Let me say this before Tuesday

Quote: “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.”
Fuck dat shit. I can complain when I want. According to the Constitution of the country I live in, “all men are created equal.” Forget the fact that this is bullshit that the writer didn’t even believe; if we’re all equal, my opinion matters just […]

Partying like its 2008, 1999, 1987, 1929, 1873

in a way all this is a relief.
in a way, this is a way for change.
the change that is an inevitable reaction to the failing of the international market created by the globalization of the last two decades may or may not be good for our ilk.
those who follow the these of illogical post operationalization.
perhaps, […]

The Supervillain as Ubertheorist

“Like modern society itself, the spectacle is at once united and divided. In both, unity is grounded in a split. As it emerges in the spectacle, however, this contradiction is itself contradicted by virtue of a reversal of its meaning: division is presented as unity, and unity as division.” — Thesis 54, The Society of […]

Youtube Poop, Dada, & Noise Music: Discuss

The Intellectual Laziness of Rejecting “Theory”

Suppose you legitimately wanted to grasp the writings of an intellectual, but they proved to be difficult for you to understand. What course of action could you take? Would you try your best to do a close reading? Would you consult secondary sources to see if they could shed some light on the topic? Would […]

Short Term Profits of Dunbar’s Number

When considering the strategies of the two competing national parties in America during the last eight years of discourse, its good to recall Dunbar’s Number to help explain many of the actions taken, while they seem out of context.
Pre-dating this tumultuous period following 9/11, the Democrats had seemed like a group who actually had strategic […]

The Autonomy of the Unhuman

The concept of autonomy crops up again and again in political philosophy. Autonomy seems to refer at times to the autonomy of the individual, and at others to the autonomy of peoples, territories, classes or multitudes. One important example includes Autonomism, which is a “bottom up” or “grassroots” theory of Marxism (and the connection between […]

Pinochet and Pokemones: Deleuze and Late Capitalism

When Slavoj Zizek writes that, “There are, effectively, features that justify calling Deleuze the ideologist of late capitalism,” we should take him seriously. Deleuze, much like Marx, wrote against capitalism, but at the same time was fascinated by its ability to blow apart social formations and forge new ones. Deleuze, in his later writing on […]

The Birth of the Security-Information Complex: Beyond Surveillance and Control

The following article is a very rough draft of something that may turn into an actual article, but I decided to go ahead and prematurely publish it anyway in an attempt to get some feedback.
The philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, in which capitalism “con­stantly overcom[es] its own limitations,” has shown itself to be accurate in […]

“Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze

I. Historical

Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school (”you are no longer in your family”); then the barracks (”you are no longer at school”); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment. It’s the prison that serves as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine of Rossellini’s Europa ‘51 could exclaim, “I thought I was seeing convicts.”