Open Letter to Sociologist and IBA Curator Saskia Sassen 23 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm

Open Letter to Sociologist and IBA Curator Saskia Sassen: Dear Ms Sassen, in an interview with the German daily ‘tageszeitung’ published on May, 25th 2013 you answered extensively with regards to yo...

"For Hayek and the neoliberals, the Führer was replaced by the figure of the entrepreneur, the..." 14 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm

“For Hayek and the neoliberals, the Führer was replaced by the figure of the entrepreneur, the embodiment of the will-to-power for the community, who must be permitted to act without being brought to...

"The widespread contemporary belief in “self-organization” is almost religious in its intensity...." 14 Jul 2013 | 03:38 pm

“The widespread contemporary belief in “self-organization” is almost religious in its intensity. … The anarchist left puts its faith in self-organizing movements of dissidence and protest, with the (n...

"Neoliberals still treat the market as one special aspect of nature – no-one is ready to renounce..." 14 Jul 2013 | 03:08 pm

“Neoliberals still treat the market as one special aspect of nature – no-one is ready to renounce that – but nature itself is portrayed (drawing on notions developed in cybernetics, ecology and system...

John Akomfrah talks about ‘The Unfinished... 13 Jul 2013 | 01:03 pm

John Akomfrah talks about ‘The Unfinished Conversation,’ his three-channel video installation on the life and ideas of Stuart Hall. I so wish someone would bring this piece to Berlin.

Ceci n’est pas un DJ set. 13 Jun 2013 | 08:51 pm

Ceci n’est pas un DJ set.

Clearly Julian Assange is an asshole in many ways, but the expression ‘white geek’s... 2 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm

Clearly Julian Assange is an asshole in many ways, but the expression ‘white geek’s burden’ will make it straight into my vocabulary.

Video 29 May 2013 | 09:14 pm

"There’s something to be said for the thought exercise of imagining where the commodity form, left to..." 14 May 2013 | 11:04 pm

“There’s something to be said for the thought exercise of imagining where the commodity form, left to accelerate according to its own one-track mind, would end up. Its replacement of recalcitrant labo...

As an update to the last post, Limn has published a fascinating political history of data mining... 12 May 2013 | 03:31 pm

As an update to the last post, Limn has published a fascinating political history of data mining methods: The history of statistical methods has always been plagued by a tension between the aims of p...