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…bit too convenient when yet another successful artist...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:19:00 +0200

…bit too convenient when yet another successful artist tells us Bohemian-ity is always-already co-opted by capital…

thestateae: The plague, despite the death, can be used as a...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:34:05 +0200

The plague, despite the death, can be used as a ‘cure’ for society. Epidemically new technologies are born that endemically hide the system (symptoms) from which they harvest. So many people died during the Black Death that timekeeping was created in order to efficiently make the most of the people left to continue agricultural production—cue watches, town clocks, bells, and whistles. With the Dance Epidemic, however, the doctors became the technology themselves. As a media of the day, Paracelsus was the voice of the system of the cure: dictating its terms and its future, taking over from the local practices of peasant women as doctors, and speaking for the dancers themselves. With mass dancing in public, wax tablets became replaced by the mass media of the printing press. Posters went up with warning signs; stories of ships of fools were circulated. And perhaps it is the most symbolic of all that the first known image of a printing shop was combined with that of the dance of death. (via dancing, technology, and the plague: cure | THE STATE)

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Mon, 27 May 2013 21:39:47 +0200

Oh well, got around to buy me a new (equally shitty)...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:25:00 +0200

Oh well, got around to buy me a new (equally shitty) computer…everything has to change to stay the same…wage slavery, the totalitarianism of Microsoft…

Plus wut’s up w the YahooTumblr thing (…’is tumblr the new myspace?’ YES!!! …which is a compliment)…

Hmm, come to think of it, Yahoo Groups are some of the last few good-weird mainstream places on the net…

http://philipbest.blogspot.com/2013/03/philosopher-ii.html

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:35:00 +0100

http://philipbest.blogspot.com/2013/03/philosopher-ii.html

noxe: Vortrag, Richard Kempkens: Ungeglaubter Glaube, gläubiger...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:56:36 +0100

noxe:

Vortrag, Richard Kempkens: Ungeglaubter Glaube, gläubiger Unglaube.

http://www.xiamenoilpainting.com/htmlimg/image-44549.htm

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:49:58 +0100

http://www.xiamenoilpainting.com/htmlimg/image-44549.htm

strangerules: Reduced to Ruin.

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:33:13 +0100

strangerules:

Reduced to Ruin.

http://www.trottoir-hh.de/ausstellungen/oliver-ross.html

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:10:00 +0100

http://www.trottoir-hh.de/ausstellungen/oliver-ross.html:

http://www.oliverross.net/

http://rebelart.net/paolo-cirio-loophole-for-all/0014492/#more-14492

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:47:00 +0100

http://rebelart.net/paolo-cirio-loophole-for-all/0014492/#more-14492

"The crisis-development in this mode of production thus acquires a discrepancy between social needs..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:38:49 +0100

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The crisis-development in this mode of production thus acquires a discrepancy between social needs and financial logic based on criteria of hyper-profitability: in developed countries, the assertion of an anthropogenic model of “production of man by man” where consumption is increasingly oriented towards social, health, educational and cultural sectors, clashes with the privatization of many sectors previously managed by public criteria; in developing countries, the expansion of valorization provokes processes of hyper-exploitation and the destruction of local economies and the environment. The demands of profitability imposed by financial capitalism on the entire society reinforce social regression under the pressure of a growth model that, in order to distribute wealth, voluntarily sacrifices social cohesion and the quality of life itself. Wage deflation, pathologization of labor with increases in health costs generated by work stress (up to 3% of the GDP), worsening social balances and the irreparable deterioration of the environment are the effects of financial logic and of company delocalizations typical of global financial capitalism.

The problem is that, analyzed from a distributive point of view (economistic in the last instance), the crisis-development of financial capitalism leads to a veritable dead-end. As much as it is thrown out the window, the cliché that finance is parasitic implicitly comes back through the front door. The impasse, more theoretical than practico-political, is before everyone’s eyes: the impossibility of elaborating strategies to overcome the crisis, the recourse to economic stimulus measures, on the one hand, presuppose the rescue of finance (of which we are really hostages), but, on the other hand, annul the very possibilities of economic revival.

Both the right and the left wish for an unlikely return to the real economy, veritable “re-industrializations” of the economy (preferably a little greener) in order to leave a finanzialized economy that is an accomplice to the destruction of income and employment. But no one worries anymore about describe the nature and functioning of the so-called “real economy.” And thus they wish for state aid to industrial sectors suffering from overproduction, aid that is then translated into job and wage deductions, which certainly do not help (on the contrary) to revive the economy as a whole.

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- Christian Marazzi - “The Violence of Financial Capitalism” (via effusionofbiopower)

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Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:38:00 +0100

http://berlinisiburning.tumblr.com/post/32864838082/friday-28-sep...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:01:35 +0100

http://berlinisiburning.tumblr.com/post/32864838082/friday-28-september-2012

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:20:09 +0100

some more Filliou fun

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:22:09 +0100

some more Filliou fun

1.000.050 years…

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:00:54 +0100

1.000.050 years…

Sending a belated Yuletide card…

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:00:04 +0100

Sending a belated Yuletide card…

The usual strangely positive January mood (just because yet...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:14:00 +0100

The usual strangely positive January mood (just because yet another damn December has been overcome)…no money, the world is falling apart—-bring it all on…

unknown artist source

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:46:03 +0100

unknown artist

source

From an early piece on Bruce Conner by Kenneth Rexroth

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:37:00 +0100

From an early piece on Bruce Conner by Kenneth Rexroth