Tag Archives: Foucault

Boredom/Anxiety/Time/Scales

Posted on June 14, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 8 Comments

Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication

Posted on May 26, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 12 Comments

Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere

Posted on May 3, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 9 Comments

Dark Discourses and Ghostly Media

Posted on March 29, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged control, cyberpunk, Deleuze, discipline, Empire, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, hauntology, industrial, limit-experience, McLuhan, modulation, mold, Negri, new media, postmodernism, Tiqqun, transgression, transhumanism | 6 Comments

Power, Knowledge, Self-Reference: Guattari’s Triad

Posted on February 13, 2014 by edmundberger

“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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged communication, control, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, information technology, machine, modulation, neoliberalism, schizoanalysis, sovereign | 7 Comments

Deleuze on Machines and Society

Posted on January 30, 2014 by edmundberger

“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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged civil society, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattar, Lewis Mumford, machine, megamachine | 4 Comments

Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun

Posted on November 14, 2013 by edmundberger

Today’s territory is the product of many centuries of police operations. People have been pushed out of their fields, then their streets, then their neighborhoods, and finally and from the hallways of their buildings, in the demented hope of containing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AFL-CIO, biopower, control, cybernetics, Empire, Foucault, General Intellect, Hardt, immaterial labor, IWW, multitude, Negri, Occupy Wall Street, post-Fordism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, revolution, spectacle, subjectivity, Tiqqun | 15 Comments

Lazzarato on Foucault and the Failure of Liberalism

Posted on July 13, 2013 by edmundberger

The governmentality Foucault describes in The Birth of Biopolitics does not seem sufficient for understanding what it implies from the 1990s on, when governmentality began to limit the freedom which Foucault made the condition of “liberalism.” The freedom in liberalism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, control, Foucault, liberalism, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, repression, Snowden | 6 Comments

Postmodern Passages: The Construction of the Body

Posted on July 6, 2013 by edmundberger

The near-constant refrain at the heart of anti-hegemonic conceptualizations has been the body; as we move from book to book, tome to tome, we can see again and again the resurgence of this discourse: the Cartesian mind-body dualism, Spinoza’s eternal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged affect, becoming, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, hybridity, Lacan, Massumi, modernism, Negri, postcolonialism, postmodernism, structuralism, subjectivity, the body, transhumanism, warfare | 15 Comments

Fragments of Ektos/Modernism’s Delirium (Post I)

Posted on June 25, 2013 by edmundberger

Ektos – Greek: outside, beyond the outside, exterior, outside of beyond, besides, except. “Since the end of the eighteenth century, the life of unreason no longer manifests itself except in the lightning-flash works such as those of Holderin, of Nerval, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Artaud, biopower, Body without Organs, Deleuze, Fordism, Foucault, gnosticism, Guattari, Keynesianism, modernism, radio, the body | 10 Comments