Tag Archives: class struggle

Class, struggle

Posted on January 29, 2010 by reidkane

Class struggle is not, first and foremost, the struggle between classes, social classes, already constituted as such. Struggle is the ground of such social classes, be they working and owning classes or any other. It is this struggle which, situated within … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, political economics | Tagged capitalism, class struggle, Marx, proletariat, the living, undead labor, work-force | 2 Comments

Impatient Messianism

Posted on August 25, 2009 by reidkane

Messianic politics is often derided for its passivity, resignation, and ineffectuality. Yet these are not inherent vices, which I’ll attempt to demonstrate here by defending a very different sense of messianism. God’s Waiting Room Messianism is a matter of redemption. … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, futurology, hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi, para-ontology, political theology, politics, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, class struggle, communism, decay, Derrida, example, experimentality, exposure, Marx, messianism, nihilism, onto-anthropology, Paul, politics, prefigurative praxis, redemption, ruin, threshold, utopiation, Zizek | 10 Comments

Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels

Posted on August 7, 2009 by reidkane

Man Coporate. He absorbs, enfolds, encompasses, and makes the world his own. He will do more; he will penetrate the confines of space, and make it deliver up its secrets and power, for Mind, the Child of the great Oversoul … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, futurology, historical materialism, political economics, utopian science | Tagged anthropic impasse, Badiou, capitalism, class struggle, communism, control, corporatism, decay, Engels, Gillette, immanence, proletariat, science, socialism, threshold, utopia, utopiation, xenoeconomics | 6 Comments

Whose Market?

Posted on August 4, 2009 by reidkane

Which of these does not belong? One of the great distortions operative in popular discourse is the notion that capitalism is a market economy. It is not. A market operates on the basis of massive competition amongst merchants, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, political economics, politics | Tagged capitalism, class struggle, economy, non-capital, open market, politics | 2 Comments

Artificial Realism

Posted on July 23, 2009 by reidkane

Ben Noys on the agency problem in Marxism. To briefly recapitulate, there is a debate as to the relation between labor and the standpoint of critique: is labor-power a force external to capital rooted in ‘human nature’ and on the … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, planomenology | Tagged abandon, artificiality, Brassier, Bryant, capitalism, Churchland, class struggle, communism, decay, Dennett, eliminativism, ex-appropriation, Marx, Negarestani, Noys, Pepperell, proletariat, ruin, salvagepunk, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 9 Comments

Iranian Variations, Marxist Repetitions UPDATED AGAIN

Posted on June 17, 2009 by reidkane

[Images from Boston.com, via Reza] UPDATE: Anyone reading this post should supplement it, at the very least, with Reza’s brief comment’s below, and with this great piece by Ali Alizadeh’s piece here. 2nd UPDATE: See also these great pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, eventalism, hauntology, historical materialism, para-ontology, political theology, politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, capitalism, class struggle, communism, Deleuze, event, ex-appropriation, exception, Foucault, Guattari, inheritance, Iran election 09, Marx, misuse, non-capital, politics, proletariat, redemption, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 32 Comments

The Future of Philosophy (sic)

Posted on June 4, 2009 by reidkane

Nina Power: A related question. Your conception of philosophy is that it is essentially ‘empty’, but how do you see the role of philosophy with regard to this need to generate new ideas? What role does philosophy have that perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, historical materialism, politics, the real world, Uncategorized | Tagged Badiou, Benjamin, class struggle, Harman, Leiter, Marx, Nietzsche, politics, proletariat | 25 Comments

Econontolgy 1: Financial Aliens and the Great Deceleration

Posted on March 1, 2009 by reidkane

Alex has a brief but brilliant post up, in which his recent series of posts on the Hardcore Continuum dovetails with a revival of his xenoeconomic speculations from last year. To summarize, the claim is that capital operates by extracting … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, politics | Tagged abandon, accelerationism, capitalism, catastrophe, class struggle, communism, economy, econontology, non-capital, proletariat, surplus-(of-)being, xenoeconomics | 1 Comment

“I’m an anarchist. Power to the people!”

Posted on November 15, 2008 by reidkane

There is a truth to the cliche, popular amongst centrist politicians in these woeful economic times, that economic stability and ecological health are elements of national security. McCain said it, Obama said it, even Bush started leaning in this direction … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, politics | Tagged accelerationism, capitalism, class struggle, economy, Obama, politics, utopiation | Leave a comment

Schizoanalysis 2.5: Notes on Organization

Posted on November 14, 2008 by reidkane

I just want to add a few brief points to clarify the conclusion of this post. So to sum up, I see schizoanalysis as a method of developing new organizational structures within existing social groups, on the basis of a … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, politics, schizoanalysis | Tagged analytic subversion unit, analytic-machine, ancestrality, Badiou, capitalism, class struggle, communism, economy, event, inheritance, non-capital, non-signifier, politics, proletariat, schizoanalysis, social bond, utopiation, Zizek | Leave a comment