Take capitalism. It consists of moving elements such as the relative freedom of capital, contractual labor, the commodity form, and market/anti-market forces. But this complex (or “axiomatic” as Gilles Deleuze would call it) is both incomplete by itself and connected to other force-fields upon which it depends or which may intrude upon it. These include [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Capitalism: Open System, Collection of Processes
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged capitalism, D&G, deleuze, emergence, neo-liberalism on March 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Outline of “Apparatus of Capture” Plateau – Deleuze and Guattari
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged capitalism, D&G, deleuze, dialectics, emergence, empire, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, molar, negri, nomos, politics, singularity, sovereignty, spinoza, state, subjectivity, war machine on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Thousand Plateaus: “Capture” Outline by “Anarchist Without Content” PDF here. Draft copy. Do not cite without permission. Please email comments or suggestions.
empire ain’t a thing
Posted in Ideas, tagged anarchism, communism, communization, D&G, empire, materialism, micro-politics, politics, Tiqqun, war machine on March 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“An international ecumenical org does not process from an imperial center that imposes itself upon and homogenizes an exterior milieu; neither is it reducible to relations between St8s, for example (the League of nations, the United Nations). On the contrary, it constitutes an intermediate milieu between the different coexistent orders. Therefore it is not exclusively [...]
prolegomena to any future engineering
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged marx on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. Karl Marx, Capital [...]
The Geometry of Revolution
Posted in Ideas, tagged emergence, Laroche, materialism, nomos, politics, revolution, sovereignty, war machine on March 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The openings created by the Maya Prophecies for 2012 mark a political and cultural challenge to the onto-theological metaphysics deeply embedded within European thought that have long blackmailed revolutionary possibilities. In this talk I will briefly interrogate how to crack the thin veneer of vulgar revolution to open a path that makes ‘steps’ toward true [...]
The Phenomenology of the Resonance-Reverberation Doublet
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged bachelard, resonance on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Political Acoustics? Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space: to go so far and so deep, [we] must go beyond the sentimental resonances with which we receive (more or less richly – whether this richness be within ourselves or within the poem) a work of art. This is where the phenomenological doublet of resonance [...]
clarifying affect
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged affect, architecture, deleuze, milieu on March 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The traditional framework of robot motion planning is based on manipulating a robot through a workspace while avoiding collisions with the obstacles in this space. Our application of motion planning, on the other hand, is aimed at determining potential paths that a robot (or ligand) may naturally take based on the energy distribution of its workspace. Hence, instead of [...]
