Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
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For Deleuze, philosophy is primarily concerned with the creation of concepts, which arise in response to a concrete problem. Thus, attending to both a particular thinker and a theoretical framework implies positioning oneself upon those bridges built to unite seemingly irreconcilable spheres and, on their basis, continuing this creative labor. It is in this sense…
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By Christian Nirvana Damato Between cybernetics, psychiatry, computational neuroscience, mathematization of being, and capitalism We know that the mathematization of being is a very long-standing process, abiogenic one might say, in some ways. However, the scientific emergence of a specific desire to mechanize the mind emerged particularly in the 1950s with cybernetics, which accompanied a new computational…
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In Nietzsche Contre Heidegger (1977), Laruelle puts forward the following proposition: Nietzsche’s text should be read with a materialist lens which allows us to see the concept of Will to Power as a material(ist) force. The opposing poles of Mastery and Rebellion remain in a non-relation (or a unilateral relation), reminiscent of his later concept…
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This intervention diagnosticates the contemporary domestication of critical negativity by algorithmic infrastructure. It traces a genealogy of the Promethean impulse—from the theological dogmatism of 19th-century Russian Hegelianism and Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism to its monumentalization under Soviet Brutalism —in order to contrast it with the frictionless, predictive engineering of late capitalism. Ultimately, it investigates what thought…
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Many years ago, I visited a place called Usgalimal in the western ghats of India in order to see the pre-historic petroglyphs discovered here in 1993. These rock carvings have been dated to around 6000-8000 years ago, belonging to the mesolithic-to-neolithic turn in the subcontinent, a period which according to archeologists marks the tail-end of…
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To the depressed person, this statement might seem phantasmagorically counterintuitive. In the depressed state, the depressed person perceives time as, as Kronic argues further in the essay, a “a dead grey time in which nothing can possibly happen”, a sort of inescapable limbo between productive time and a chosen non-productive expenditure, In fact, depression expends…
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The following essay intends to address the idea of a ‘radical discontinuity’ appearing in philosopher Reza Negarestani’s development from an early theory-fictional oriented work represented in Cyclonopedia (2008), to the recent synthesis of continental and contemporary analytical philosophical perspectives found in Intelligence and Spirit (2018). With this in mind, the idea of such a ‘radical…
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Any Western attempt to philosophize from the comparative safety of their desk or office about any ongoing genocide in Gaza is a task which can only be attempted with the utmost militant analysis, as said realities being faced by the Palestinian people can in no way shape or form be simply ‘conceptualized’ or ‘theorized’ as…
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Can subjectivity survive Marxism? It depends on what is meant by “subjectivity” and “Marxism.” In a certain, important sense, we are all subjects who have survived Marxism, insofar as even the question seems outdated, its tombstone marked by the fall of the Soviet Union. But even if the geopolitical power of Stalinism has been reduced…
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Materialist philosophy confronts a persistent dichotomy: humanism versus anti-humanism. Marx embodies this split. The young Marx theorized alienation and proclaimed human-centricity in his theses on Feuerbach, a humanist gesture. The mature Marx analyzed capital’s cold mechanics, mapping the flows beneath production relations, an apparent turn from humanism. Yet throughout, Marx remained committed to one project:…
