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The future has never looked older

Tyler Coburn

Ergonomic Futures

However convincingly space agencies justify the enormous budgets, there’s one gratuitous expense: training astronauts for free fall.

Nothing under the sun, no matter how unbelievable or fantastic, is immune to the pressures of evolution. Take science-fiction. The Force, the mind meld—the entire field of psionics, for that matter—have the look of yellowing comic books, the taste of stale popcorn. They would have gone the way of the dodo, if not for the magic of capital. Hollywood has proved to be more powerful than natural selection, building menageries in the form of franchises, gilding cages for endangered ideas....

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Slavs and Tatars

To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us? OPEN
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A coffin to bury the statues of the ancestors

Clémentine Deliss

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo… OPEN
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Simon Critchley

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer. ABO

“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

Donatien Grau, James Spooner

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’” OPEN
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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

The machine remains alien to any mechanical limitation.

We really need an analysis of algorithmic conditions and their paradoxes and ambiguities that gives them an adequate framework and horizon. But instead we currently seem to be finding an algorithmic solution of the algorithmic, much as digital solutions are being offered for the problems of the digital public sphere, in the way that IT corporations, for example, use exclusively mathematical procedures to evaluate and delete “fake news,” inappropriate portrayals, or the violation of personal rights. This tends to result in a circularity that leaves the drawing of boundaries and raising of barriers solely to programming, instead of restoring them to our ethical conscience and understanding of what the social could mean today. The machine, by contrast, remains alien to any mechanical limitation—just as its inability to decide lies in the impossibility of self-calculation. The nucleus of digital culture should instead be sought where the cultural of culture is located:...

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From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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communication media
communication
linguistics
science fiction
utopia
semiotics and semiology

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Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

minima oeconomica

Anthology

Instabilität als Logik der Finanzmärkte selbst

Dass die momentane Krise der Finanzmärkte auch eine Krise der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sei, liest man derzeit immer wieder. Der Marktliberalismus und seine Theorie der »effizienten Märkte« seien gescheitert, es gebe in der ökonomischen Orthodoxie kein Instrumentarium, um »wilde Märkte« zu verstehen – die offenkundig Realität sind. Wie aber lassen sich Instabilitäten...

Hyman P. Minsky

Instabilität und Kapitalismus

Monograph

« C'est le médecin qui a inoculé la maladie à son patient. »

L’affirmation selon laquelle la crise des marchés financiers implique une crise des sciences économiques est presque devenue un lieu commun : le libéralisme des marchés et la théorie des « marchés efficaces » auraient échoué et l’économie orthodoxe n’aurait créé aucun dispositif pour appréhender les « marchés sauvages » qui,...

Hyman P. Minsky

L'hypothèse d'instabilité financière

Monograph

Wert, Tausch und menschliches Handeln

Wenn wir keine kühl kalkulierenden Wesen sind, die für sich selbst das Maximum an Macht, Vergnügen und materiellem Wohlstand zu akkumulieren versuchen, was sind wir dann?

David Graeber

Die falsche Münze unserer Träume

Monograph

Gedanken zu Kredit und Krise

Krise – kaum ein Begriff hat in jüngster Zeit eine solche Konjunktur erlebt, doch kann die inflationäre Rede von Banken- und Finanzkrise kaum darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der globale ökonomische Kollaps mehr untergraben hat als unser Vertrauen in den Markt allein: Wir erleben derzeit eine veritable Glaubenskrise, die das Wertesystem der...

Samuel Weber

Geld ist Zeit

Topics

Autofiction—Metafiction
- fiction
- memory
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
- autofiction
The Subject of Capitalism
- capitalism
- cognitive capital
- subjectification
- migration

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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

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concentration camp
political aesthetics
contemporary art
propaganda
National Socialism
gift
ethics
documenta
Poland
migration

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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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»Three hundred people left The House that Jack Built. I think that’s very good, and it wasn’t Cannes.« ABO DE

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream OPEN
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Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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Books

Alexander Kluge, Joseph Vogl: Soll und Haben

Tom McCarthy: Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

Gertrud Koch: Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even

Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud 1937 Apocalypse

A dialogue that doesn’t cover up its traces

David Graeber

Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Anarchism is about the possibility of a crowd becoming smarter.

There’s endless literature on the mob or “the madness of crowds”, and most people do assume that any kind of crowd is necessarily going to be, collectively, stupider than any one of the individuals that make it up. That’s why most people accept the legitimacy of authoritarian leadership. If this were really true, it stands to reason that if you took even any one random person out of the crowd and made that person dictator, the crowd would make better...

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