Tag Archives: modernism

Altermodernity and Modes of Knowledge

Posted on January 9, 2016 by edmundberger

Modernity: Capitalist and Socialist When we speak of a multi-scaled, meshworked subject such as the Marxist proletariat or the post-Autonomist’s “multitude”, we instantly confront ourselves with a host of problems. The first of these is the distribution of these agents … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, altermodernity, Bogdanov, colonialism, folk knowledge, knowledge, Lenin, Marxism, metis, modernism, modernization, science, Soviet Union, Stalin, technics | 9 Comments

Learning the Future: Bogdanov, Neurath, and Scientific Socialism

Posted on December 29, 2015 by edmundberger

Socialism has had a sort of poor track record as of late when it comes to science and technology. From Stalin’s violent repression of Mendelian genetics (and privileging of the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko) to the modern contemporary contingencies of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged altermodernism, Bogdanov, complexity, culture, cybernetics, education, Futurism, Mach, Marxism, modernism, Neurath, p2p, partner state, socialism, socialism21c, Soviet Union, systems theory | 1 Comment

The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism

Posted on April 1, 2015 by edmundberger

In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons of thought that move the unifies social forces. “…it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anthropocene, climate change, information technology, infrastructure, modernism, neoliberalism, networks, postmoernism | 4 Comments

The Conditions of Post-Postmodernity

Posted on November 8, 2014 by edmundberger

Note: In each triad, the first figure represents modernism, the second figure postmodernism, and the third the woefully tacky-sounding post-postmodernism. It should be noted that just as postmodernism emerged from within modernism while also against it, maintaining a balance between … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Baudrillard, media, modernism, nomadism, post-postmodernism, postmodernism | 6 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

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

Galloway’s “Control Matrix”

Posted on December 23, 2013 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged contagion, control, discipline, Empire, hypertrophy, irrationality, modernism, noise, postmodernism, Protocol, randomness, silence, the future | Leave a comment

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

Whither Situationism? (Intellectual Gridlock and the Control Society)

Posted on May 31, 2013 by edmundberger

While detouring into the foray of art/anti-art/non-art as a mechanism for prompting social change or sustaining radical currents, I’ve been rereading a lot of material that emerged in the heyday of modernity, and I’ve been stuck with the sense of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Accelerationism, activism, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari, modernism, postmodernism, Sadie Plant, Situationism | 4 Comments