Tag Archives: xenoeconomics

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

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

Econontology 2: Zombie Banks, Undead Labor, and Dark Vitalism

Posted on March 4, 2009 by reidkane

If there is a tangible threat posed to our economic existence, it is that of the Zombie Banks, the massive credit institutions whose balance sheets are so disproportionately weighted with ‘toxic assets’ or dead capital that they essentially function as … Continue reading →

Posted in hauntology, historical materialism, politics, the real world, Uncategorized | Tagged ancestrality, capitalism, creaturely life, dark vitalism, economy, econontology, ex-appropriation, inheritance, non-capital, surplus-(of-)being, undead labor, xenoeconomics, zombie banks | 3 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

Paper Abstract – Strange Times: Aliens, Ghosts, and the Non-Event

Posted on November 22, 2008 by reidkane

This is my paper proposal for the CFP here, for the conference Affirmation, Negation, and the Politics of Late-Capitalism. Any questions or comments on the project are welcome.

Posted in eventalism, hauntology, politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged accelerationism, Agamben, ancestrality, Badiou, Benjamin, capitalism, Derrida, economy, event, historicity, Marx, Meillassoux, non-capital, non-event, politics, proletariat, retrograde temporality, specter, speculative realism, xenoeconomics | Leave a comment

Notes for the Debate: Alien vs. Specter

Posted on October 27, 2008 by reidkane

I want to briefly sketch out how hauntology, or the particular revision of it I have been working on, not only relates to but is ultimately indispensable for a xenoeconomic approach to capitalism. I am still finishing a more detailed … Continue reading →

Posted in hauntology, non-phi, politics, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, capitalism, class struggle, communism, Derrida, economy, foreclosure, inexistence, inheritance, Lacan, Laruelle, Marx, Meillassoux, non-capital, politics, proletariat, psymbolic, redemption, schizoanalysis, social bond, specter, speculative realism, undead labor, xenoeconomics | 2 Comments

Economic Alien(ation)

Posted on October 20, 2008 by reidkane

With all of the philo-gossip about the crisis, the revenge of Marx, the relation between crisis and political transformation, blah blah blah, I think the most thrilling echo I’ve heard came by way of Mark at k-punk, in his post … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, politics, schizoanalysis | Tagged accelerationism, ancestrality, class struggle, crisis 08, economy, non-phi, politics, redemption, schizoanalysis, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 3 Comments

Bartleby on Main Street (Schizoanalysis 2)

Posted on October 14, 2008 by reidkane

How does this economic crisis, and crises more generally, relate to emancipatory change? There is a small contention concerning whether crisis can lead to a ‘lack of faith’ in capitalism, up to the point of breeding antipathy and discontent great … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, politics, schizoanalysis | Tagged abandon, accelerationism, analytic-machine, ancestrality, Bartleby politics, class struggle, communism, crisis 08, economy, foreclosure, Marx, non-capital, politics, proletariat, redemption, schizoanalysis, social bond, undead labor, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 5 Comments

Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Toward Capitalism?

Posted on October 10, 2008 by reidkane

During the second presidential debate, on October 7, 2008, there was a point where Tom Brokaw asked both candidates whether they thought the economy was going to get worse before it got better. Each responded by essentially saying that no, … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, politics, schizoanalysis | Tagged abandon, accelerationism, capitalism, class struggle, communism, crisis 08, economy, election 08, non-capital, politics, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 1 Comment