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Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici

NY Wages For Housework Poster

On the occasion of the publication of an anthology of her writing and the accession of a  Wages for Housework NY archive at Mayday Rooms in London, Marina Vishmidt interviewed Silvia Federici on her extensive contribution to feminist thought and recent work on debt activism (with contributions by Mute, Mayday Rooms and George Caffentzis)

 

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Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surveying this theoretical tendency against a backdrop of post-crisis struggles, R.L. stresses the irreconcilable antagonism of both

 

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Closing this short series of essays on the concept of Natural Beauty in Adorno’s work, originally presented in London at Historical Materialism 2012, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg excavates aesthetic experience from its bourgeois and Kantian prison

 

The figure of the constrained gives happiness because the force of constraint must not be forgotten; its images are a memento.

– Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1969.

 

Human Resolution

Harry Sanderson reflects on the economy of networked image commodities and the chains of labour which underpin their appearance

 

There is a relation, largely avoided and unexplored, between the ubiquity of digital commodities, and the capacity of these devices to reproduce and maintain a necessary insouciance towards the exploitation and violence required for their continued production.

 

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One or Many Machines

Gerald Raunig, A Thousand Machines, Boston: Semiotext(e), 2010. Reviewed by a Salad of Pearls

 

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Coastal Returns

Ellen Feiss reviews Mark Fisher and Justin Barton's installation, On Vanishing Land, at the Showroom, London

 

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In the second contribution to a series of essays on the concept of Natural Beauty in Adorno’s work, originally presented in London at Historical Materialism 2012, Tom Allen relates bourgeois 'nature' to the founding violence of judgement

 

The Land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants.

– Numbers: 13.32.

 

Abstract Human Labour Found in Food - Shock!

A Gallerte* of undifferentiated human labour has been found in ALL food. Traces of it have also been found in ALL other commodities!

Could it be that the capitalist production of commodities - meaty or vegan, comestible or otherwise - is in its entirety a form of CANNIBALISM?

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On Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Copyleft - Three Critiques of Hacktivism

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  * Wikileaks - The State Persecutes its Idealists
  * Bitcoin - Finally, Fair Money?
  * Free Property – On Social Criticism in the Form of a Software Licence

The pamphlet is available in PDF, EPUB and MOBI format at:

  http://antinational.org/en/furball-00-hacktivism

Catalysing Dissent

The 2011 UK Riots were the inspiration for this article, although what can be said of the riots also holds for the sequential outbreak of protests and revolts that erupted globally last year. Inigo Wilkins and Andrew Osborne discuss the irreversible noise and computational immanence of 21st century crowds

 

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

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By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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Proud to be Flesh

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By mute 4 November 2009

A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net ed. Josephine Berry Slater,  Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Michael Corris In late 1...

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