1. "In the labour-process, therefore, man’s activity, via the instruments of labour, effects an alteration, in the object of labour which was intended from the outset. The process is extinguished in the product. The product of the process is a use-value, a piece of natural material adapted to human needs by means of a change in form. Labour has become bound up in its object: labour has been objectified, the object has been worked on. What on the side of the worker appeared in the form of unrest [Unruhe] now appears, on in side of the product, in the form of being [Sein], as a fixed, immobile characteristic. The worker has spun, and the product is a spinning."

    Karl Marx, Capital: Volume 1 (NLR/Penguin 1972), pp. 287 (via fuckyeahdialectics)

    Karl gettin’ all spinozist.

  2. ad315020s2011:

    The Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (time and motion studies)

  3. Midnight Notes Collective   [[MORE]]</p> “WORK IS WORK AS FAR AS IT CAN COMPARE WITH THE WORK OF A MACHINE. Work is measured by the work of machines. This definition or representation of human work by means of machines is the *first abstraction of human work.* It is significant that the historical emergence of the abstraction was contemporary to emergence of the definition of work in physics: Work = Force X Displacement, which is exactly the Definition of a thermal machine’s work.” - 

    Midnight Notes Collective   

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  4. RAIN CHECK: TinyChat Meeting: Cyborgs: Bodies & Capital.

    e-schatology:

    So I’m doing this meeting about Capitalism and Cyborgs. 

    The issue at hand is something like; can we use the concept of Cyborgs to explore a Marxist critique of capitalism? 

    The basic topics will be:

    • use-value and biology 
    • Labour/Power
    • tools, machines and mediated metabolism. 
    • abstract labour and machine work. 
    • Commodity-bodies. 
    If i get a chance ill talk about how these ideas might form an kind of praxis any the idea of ”Liquid Metal Lenin” and how i see interesting potentials in Terminator 2’s T-1000 as a potential model for future/present Bolshevicks 

    hopefully i will be able to cover some of these ideas, but I’ll have to see. 

    HI ALL, REALLY SORRY, BUT DUE TO A HANGOVER/COMEDOWN THAT IS MAKING EVERYTHING HURT, IM POSTPONING THE MEETING. SORRY TO BE A JERK. 

    HOWEVER HERE ARE SOME LINKS ON STUFF I FOUND USEFUL. 

    http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/5 

    http://www.chrishablesgray.org/postmodernwar/Postmodern_War_Chapter10.pdf 

    http://www.midnightnotes.org/pdfapoc16.pdf (the section on the manifold of work) 

    http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_07.shtml 

    are all usefull to read and none of them to long. 

    so sorry.

    feel like death. 

  5. TinyChat Meeting: Cyborgs: Bodies & Capital.

    So I’m doing this meeting about Capitalism and Cyborgs. 

    The issue at hand is something like; can we use the concept of Cyborgs to explore a Marxist critique of capitalism? 

    The basic topics will be:

    • use-value and biology 
    • Labour/Power
    • tools, machines and mediated metabolism. 
    • abstract labour and machine work. 
    • Commodity-bodies. 
    If i get a chance ill talk about how these ideas might form an kind of praxis any the idea of ”Liquid Metal Lenin” and how i see interesting potentials in Terminator 2’s T-1000 as a potential model for future/present Bolshevicks 

    hopefully i will be able to cover some of these ideas, but I’ll have to see. 

  6. 8 hours and a Gun

    - Demand of the Patrograd Soviet 

  7. "The only practical option available to the rulers of capitalist societies has lain in the global disaggregation of the political system, accompanied by a regional distortion of the world labour trading system in favour of the working classes in the metropolitan regions (‘welfare capitalism’)… the world order functions as an integrated process based upon the flow of market-priced labour into the metropolis [Western city] from the Third World… and the export of political instability to the Third World from the metropolis… The global labour market is easily interpreted, therefore, as a sustained demographic disaster that is systematically displaced away from the political institutions of the metropolis [Western city]."
    Nick Land, Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest…, 1988 (in Fanged Noumena, Urbanomic, 2011)

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"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."---- The German Ideology, 1845