Reconsidering the classic symbol of worker militancy The classic symbol of communism is the hammer and sickle, two instruments, hand tools, one used in agriculture and the other in a variety of work. A sickle represented in the symbol is, importantly, made of metal. In this way the sickle refers…

a defence of documenta fifteen A little while ago I wrote a small article expressing my experience of documenta fifteen, not the event or institution of it as such, but its evenement, its happening in the contemporary political environment in Germany and in the imperial core. In the meantime, documenta the institution, and documenta fifteen…

documental fifteen, heterogeneous, accessible, resplendent in process and incompleteness, present-here-and-now-affirmative, is soft-imperialist, globalist art at its apex. …

“Authoritarian” is the word used today to describe any government which stands against the NATO-market-feudalism world disorder. This world disorder is not authoritarian because it is not “authored”. It is the result of competition-maximalism, randomly competing forces which produce war, strife and devastating economic crises. Having learned from history and…

The Road to Serfdom and the reality of Scientific Capitalism in the PRC If you want a good tl;dr for Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, read Bruce Caldwell’s introduction to the University of Chicago Press “definitive edition”. There you can read how the characterisation that Hayek was against “big government”…

As Michael Hudson and others have pointed out over the last ten years, The well-known trajectory in Marx whereby societies evolve in their productive modes from Feudalism to Capitalism to Socialism to Communism, has stalled at the first stage, not, as is commonly understood, at the second. The first stage…

In 2015 I was a supporter of the movements which brought Syriza to power in Greece. It seemed like an effective model of political transformation under contemporary conditions was being elaborated. With Syriza rose the profile of little-known economist who dared to speak the truth of economic power, Yanis Varoufakis…

The “tech is not neutral” argument is a liberal hedge, vaguely Malthusian and reactionary. Tech is neutral, people are not. Now what are you going to do? Please explain why the “tech is not neutral” argument helps effect better policy, or helps anyone understand what tech really is. I see…

Marshall McLuhan and the Arts exhibition: 22.09.2017–19.11.2017 West den Haag opening: 22.09 1900 Huis Huguetan Lange Voorhout 34 2514 EE Den Haag 1. Symposium: 28 & 29.09: 1100–1900 KABK den Haag “For a Reasonable Ecology between the Media” Richard Cavell (CA), Ganaele Langlois (CA), Jasper Berner (US) Florian Cramer (DE), Geert Lovink…