Tag Archives: Guattari

Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)

Posted on December 6, 2014 by edmundberger

[This has been cross-posted with discussion over at Synthetic Zero] (worldmap: command and control) Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthropocene, apparatus, architecture, civil society, contagion, control, crisis, cybernetics, Deleuze, design, everyday life, glitch, Guattari, hacking, Information Guerrilla, information theory, Metropolis, neoliberalism, noise, Protocol, schizoanalysis, Situationism, urbanism | 6 Comments

The Poet and the Assassin: Control and Cosmos in “A Thousand Plateaus”

Posted on November 15, 2014 by edmundberger

The two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia have been read many ways: a critique of psychoanalysis, an exercise in nomadic thought, a foreshadow of chaos theory and the sciences of complexity, holistic texts packed with hermetic encoding. Anti-Oedipus in particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Accelerationism, Anti-Oedipus, control, cosmos, Deleuze, Fordism, Guattari, music, networks, noise, post-Fordism, revolution, Situationism | 7 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

Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics

Posted on May 9, 2014 by edmundberger

The following essay was originally intended for publication, but I find it to be a bit too unwieldy, and not fully articulated in the sense of coming-together that I would have hoped. I’m posting it here, however, as a sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alterity, Bataille, Bateson, counterculture, cybernetics, ektos, excess, feedback, Fluxus, Guattari, industrial, information, information technology, information theory, mail art, media, noise, noise music, noncommunication, Norbert Wiener, outsider art, self-organization, Situationism, subculture, via negativa, William Burroughs | 8 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

Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity

Posted on April 5, 2014 by edmundberger

The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water. His eyes were Riveria’s, but there was no malice there. “To call up a demon you must learn … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, animism, appropriation, Baudrillard, capitalism, Claude Shannon, communication, contagion, cut-up, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Dada, dub, Empire, Guattari, hauntology, information technology, information theory, modernism, neoliberalism, noise, Norbert Wiener, post-Fordism, post-punk, postcolonialism, postmodernism, Protocol, resistance, self-organization, Situationism, solidarity, sound, Warren Weaver, William Burroughs | 3 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

The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)

Posted on March 3, 2014 by edmundberger

The Colors of Revolution As the Cold War came to an end, undoing the critical strategic worldwide gridlock fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, globalization took off, accelerating the flows of capital, technology, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activism, Bateson, civil society, color revolution, communication, complexity theory, control, counterculture, cybernetics, Deleuze, democracy, democracy promotion, emergence, Freedom House, geopolitics, globalization, Guattari, hacking, Hardt, information technology, internet, LaRouche, military-industrial-complex, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, networks, NGOs, psychoanalysis, psychology, R.D. Laing, RAND corporation, revolution, Rockefeller Foundation, Students for a Democratic Society, swarm, Tavistock | 16 Comments

Mold/Modulation, Analog/Digital (A Handful of Deleuze Quotes)

Posted on February 23, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abstract painting, analog, Artaud, Bateson, computers, control, Deleuze, digital, discipline, Guattari, mechanosphere, modulation, mold, synthesizer | 1 Comment

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