![The Timescale for the destruction of Capitalism is announced today
futurescope:
DARPA funds 100 Year Starship to develop human interstellar flight capabilities
An ambitious effort for an interstellar travel planning organization officially kicked off this week, after DARPA awarded $500,000 to form the 100-Year Starship initiative. Former astronaut Mae Jemison, whose proposal was selected earlier this year, will lead the new independent organization. The goal is to ensure that the capability for human interstellar travel exists within the next 100 years. […]
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The Timescale for the destruction of Capitalism is announced today
futurescope:
DARPA funds 100 Year Starship to develop human interstellar flight capabilities
An ambitious effort for an interstellar travel planning organization officially kicked off this week, after DARPA awarded $500,000 to form the 100-Year Starship initiative. Former astronaut Mae Jemison, whose proposal was selected earlier this year, will lead the new independent organization. The goal is to ensure that the capability for human interstellar travel exists within the next 100 years. […]
[read more @popsci | @gizmag] [100 Year Starship] [Project Icarus] [image credit: Adrian Mann]
finally i surrended to my rough notes, my draft instead of thinking…
The strong reader places the work read in proximity to his own, which requires a minimal amount of empathy, but also at a distance, in order to remain within the ambit of his own problem” Jean-Jacques Lecercle (2012).
The intention here is to consider the below differently and I will return to the question Hegelian-Marxism and Deleuze on another occasion.
“The notion of a toolbox of concepts was introduced some decades ago by Pierre-Félix Guattari, and since then, has lent itself to all sorts of uses and abuses. Some, for example, have assumed that with such a toolbox, anything goes, even if concepts contradict each other in the theory upon which these are founded. Consider, for instance, the conjunction of Hegelian dialectics with the profoundly anti-Hegelian works of both Deleuze and Guattari. So, let us refer directly to Guattari’s writings on the toolbox for clarity’s sake….” @khaoid (
http://mattermedia.tumblr.com/post/23153316102/pierre-felix-guattari-uses-and-abuses-of-the )
For now I’ll restrict myself to the difference in understanding the purposes of philosophy that are contained in the difference on display in the ‘toolbox of concepts’ obviouslyI do not accept and use the meaning and intention that is being argued for above. The difference and caveat is that I am not interested in the uncritical reading which asks to allow Guattari and Deleuze to define the ground on which we stand. An uncritical reading which believes and propagates the notion that the writers have the right to define a concept as being ‘x’ in perpetuity.
This understandably avoids the history and meaning of the strong readings that so much of Deleuze’s work comprises. (Readings that always require the reader to engage in detailed investigation to ascertain whether they accept their readings). I am not personally interested in maintaining understandings which overtly refuse the tools necessary to understand our societies. It is pointless to remain within the line of thought that Deleuze and Guattari produced - rather it is legitimate to argue that we need a stronger reading which contains and maintains a critique of the line of thought, in this case the “toolbox of concepts” and pushes the logic closer to being usable. ”The concepts of art, like those of analysis, come out of this tool box of modelisation” (Guattari). A stronger reading which is rather clearly legitimated by Deleuze’s own mis-reading practice… Given my particular interest in that most Hegelian-Marxist concept of the the #spectacle and that I am currently largely uninterested in art(which is so intensely over-commodified as to be largely valueless), if not in aesthetics.
I think it should be clear why a toolbox is not a question that can ever be understood as being “the components of a toolbox are machined together without contradiction” assuggested. For contrary to this purer approach a user of tools may understand for example, that there is a contradiction between understanding the network society and its machinery as being the current operating instance of the #spectacle and the structures defined by the theorist. That the contradiction may have to be maintained and lived with as we, with our particular requirements and interests need to use Deleuze and Guattari as well as Irigary, Debord, Lukacs, Hegel and Spinoza…
This is not a model…
#toolbox
#spectacle
#difference
post-fordism, financialisation and fordism
“The transition from the Fordist mode of production to “stock managerial capitalism” which is at the basis of today’s financial capitalism, is in fact explained by the drop in profits (around 50%) between the 1960s and the 1970s due to the exhaustion of technological and economic foundations of Fordism, particularly by the market saturation of mass consumption goods, the rigidity f production processes, constant capital and the politically ”downwardly rigid” working wage. At the height of its development (i.e. the relationship between constant and variable capital), Fordist capital was no longer able to “suck” surplus-value from working-class living labour.” Christian #Marazzi 2011, The Violence of Financial Capitalism P 30.
The shift from Fordism to Post-Fordism, which might also be considered from a different Marxist perspective as the change from the Keynesian post-war consensus to the neo-liberal era… does suggest that similarities do exist between the Marxism of Marazzi and the Keynes-Marx synthesis…
With neoliberalism we know how it went forward “… reduction in the cost of labour, attacks on unions, automatisation and robotisation of entire labour processes, delocalisation to countries with low wages, precarization of labour and diversification of consumption models. And of course finalization, i.e. profit increase not as excess from sales over costs (that is not in accordance with manufacturing-Fordist logic) but as excess value in the stock-market…. the financialization of the economy has been a process of recovering capitals profitability after a period of profit margin decreases, an apparatus to enhance capital’s profitability outside immediately productive processes…” Christian #Marazzi 2011.
Or to put it more purely neither Fordism, post-Fordism nor Neoliberalism were really about principles or ideology but a social order aiming at increasing the power and income of the ruling classes. Ideology in this sense (and there are many senses of the concept)… Ideology in this sense is a political instrument. And here even allowing for the different lines of marxist thought that produce the concepts - Fordism, post-Fordism and Neoliberalism all have the same objectives - to work in favour of the ruling classes.
#spectacle
#fordism
#post-fordism
#marxism
#Marazzi
Zizek’s Less Than Nothing…
The Hegel book has a UK publication date of late May according to Blackwells. I was hoping that it would be available by now… but i suppose it’s still travelling across the Atlantic in a slow network container, somewhere….
#network
#Hegek
#Zizek
#spectacle
Ideology, Science, Religion, the Economic
“The power of an ideology is not only measured by the answers it can provide but by the questions that it is able to suppress…” Gunther Anders in 1956…
Now we can see that we need only understand this phrase when looking at the dominant ideologies within capitalism, in our own societies. That extending its reach into those understandings which aim at a purer critique of capitalism, of liberal parliamentary democracy is unnecessary. Because we now that what is going to be suppressed must be… When applied to the ideologies of the scientific, political, economic and religious it works only to well…
#ideology
#discourse
#capitalism
#spectacle
Communism is not the same as material abundance
“….that petit-bourgeious vision of atrophied communism having no other goal than the extension of the bourgeois spectacle to all of the proletariat.…” Attali (1984)
What communism is, is the conquest of their own body and potentials, It is impossible without a level of material abundance, rationed and distributed evenly, and a certain technological level, but is not reducible to this.
#spectacle
#communism
in the Culture Industry:
Aesthetic barbarism today is accomplishing what has threatened intellectual formations since they were brought together as culture and neutralised. To speak about culture always went against the grain of culture… Horkheimer and Adorno - The Culture Industry: enlightenment…
Horkheimer and Adorno are at the beginning of understanding and defining mass culture through its most important advertising function, through which cultural objects are advertisements for consumption. We are way beyond such niceties of thinking of ‘mass culture’ in these terms… for us all cultural production exists in the site of barbarism, mass culture is simply worse than they could imagine.
#Horkheimer and Adorno
#spectacle
#terror
Noise and …
Thus in the case of the media, traditional resistance consists of reinterpreting messages according to the groups own code and for its own ends. The masses, on the contrary, accept everything and redirect everything en bloc into the spectacular, without requiring any other code, without requiring any meaning, ultimately without resistance, but making everything slide into an indeterminate sphere which is not even that of non-sense, but that of overall manipulation/fascination. ( Baudrillard 1984)
#noise
#spectacle
#multitude
#masses
The never existing cyborg dream…
“… Zaibatsu’s flip into sentience as the market melts to automatism, politics is cryogenized and dumped into liquid-helium…”#Land.
Except no, the dismantling of Kant didn’t happen, things didn’t accelerate… and the shock of the old remains rather strangely appropriate…
#spectacle
#noise looking at a text by Baudrillard because of some memory that seemed relevant I find this image from Eisenstein’s strike… a strike breaker emerges from Deleuze and Guattari’s holey space…
"we need to remember how little life is worth in the eyes of power"
Marazzi, Capital & Affects, p150 (via
rykalski)
