on account of an article rejection. Anyone have a venue for a paper on comparative materialisms v/v Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “the virtual” and communism?
Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’
No writing today…
Posted in Ideas, tagged capitalism, communism, D&G, deleuze, marxism, materialism on April 24, 2013 | 7 Comments »
Disemboweling the Metropolis (complete)
Posted in dissertation, tagged anarchism, anarchy, apparatus of capture, bergson, biopolitics, biopower, capitalism, communication, communism, control, D&G, debord, deleuze, empire, flows, lefebvre, life, machines, micropolitics, milieu, noir, philosophy, police, policing, power, revolution, sovereignty, The Metropolis, the police, the spectacle, theory, theory noir on February 26, 2013 | 2 Comments »
This post contained an draft version of a dissertation section. A more recent version is now available on the works page.
Existence 2: Empire is management
Posted in dissertation, tagged anarchism, biopower, call, capitalism, communism, crisis, D&G, deleuze, difference, empire, management, politics, power, the spectacle, the state, Tiqqun on February 5, 2013 | 1 Comment »
This post contained an draft version of a dissertation section. A more recent version is now available on the works page.
Escape: A Talk
Posted in public scholarship, tagged anarchism, anonymity, biopower, capitalism, communism, control, D&G, deleuze, empire, escape, foucault, insurrection, materialism, micro-politics, micropolitics, militancy, politics, power, sovereignty, subjectivity, the police, the social, the state, Tiqqun, war machine on January 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This following talk was presented last week at the 2012 North American Anarchist Studies Network conference. The Q/A period was perhaps more interesting than my talk. If you look around, you’ll find the videos.
Today, I will do three things:
1) Sketch a model of the State
2) Outline our terrain of struggle
and 3) Fill your arsenal with a few political weapons
This paper is a gloss of my current writing project, which is entitled Escape. Like many, I love stories of leaving it all behind, whether those are tales of fed-up employees quitting their jobs, restless romantics hitting the road, or the enraged laying waste to the civilization around them. Yet my thinking about escape originated from an academic interest that began after reading a curious comment early on in the popular book on “running to the hills,” James C Scott’s “The Art of Not Being Governed.” (more…)
Prelude (edited)
Posted in dissertation, tagged anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, empire, escape, foucault, guattari, insurrection, lenin, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, militancy, politics, power, singularity, sovereignty, state, subjectivity, the social, the state, Tiqqun, war machine on September 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post contained an draft version of a dissertation section. A more recent version is now available on the works page.
Ghost Stories & Nightmares Published
Posted in Ideas, tagged affect, anarchism, capitalism, communism, dreams, labor, micro-politics, nightmares, politics, power, psychoanalysis, resistance, revolution, sabotage, schizoanalysis, war machine on August 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Please check out this wonderful new publication, Three Word Chant, by the folks at Giles Corey Press.
If you like what you see, please consider donating some startup funds to get the print version of their summer catalogue off the ground.
A Prelude to Escape
Posted in dissertation, tagged anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, empire, escape, foucault, guattari, insurrection, lenin, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, militancy, politics, power, singularity, sovereignty, state, subjectivity, the social, the state, Tiqqun, war machine on July 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This post contained an draft version of a dissertation section. A more recent version is now available on the works page.
Class Hatred
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged capitalism, class hatred, communism, insurrection, politics, ultra-rich on July 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Escape For Non-Experts
Posted in dissertation, tagged affect, anarchism, capitalism, communism, D&G, empire, escape, foucault, freedom, invisibility, literature, micropolitics, neo-liberalism, power, revolution, state, the social, war machine on June 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My dissertation charts the political imaginary of freedom by way of the problem of escape. The project begins with a question: how does escape remain a political concept in a world that has been hemmed in by modern distance-demolishing technologies (cars, planes, modern weapons, and now information technology like the internet and global positioning systems)? Specifically, I propose three major themes that show how changes in the way people escape foreshadow larger societal transformations. The first is how anonymity reshapes interaction in the overlap of digital media and urban living. The second is how sound metaphors explain new types of social action. And the third is the way recent subcultures entice their members to change identities, or even attempt to abandon labels altogether.
The methods I use in this study are drawn from philosophy, social science, and literature. In particular, I use the cultural philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, recent anthropologies of state formation, and twentieth-century literary theories of social action.
I advance Deleuze and Guattari’s provocative idea of drift, which enables me to pose hypotheses about potential societal transformations that do not require a bloody political revolution that seizes the government. For raw material to test the idea, I look to anthropologies of government for historical examples of actually existing people who ‘ran to the hills’ in order to escape abuses of state power. Lastly, I identify key literary and artistic texts that cover the theme of escape: from ‘drop outs,’ to runaways, to the criminal underground.
Ultimately, I consider if running to the hills has been replaced by burrowing deeper into urban centers. And, to fully understand the effects of the shift in escape from running away to a kind of internal exodus, I look to recent changes in modern life.
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