The term run means the specific action of a user starting or launching a program. We are talking here of the execution of a project: development of a concept, becoming form of information. We use this word as a metaphor … Continue reading
Mathematical ferocity (Italian version) Europe is becoming a ferocious mathematical entity. Listen to the dominant discourse of the politicians, the bankers, and of the mainstream media: the mathematical necessity of the banking system commands austerity; social expenditure has to be … Continue reading
Andrew McGettigan I was spurred to writing and researching on English higher education eighteen months ago, when Middlesex University in London announced plans to close its highest rated, and internationally respected, research centre in philosophy, the Centre for Research in … Continue reading
di Federico Campagna This piece derives in part from an article I wrote in October 2011, titled Recurring Dreams: the red heart of fascism. In that article, I tried to analyze two different types of debt (the money-debt and the … Continue reading
di Valerio Monteventi Nei mesi scorsi mesi, il fallimento del neoliberismo è risultato sempre più evidente. A colpi di declassamenti finanziari e crolli di borsa, sono stati gli andamenti dei mercati a dettare le regole del gioco. Il capitalismo globale … Continue reading
by Alexandra-Odette Kypriotaki When Greek transport and public cleaning workers cease acting, the urban landscape transformes into a kind of an art installation: it could be called “decomposing capitalism”. I will try to explain why these inactions should be reinforced … Continue reading
By Amador Savater “Consideramos un gobierno tecnocrático de unidad nacional la mejor opción para llevar a cabo las reformas y mantener la confianza de los inversores, con una composición que abarque izquierda y derecha del espectro político y … Continue reading
Valentina Montero Soy chilena, hace 4 años que vivo en Barcelona. Al poco tiempo de estar en Europa me di cuenta de que no sólo provengo de un país localizado al fin del mundo, sino también de un país situado … Continue reading
di Alessandro Simoncini 1. Nascita ed ethos di una scuola per l’immaginazione sociale europea Quale ethos per Scepsi1? Il presente breve lavoro nasce da questa domanda e muove da qualche appunto che prova a schizzare la traccia di un atteggiamento; … Continue reading
by MATTEO PASQUINELLI In a strange nemesis, likely not completely fortuitous, at the very moment of the crisis of the Anglo-American academia we witness the rising ‘hegemony’ of the Italian political philosophy over its departments. From London to California, the names … Continue reading
Written by Franco Berardi The realm of sensibility is involved in the ongoing process of cognitive reformatting; we see aesthetic thought as being inserted at a juncture. Ethical and political thought is also reshaping its observational standpoint and framework around … Continue reading
(Italian version of this article) Europe will be the product of your mind Spring 2011 : the European Union is on the brink of the catastrophe, as Neoliberal dogmatism is imposing the diktat of the financial class upon the interests of … Continue reading
What is the impact of the current economic crisis on the life of the European society? What is the relation between financial crisis and political imagination today? First panel. Friday 20 May, 4:30pm. Christian Marazzi – University of Bellinzona Federico … Continue reading
We know that he lived between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and that he joined Alexander the Great’s expedition to India. Diogenes Laertius tells that he was a painter at first, that he then heard the lessons of Bryson and had … Continue reading
(Italian version) Net-economy In the ‘90s, when the Net began to create a new environment for cognitive activity, and to mutate the very methodology of the knowledge process, many theorists and technologists and economists optimistically spoke of a long, inexhaustible … Continue reading
What is the impact of the current economic crisis on the life of the European society? What is the relation between financial crisis and political imagination today? Christian Marazzi – University of Bellinzona Federico Campagna – Goldsmiths University London Valerio … Continue reading