Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Karl Marx
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On Somnambulism and Structural Causality
The dominant tradition of ideological critique has struggled with this problem since at least Mannheim, who understood ideology as a kind of socially conditioned distortion, a partial perspective mistaken for a total one. The correction was, in principle, available: the free-floating intellectual. Marx’s own formulations oscillate between ideology as inverted image and ideology as material…
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Suicidal Fascism in the Age of Algorithm
Deleuze & Guattari’s most revolutionary political claim is that fascism is not the opposite of liberatory desire but its nearest neighbor — a line of flight turned suicidal, the same destratifying impulse that elsewhere produced life, mobilized instead toward abolition. Microfascism is the name for this tendency at its most intimate source: not in the…
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From the Jewish Question to the Palestine Question
Firstly, what is the Jewish Question? In its simplest form, the question goes along the lines of: “What are we to do with the Jews?” Secondly, who asks the Jewish Question? Whom does it target? Historically speaking, the “we” that requires the Jews as the object of “our” question is the modern, nominally secular, European…
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The Concept of Machinic Materialism
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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Stolen Subjects: Exploitation, Alienation, and Subjectivity
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 In a certain, important sense, we are all subjects who have survived Marxism, insofar as even the question seems outdated, its tombstone marked by the fall of the Soviet Union.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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Inhumanist Marxism
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:…
