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Posts Tagged ‘empire’
resistance
Posted in Ideas, tagged affect, anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, emergence, empire, foucault, lived communism, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, neo-liberalism, politics, singularity, state, subjectivity, war machine on July 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The domination-resistance paradigm has been replaced by modulation that de-centers power and makes it impossible to cut the head off of the king. Resisting the clutches of the school didn’t make one free of the police, or even the asylum for that matter. It was only vulnerable to entropy and sabotage. But when considered with [...]
is empire a haecceity?
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged D&G, empire, haecceity, singularity on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
if empire ain’t a thing, then is it a haecceity (a fog, a wind, a storm, a summer, an hour)? there’s all this talk about ‘the multitude’ being a haecceity. but let’s clarify our terms so we’re not caught up in ‘multitude is better than empire because it shares an ontologically privileged status’ or all [...]
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 Do not cite without permission.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 [...]
Empire’s Form
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged empire, Tiqqun on February 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
66: Empire does not confront us like a subject, facing us, but like an environment that is hostile to us.
PhD Exam Reading List
Posted in Ideas, tagged Agamben, althusser, anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, emergence, empire, foucault, guattari, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, Nancy, negri, neo-liberalism, nietzsche, politics, psychoanalysis, ranciere, schizoanalysis, singularity, sovereignty, spinoza, spivak, state, subjectivity, Tiqqun, war machine on December 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Area 1: Non-linear Historical Materialism
Michael Hardt’s Keynote @ “Empire: A Retrospective”
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged capitalism, communism, D&G, empire, foucault, hardt, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, negri, politics, sovereignty, state on November 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Talk given November 19, at the University of Pittsburgh. Short Description: Hardt decided that after the completion of the third book in the “trilogy” of Empire – Multitude – Commonwealth, he’s finally in a place where he can reflect on the whole series. He proposes two general frameworks to understand the trilogy as a general [...]
The Urbanization of Insurgency: The Potential Challenge to U.S. Army Operations
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged empire, insurgency, metropolis, militancy, rural, urban on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The likelihood of urban insurgency — irregular (i.e., guerilla or terrorist) warfare in cities — is increasing as the dual demographic trends of rapid population growth and urbanization continue to change the face of the developing world. Whereas cities once provided a relatively better standard of living for people migrating from the countryside, they are [...]
