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Tag Archives: Hardt
The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla
The Posthuman Steve Hickman has a great new post up over at Dark Ecologies, musing on the inevitable transition taking place around us, a fractal mutation at the center of the question of what it means to be human in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, Arthur Kroker, Asger Jorn, Bataille, communication guerilla, cybernetic guerilla warfare, cybernetics, drift culture, Empire, globalization, Hardt, Hegel, Information Guerrilla, internet, Luther Blissett, multitude, Negri, neoliberalism, noise, Peirce, post media, post-Fordism, posthuman, postmodernism, Situationist, tactical media, Thirdness, transhumanism, triolectics
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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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Swarm Intermezzo: Meditations on the Ether
1. When we perceive the movement of the swarm, what is being witnessed is a certain diagram of action derived from the organizational properties of the distributed network. At this level, we take the shifts and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bataille, bomb, complexity theory, computers, contagion, control, cybernetics, Empire, ether, global microstructures, Hardt, information technology, internet, irrationality, modulation, money, Negri, neoliberalism, networks, NSA, piracy, Protocol, RAND, rationalization, surveillance, swarm
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The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)
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
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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
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Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun
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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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
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Between the Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Civil Society: The Structures of Imperial Protocol
In several past posts, I’ve looked at different ways in which Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s hypothesis of Empire, the current transnational order, is composed and operates through its various methodologies and influences. In one of these, Life in the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AFL-CIO, civil society, control, Council on Foreign Relations, democracy, democracy promotion, Empire, Ford Foundation, Fordism, Freedom House, globalization, Hardt, internet, Keynesianism, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, Protocol, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Democrats USA, transnational capitalist class, transnational state apparatus, Trilateral Commission
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Notes on Empire as an Environment
Institutional Structure of Empire Empire is the transnational capitalist state; the embodiment of the capital flows that move across the smooth surfaces of the globe, the elite figures whose class cannot truly be locked into a national framework, the subordination … Continue reading
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Tagged biopower, bomb, book organization, control, corporation, counterculture, Deleuze, elites, Empire, ether, Guattari, Hardt, internet, intervention, micropolitics, money, Negri, neoliberalism, post-Fordism, postmodernism, schizophrenia, subjectivity, transnational politics, urbanism
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Postmodern Passages: The Construction of the Body
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
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Tagged affect, becoming, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, hybridity, Lacan, Massumi, modernism, Negri, postcolonialism, postmodernism, structuralism, subjectivity, the body, transhumanism, warfare
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New Accelerationism and Imperial Protocol
Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek have recently unveiled their “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics,” announcing the much-needed revitalization of the concept and dragging it out of the fractured quagmire that Nick Land’s philosophy (intentionally) put it. They offer some short … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, biopolitics, Empire, Hardt, internet, Negri, neoliberalism, Nick Land, Protocol
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Life in the Shadow of Protocol
I’ve been reading Alexander Galloway’s excellent Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, which explores what he terms the “protocological” apparatuses of control, or the invisible mechanisms of power that hide behind the horizontally organized distributed networks that define the workings … Continue reading
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Tagged biopolitics, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, internet, Israel/Palestine, Negri, networks, post-Fordism, Protocol, rhizome, swarm, warfare
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Deterritorial Investigations 