“You Wanna a Job Right?” The “hacker group” Anonymous intends to disrupt or shutdown the Iowa Caucuses by targeting campaign offices in Des Moines with a sit-in on caucus night. Anonymous cites corporations and the complicity of both major parties driving “millions” of people into “poverty.” Anonymous, already linked to OWS, is encouraging OWS [...]
President Obama phrased the death of Gaddafi the removal of a “dark shadow.” While darkness and light are the most generic of philosophistry, it is congruent with Agamben’s profanation of apparatuses, that is, “to bring them to light the Ungovernable, which is the beginning and, at the same time, the vanishing point of every politics.” [...]
This was the first image I saw yesterday, heading the website of one of the major Dutch newspapers. At that moment I could only marvel at the image, at its composition, the imbroglio of body parts, the technical data that articulated its technological framing, and the white face with black holes as eyes, nose, and [...]
Berardi states “[m]oney (i.e. economics) and the State (i.e. politics) are no longer able to govern or discipline the world of production, now that its center is not a de-brained force, a uniform and quantifiable time of manual work. That center is now occupied by mind flows, by the ethereal substance of intelligence, which eludes [...]
To continue the ongoing exchange with A. Staley Groves on the issues of language in relation to the OWS movement and its subsidiaries, Groves pointed out in his last blog post that we are both inquiring “about the broader phenomenon of occupation moving throughout this economic ‘order,’ i.e. ‘global’ capitalism and whether or not the [...]
When it comes to language and creative clearing, and more importantly the “idea of order,” Vincent and I have a bit of recent history. It is in the spirit of clearing that I am thinking my response. First, the creative clearing, the “destructive character” in relation to pure force beset by ‘power’ or a [...]
I had this thought when the Tea Party began: they were a joke. This is now underscored by the vaporization of their extremist candidates for president and the poor health of the media when it comes to tensing out their real base of power, the limited audience of financial backers. One assumes when it comes [...]