the Fuck-Annie question

Halberstam proceeds to out-Edelman Edelman on the Fuck-Annie question, summoning his readers:

“to embrace a truly political negativity, one that promises, this time, to fail, to make a mess, to fuck shit up, to be loud, unruly, impolite, to breed resentment, to bash back, to speak up and out, to disrupt, assassinate, shock, and annihilate” (Failure, 110).

the reticular fallacy

http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/the-reticular-fallacy

The many qualities of rhizomatic systems should be understood not as the pure and innocent laws of a newer and more just society, but as the basic tendencies and conventional rules of protocological control.

porta dei cieli

Windows, doors, airport gates, and other thresholds are those trans- parent devices that achieve more the less they do: for every moment of virtuosic immersion and connectivity, for every moment of volumetric delivery, of inopacity, the threshold becomes one notch more invisible, one notch more inoperable.

The Unworkable Interface // Alexander R. Galloway

continent. 2.4 (2013)

“There are no great utopian texts after the widespread introduction of computers,” Fredric Jameson remarked recently, “the last being Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia of 1975, where computers are not yet in service.”

Today, instead of utopian texts, we have the free­market deliria of cyberpunk, which assumes that capitalism is itself a kind of utopia of difference and variety. I think this failure of imagination on the left can be attributed to the assumption that computers are enough to “take care” of totalization: that the well­nigh infinite complexities of production on a global scale, which the mind can scarcely accommodate, are mysteriously...resolvable inside the computer’s black box and thus no longer need to be dealt with conceptually or representationally.

The end of the utopian text thus signals for Jameson an end to representation. Or at the very least it indicates that representation—as complicated or flawed as it might be under otherwise normal conditions—has been interrupted and outsourced to another domain entirely.

Laruelle and Art
Alexander R. Galloway
continent. 2.4 (2013): 230–236

*Fredric Jameson, “In Soviet Arcadia,” New Left Review 75 (May­June 2012): 119­127, p. 125.

hermes / the secret

Galloway_Laruelle

psycho-control

galloway on stiegler