanosphere, Metropolis, neoliberalism, networks, nomadism, panopticon, simulation, Situationism, spectacle, surveillance, urbanism
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Dark Discourses and Ghostly Media
Steve Hickman has written an excellent reply to my “Meditations on the Ether,” so in depth and straight to the point that I feel that its best to respond in post-form, not simply in the comments section. Quote: “What this … Continue reading
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Tagged control, cyberpunk, Deleuze, discipline, Empire, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, hauntology, industrial, limit-experience, McLuhan, modulation, mold, Negri, new media, postmodernism, Tiqqun, transgression, transhumanism
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Diagramming Empire’s Regulators
As a supplement to the previous post, I’ve put a chart over in the downloads section that diagrams some of the aspects of Bomb, Money, and Ether from multiple perspectives (network form, social organization, logics of operation, key dates, etc.)
Mold/Modulation, Analog/Digital (A Handful of Deleuze Quotes)
Postscript on the Societies of Control (1992) The different internments of spaces of enclosure through which the individual passes are independent variables: each time one us supposed to start from zero, and although a common language for all these … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract painting, analog, Artaud, Bateson, computers, control, Deleuze, digital, discipline, Guattari, mechanosphere, modulation, mold, synthesizer
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Power, Knowledge, Self-Reference: Guattari’s Triad
“Machines,” wrote Gilles Deleuze in his examination of Foucault’s thought, “are always social before being technical. Or, rather, there is a human technology before which exists before a material technology.”i With this simple statement, the entirety of processes in development … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, control, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, information technology, machine, modulation, neoliberalism, schizoanalysis, sovereign
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Deleuze on Machines and Society
“The concrete machines are the two-form assemblages or mechanisms, whereas the abstract machine is the informal diagram. In other words, the machines are social before being technical. Or, rather, there is a human technology which exists before a material technology. … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattar, Lewis Mumford, machine, megamachine
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Reading Notes from S.M. Amadae’s “Rationalizing Democracy”
Introduction “…recounts the defeat of Marxism by rational choice liberalism: a philosophy of markets and democracies that was developed in part to anchor the foundations of American society during the Cold War.” (pgs. 2-3) RC has persisted past the Cold War … Continue reading
Galloway’s “Control Matrix”
As a continuation of my previous post, I would like to replicate Alexander Galloway’s “Control Matrix” (Protocol, pgs. 114-115), which he uses to point towards a future (anti-?)politics of irrationality, silence, and hypertrophy. Part 1 Era Machine Energy mode Disciplinary … Continue reading
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Tagged contagion, control, discipline, Empire, hypertrophy, irrationality, modernism, noise, postmodernism, Protocol, randomness, silence, the future
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Deterritorial Investigations 