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Tag Archives: subjectivity
Mathematical Man
The Turing test always rested on the presumption that we have some obvious and clear example of the pre-computerized subject against which to compare the ambiguous example. But we are made by and of our media, our computers. There no … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, game theory, Mathematical Man, neoliberalism, subjectivity
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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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3 Quotes on the Refusal of Labor
Behind the glorification of “work” and the tireless talk of the “blessings of work” I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At bottom, one feels now … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomism, individualism, Krisis, labor, Nietzsche, refusal of work, Situationism, subjectivity
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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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Ghosts of Our Pasts: Neoliberal Crisis and Subjectivity (Part 2 of 2)
Confronted with the fears and pessimism of financial instability, where does the individual turn to fight back? Not to capitalism, the unnameable Thing, for it appears much too large, too complex, for any one individual to rebel against. Maybe then … Continue reading
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Tagged Deleuze, fascism, Fight Club, Fordism, Guattari, Hegel, modernism, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, Oedipus, postmodernism, subjectivity, Zizek
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Ghosts of Our Pasts: Neoliberal Subjectivity and Crisis (Part 1 of 2)
In the moments of globalization, we find ourselves simultaneously at the fusion point of five distinct scales of experience: the intimate (the level of personal/interpersonal experience); territorial (the level of local experience); the national (the level of state experience); the … Continue reading
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Tagged Baudrillard, counterculture, H.P. Lovecraft, Hegel, Lacan, neoliberalism, Rimbaud, Situationism, subjectivity
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Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos)
The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerationism, art, autonomism, Baudrillard, Bifo, CCRU, cybernetics, cyberpunk, Deleuze, Guattari, Hardt, internet, Lyotard, Negri, neoliberalism, Nick Land, rave culture, states, subjectivity
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Deterritorial Investigations 