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On normativity in Goldstein Canguilhem Foucault a seminar tomorrow in Ghent bit.ly/NCfdVz 4 days ago Follow Me on Twitter
Having only few minutes, as a nodal point to condense many open questions, Im going to use only one idea, that is the concept of surplus value of
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positivity of living labour that is stolen to make capital. In Deleuze and Guattari
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the surplus value of code points also to the deterritorialized flows of modern science and knowledge before being incarnated into machinery and even to the new figure of the scientific and technical worker (Gorz, 1967!).7 Capital itself emerges as a mathematical object, as a computational projection. Here it is code what describes and makes possible surplus value: The differential relation expresses the fundamental capitalist phenomenon of the transformation of the surplus value of code into a surplus value of flux.8 Capital is
fall that will motivate Deleuze and Guattari for the political option of
acceleration. In general this differential of value points to the problem of scale, to the nature of augmentation, and in other respects to the issue of Singularity. Whereas Californian Ideology shaped the dream of a technological singularity (till the extremities of pancomputationalism), the European Left has been always following the idea the singularity can only be engineered by (revolutionary) politics. Land trashed both according to the pessimistic horizon of the technopolitical singularity of NeoChina. Accelerationism reemerges then to domesticize once again technology by a political tendency, as we saw in the papers by Nick Srnicek on planning and Benedict Singleton on platforms. To conclude. The locus classicus of accelerationism rotates around a quote by Nietzsche that Deleuze and Guattari left orphan of a proper footnote for some (good) reasons. Nietzsches original statement is found in the Posthumous
Fragments:
The homogenization of European man is the great process that cannot be obstructed: one should even accelerate it. The necessity to create a gulf, a distance, an order of rank, is given by itself: not the necessity to retard this process.10 Indeed Nietzsche sounds quite sinister here, but this process of inhuman homogenization is well known to us, it is the canonical onedimensional man of the Frankfurt School and 20th centurys totalitarian regimes. After WWII it was the NorthAmerican consumerist society and today the new labour conditions of global logistics championed by NeoChina. Homogenization is indeed a consequence of global computation by capital. Yet discovering Nietzsche original meaning is a bit reassuring. It seems that we accelerated well enough beyond the point of homogenization of humankind and a new process can be imagined by freeing computation from capital. How to do that?
1. This chapter of AntiOedipus is so rich that can be quoted according to anybodys shopping list: here, for instance, Deleuze and Guattari make a call for a monetarist and antiproductivist turn of Marxism (today reminded by Lazzarato and other philosophers of debt); they deal also with the deterritorialization/abstraction couple and with Marxs introduction to Grundrisse; they also mention a dialectics between center and periphery and a globalised future very similar to Hardt and Negris Empire; and eventually they close with Nietzsches accelerationist quote. It is the locus classicus for too many. 2. Reza Negarestani, Navigate With Extreme Prejudice, PDF here. 3. McKenzie Wark on Bogdanov and Haraway, abstract here 4. Daniel Sacillotos abstract here 5. Deleuze and Guattari, AntiOedipus, p. 232, note 76 6. Nick Lands notes here 7. Deleuze and Guattari, AntiOedipus, p. 238 8. Deleuze and Guattari, AntiOedipus, p. 228. 9. Of course computation is not always capitalistic, we dont need to repeat this.
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