Tag Archives: General Intellect

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 →

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Machinic Oedipus, Machinic Multitude

Posted on May 8, 2013 by edmundberger

Every technical practice is a social practice, every technical practice is soaked in social determination. But it doesn’t present itself as such: it claims autonomy, innocence, a technical rationality founded on science. This rationality subtends the ideology of faith, which … Continue reading →

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Becoming Machine: Thoughts on Hardt and Negri’s ‘Enigmatic Passages’

Posted on April 13, 2013 by edmundberger

1. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire has been called many things, running the gamut from the alter-globalization movement’s Communist Manifesto to a secret justification for neoliberal capitalism. One thing for sure is that it captures a zeitgeist; between the … Continue reading →

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