What in the hell …

The conductivity of the ether is not to be understimated, particularly its capacity to conduct (really, to produce or increase the velocity of) rancor, and feet into mouths. (more…)

And worse, when you’re late in sending it. A translation, clearly. Or cake and beer. I don’t know how to upload cake or beer, so a translation it is. Belated birthday wishes for dear departed KM. Angela had suggested a celebratory blogweave but I found myself all wrote out - much more inclined to reading at the now - re: Marx in particular, that is. (Sorry Karl, it’s not you. It’s me. I’m just not as good at parties. I’m better w/ small dinners. And unions.) I’d be keen for some group reading and discussification, if anyone’s interested. In particular, the so-called “unpublished sixth chapter” to capital (the name escapes me offhand, the Immediate Results of the Process of Production, maybe?) and the Fragment on Machines. Any takers? I’ve started the former but not the latter. (more…)

This came over the wire on Aut-op-sy recently. Someone asked after a quote. (more…)

Dictionariat? Definitionariat?

All of these puns suck. I apologize. Please excuse my ailing sense of humor, exacerbated by the fact that I have so much fucking stupid work to do. Damn it. (more…)

Answering, of course, requires being able to say what’s old about the past and what is and is not old about the present. In the context of a longer post, Steve Shapiro at Pinocchio Theory kindly responded to my notes on Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” (more…)

As in, ’societies of control.’ (more…)

Was in lovely Canadia recently. Went with Tzuchien and Geo, met up w/ Jon and - unexpectedly - with another friend from dimension blog, and several transplant Minnesotan friends. Saw uncle Toni speak. Good times all ’round. (more…)

I don’t know. I suspect it’s a theoretical attempt to derive an allegedly new politics from an allegedly new stage, without having to critically engage with the wreckage and mistakes of prior organizational thought w/in Marxism. I may be wrong, I’m in an uncharitable mood.
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