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Tag Archives: Situationism
The Decline and Fall: Personal Reflections on Post-Left Anarchism, Occupy, and the Future of the Left
Derick Varn of Symptomatic Commentary has an interesting and brief post that asks the question “what happened to post-left anarchism?” It’s an interesting thing to pose – post-left anarchism (from henceforth “PLA”) emerged during the 1990s as a loose tendency … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, alter-globalization, autonomism, carnivalesque, civil society, globalization, Occupy, post-Left anarchism, primitivism, Situationism
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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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The Poet and the Assassin: Control and Cosmos in “A Thousand Plateaus”
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
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Tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Accelerationism, Anti-Oedipus, control, cosmos, Deleuze, Fordism, Guattari, music, networks, noise, post-Fordism, revolution, Situationism
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Informatic Guerrilla Warfare
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
The Imagined Architecture: Three Quotes
De Chirico remains one of the most remarkable architectural precursors. He was grappling with the problems of absences and presences in time and space. We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first … Continue reading
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Tagged alterity, architecture, becoming, Guy Debord, imagination, Medievalism, Niewenhuys, psychogeography, Situationism, surrealism, unitary urbanism, 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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Excess, Machine, Culture: Three Plateaus on Noise Aesthetics
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
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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
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Metropolis, Media, Mechanosphere
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
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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
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The Formula for Overthrowing the World
“The Hacienda must be built” – Ivan Chtcheglov, Formularly for a New Urbanism “From Ivan Chtcheglov’s 1953 essay “Formulary for a New Urbanism” with it’s references to Campanella (“there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”) through to Debord’s recent … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, Archizoom, Debord, occult, poetry, Situationism, Stewart Home, surrealism, urbanism, Vaneigem
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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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