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Tag Archives: Protocol
Sketches on Mutant Design (or, Situationism at the after party)
[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
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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
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Sound Hacking: Further Reflections on Noise and Noncommunication
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
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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
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Broken Circuits
Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They’re thoroughly permeated by money—and not by accident but by their very nature. We’ve got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles of noncommunication, … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Dark Deleuze, Deleuze, Geert Lovink, internet, Negri, new media, New York School, noncommunication, NSA, post media, Protocol, resistance, Snowden
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Cut it Up and Start Again: Dub Soundscapes and Aesthetic Solidarity
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
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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
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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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Galloway’s “Control Matrix”
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
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Tagged contagion, control, discipline, Empire, hypertrophy, irrationality, modernism, noise, postmodernism, Protocol, randomness, silence, the future
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Laruelle
Originally posted on Anarchist Without Content:
I was recently convinced that Laruelle may be the key to theorizing new work in the digital, the withdrawal from representation, and a politics beyond Deleuze. To begin, I’m reading Philosophies of Difference, The…
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Tagged communication, control, Deleuze, Guattari, hypertrophy, Laruelle, media, New York School, post media, Protocol, silence, technology
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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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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 