°operaismo/difference

March 19, 2007

The latest edition of SubStance (36:1) significantly extends the essays from (post-)Operaismo translated into English. Extracts and/or comments in due time, and ask, preferably for specific ones, if you can’t access.

–Christian Marazzi’s “Rules for the Incommensurable”
– Virno’s “On the Parasitic Character of Wage Labor”
– Negri’s “Art and Culture in the Age of Empire and the Time of the Multitudes”
– Franco Berardi’s, “Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination” and “Schizo-Economy”
– Lazarrato’s “Strategies of the Political Entrepreneur” and “The Revolutions of Capitalism”
– Antonella Corsani’s, “Beyond the Myth of Woman: The Becoming-Transfeminist of (Post-)Marxism”

Also, in the latest edition of Postmodern Culture, a video (and audio) of a conversation between Spivak and Butler, “A Dialogue on Global States, 6 May 2006″.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Reading + Multitudes + Virno + Spivak
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°Norm und Projektion

November 27, 2006

Yesterday I watched Katja Diefenbach’s contribution to the DictionaryOfWar, speaking on police war.

In that paper, she takes apart the normative fiction of a regular war, of a war regulated by and occuring between nation-states (of which Schmitt is one version), and the mourning that subsequently characterises certain discussions of a new form of war.

Filed under: Labour + War + Multitudes
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°biopolitico

October 9, 2006

Timothy Campbell’s “Bíos, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito” [pdf]. Those not familiar with Esposito’s work - (since it’s yet to be translated into English), but nevertheless following the discussions about biopolitics through Foucault, Agamben, Hardt and Negri, et al - will find it of interest, I think; as should those who want to explore Derrida’s discussions of auto-immunisation. [+]

Filed under: Biowar + Reading + Multitudes + Esposito + Agamben
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°Citizen worker

March 5, 2006

In “Why Work on Rights? Citizenship, Welfare and Property in Empire and Beyond” [Theory & Event, 8:4, 2005], Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow argue that Hardt’s and Negri’s proposition of the three rights - the rights to global citizenship, guaranteed income and reappropriation of the means of production - which are said to give expression to the political power and teleology of the multitude at the conclusion of Empire is, as they put it, fundamentally flawed.

Filed under: Labour + Multitudes + Rights
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°The empire of the known

January 27, 2006

An excerpt from “The Empire of the Known“, I think by Erik Empson, at generation_online:

[…] Whereas in Schmitt the “omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver,” in the theorisation of post-modern aleatory materialism, the multitude always unsettles representations that are based upon consent and complicity with the sovereign order. As soon as elements within the multitude act to form a people, i.e. to build upon the constituent power of the multitude to reinvent or re-authenticate the sovereign principle, they turn against it and open themselves up to a desertion in the ranks so that only the front line remains: a thin line of representation that can be sliced through and crushed. […]

Filed under: Multitudes + Democracy + materialism-aleatory
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°Chronos

December 1, 2005


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If Machiavelli suggests that the Prince, in order to grasp his fortune, needs to be half-man, half-beast (centaur), what, then, to make of the robot fortune-teller?

Filed under: Multitudes + Machiavelli
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°Enclosure, colonialisation

November 8, 2005


Clichy-sous-Bois - internment camp? Discuss.

Filed under: Internment Camps + Multitudes
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