Bildhauerei und RaumstrategienElie Ayache 22 June 2020 The Financial Market and the Criticism of Automation 1. Overview: Marxist criticism considers the financial market as the utmost achievement of abstraction. It is the jewel of capitalism, which is in turn the accomplishment of metaphysics and of the Greek logos. We argue, against that Marxist view, that the financial market […]
Frank Ruda 15 June 2020 The Worst of Times, or How Not To Reify Freedom? These days people in and of the West protest for their freedom(s). They protest against restrictions, limitations, reductions of what they take to be fundamentally theirs. Many commentators have noted the surprise that these protesters do not simply come from […]
Oxana Timofeeva 3 June 2020 Nature, Violence, and the General Economy: Re-reading Bataille In 1844 Karl Marx famously formulated a task for a new materialist theory that would turn the criticism of heaven into the criticism of earth. Today, when the coronavirus pandemic changes the ways of ecological thinking, this claim becomes all the more appropriate, and its understanding becomes more […]