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Comment on Proletarian Nights at the Editing Table by labournet.tv

labournet.tv — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:51:32 +0000

Hi
We used this translation to create English (and German) subtitles for the video.
It can be seen here:
http://en.labournet.tv/video/6540/sled-ladder-le-traineau-echelle

Comment on Photography and Document, Film and Narrative by Jeff K

Jeff K — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:44:40 +0000

Reminds me of this shot in Hitchcock’s Marnie…
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq85/cornershop15/Film%20and%20TV%20Sets/Marnie1.jpg

Comment on The Uses of the Useless: Political Philosophies of Unemployment by Surplus – Labour and Capital, Utopia and Dystopia | Novara Media

Surplus – Labour and Capital, Utopia and Dystopia | Novara Media — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:56:43 +0000

[...] several ‘coordinates’ for approaching the analysis of surplus population in a recent paper given at Historical Materialism – and ties in with this article in the NLR from Michael Denning on ‘wageless life’ [...]

Comment on The Uses of the Useless: Political Philosophies of Unemployment by The Uses of the Useless: Political Philosophies of Unemployment | reificationofpersonsandpersonificationofthings

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:58:42 +0000

[...] Toscano has posted his HM paper over at Cartographies of the Absolute. It provides an interesting map of different theories of unemployment and how they theorize the [...]

Comment on Geography Against Capitalism: Harvey avec Reclus by Urban Omnibus » Experimental Geography

Urban Omnibus » Experimental Geography — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:29:23 +0000

[...] is an expressly visual, often tactile platform. Harvey’s work, in the tradition of Kropotkin, Reclus, and Lefebvre, does group together many of the relevant forces at work in contemporary spaces, but [...]

Comment on Geography Against Capitalism: Harvey avec Reclus by Urban Omnibus » Experimental Geography – on view through 8/24

Urban Omnibus » Experimental Geography – on view through 8/24 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:39:31 +0000

Comment on Geography Against Capitalism: Harvey avec Reclus by southwarknotes

southwarknotes — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:22:02 +0000

Fantastic!

Comment on The Nazca Lines of the Value Form by Ateeb

Ateeb — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:36:08 +0000

‘Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all the classic signs of a bubble. There was rapid growth in credit—with much of that growth taking place not through traditional banking but rather through unregulated “shadow banking” neither subject to government supervision nor backed by government guarantees. Now the bubble is bursting—and there are real reasons to fear financial and economic crisis’. ( Foster, McChesney, 2012)

‘ Workers reported spending ninety-seven hours a week at the factory before the recession, working eighty plus hours. In 2009, given the economic slowdown, the workers were at the factory eighty-three hours a week, and on the production line sixty-eight. Workers race to meet the requirement of producing 2,000 Microsoft mice per shift.’

‘Similar conditions exist at the Meitai Plastics and Electronics Factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong. There two thousand workers, mostly women, assemble keyboards and computer equipment for Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell….. Meitai workers are locked in the factory compound four days of each week and are not allowed to take a walk.’

http://monthlyreview.org/2012/02/01/the-global-stagnation-and-china

Comment on Blood money (I ♥ $) by Ateeb

Ateeb — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:02:39 +0000

Comment on The sphere of exploitation by Bernard

Bernard — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:12:26 +0000

See also this other piece:
Y. Rumpala, “Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project”, Twenty-First Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009.
Abstract:
Modern-day society is increasingly described as an extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralysing description, this paper aims to highlight the potentially political dimension of network analysis, namely as defined in the social sciences, and of the notion of networks itself. It will be shown that a political project could, in this case, be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it. Three steps are proposed to specify how such a political project could be built. The first step aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasises the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step shows the possibilities that this knowledge offers, particularly in allowing one to find one’s bearings in a world which is frequently described as veering towards an increasing complexity, and by helping to rebuild the selection criteria for connections in this world, thanks to an additional degree of reflexivity. The third step draws on these points to extend them and bring out potentialities with regards to the intervention capacities in network configurations.
(also available at: http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/mapping_responsibilities/ )