The task of the revolutionary is violence: contrary thoughts on Zizek and Badiou
The task of the revolutionary is indeed to be violent, but also to avoid the type of violence that is, in fact, merely an impotent passage à l’acte.Slavoj Žižek | Interview | Divine Violence and...
View Articleclass, experience and affect
Some rather peculiar argument has broken out amongst some of the radical philosopher types in the blogosphere, apparently kicked off, in part at least, by the comments of a blogger called ’k-punk’...
View ArticleNames, categories and the limitations they impose (slightly oblique example...
This excellent example of the way categories or names prescribe our way of conceiving or thinking through problem came through the nettime email list recently. On 29/09/2007, Thijs wrote: > “[…] In...
View ArticleNecessity and empiricism via Kierkegaard
The first three elements in Fear and Trembling are the ‘preface’, the ‘attunement’ and the ‘exordium’. In the preface Kierkegaard makes an almost direct, if somewhat ironic and sarcastic, appeal to the...
View ArticleThe problem of the program
Notes on revolutionary Marxism The central tenets. (beginning from the ‘Founding Statement’ of the Trotskyist group ‘Permanent Revolution’ to be found online at...
View ArticleInterest and desire
Larvalsubjects has an interesting post on Marx in the academy over here which has generated a lively discussion in which, perhaps unsurprisingly, the question of agency has risen to the fore again....
View ArticleBlu19
This is an old Real audio radio programme I made. I’ve been thinking of doing some more work with sound and so dug this out and had a listen and I still find it interesting, so it has an audience of 1...
View ArticleWe’re all pretty fucked…we must dream and demonstrate the new reality.
With new protests against the fees and cuts being made to Higher Education planned for this Wednesday on what’s being called ‘Day X’ (more information here) it’s necessary to avoid getting drowned in...
View ArticleReading Capital (notes #1-Beginning with the commodity)
The opening line of Capital begins like an axiomatic that will subsequently orientate the work, stating the relationship between wealth in capitalist societies and the role of the commodity. Wealth...
View ArticleConcrete communism – the problem of the cell and the new organism
There is an interesting article on the The Commune website about theorising and imagining a post-capitalist society – take a peek over here. I agree with the emphasis the author has on the problem of...
View ArticleInterview about Rhizomatic #1
I was recently interview via email about the film I made a decade or so ago about an anarchist arts-activist squat. The documentary is available in various places, it was published in the Deleuzian...
View ArticleSpeak truth to power and let us think again
In the face of neo-liberal austerity there often appears little real hope that another world is possible. Mainstream political parties form their new consensus around the orthodoxy of market...
View ArticleSome thoughts on democracy and the death of Tony Benn
Just like the word 'communism' the concept of 'democracy' is so deeply tainted by its association with capitalism that we face a dangerous problem.
View ArticleMolecular revolution – on the question of organisation
I gave this 'paper' at a recent workshop in London organised by a seminar of philosophers, psychoanalysts and artists.
View ArticleMaking a body that questions
Lecture notes from a session on Fanon held at Goldsmiths University, 13th November.
View ArticleAs an introduction to schizo-analysis: responding to ‘The Anti-Oedipus...
(First published Jan 1st 2007, minor edits made. Republishing Oct 3rd 2019, as I start my second run of the course ‘Schizoanalysis for Beginners’). There is a background to every text, a life, a...
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