Tag Archives: noise

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

Informatic Guerrilla Warfare

Posted on October 30, 2014 by edmundberger

Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency Traditional guerrilla activity such as bombings, snipings, and kidnapping complete with printer manifestos seems like so many ecologically risky short change feedback devices compared with the real possibilities of portable video, maverick data banks, acid metaprogramming. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged counterinsurgency, Critical Art Ensemble, cybernetics, cyberpunk, disconnection, Full Spectrum Dominance, Information Guerrilla, ludic, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, noise, noncommunication, Situationism, tactical media, Vietnam, Zapatista | 6 Comments

The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla

Posted on October 29, 2014 by edmundberger

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | 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

Jacques Attali: Noise and Power

Posted on May 21, 2014 by edmundberger

Eavesdropping, censorship, recording, and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and recording noise is at the heart of this apparatus. The symbolism of the Frozen Words, of the Tables of the Law, of recorded noise and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atalli, control, noise, power, sound, surveillance | 6 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

Tag Archives: noise

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

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

Informatic Guerrilla Warfare

The Posthuman and the Information Guerrilla

Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication

Jacques Attali: Noise and Power

Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics

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