I recently stumbled across an old Tyler Cowen post at Marginal Revolution — on “zero marginal product workers” — which perfectly illustrates the circularity of marginal productivity analysis, and how it hides power relations behind a facade of neutral economic laws. As Cowen initially states the argument, we have had a recovery in output, but…

Di pinnsvin buollit áidi. Originale pubblicato l’undici marzo 2023 con il titolo Renewable Energy Doesn’t Exist Under Capitalism. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. — Se il desiderio è ciò che dà forma all’infrastruttura energetica, come possiamo dar vita a una libido non estrattiva? “Perché chiunque non voglia ammettere che la politica economica è una questione di…

Frank Miroslav. Article original: Individualism Towards Abolition of the Self, 17 decembre 2019. Traduction française par br’er leuk. Un des termes les plus détourné dans le discours politique d’aujourd’hui est l’individualisme. Quand les gens parlent d’individualisme, iels tendent à amalgamer deux types d’individualisme et à les présenter comme inséparables. Le premier est l’individualisme éthique qui…

— If desire shapes energy infrastructure, how do we build a non-extractive libido?  “For what happens to whomever does not want to recognize that political economy is libidinal, is that he reproduces in other terms the same phantasy of an externalized region where desire would be sheltered from every treacherous transcription into production, labour and…

Oleh: Frank Miroslav. Teks aslinya berjudul “Transhumanism and Egoism.” Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Esai ini juga merupakan bagian dari  C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium on Anarchism and Egoism Saya telah diminta untuk memberikan perspektif transhumanis tentang egoisme. Saya pikir ini adalah kritik yang cukup sederhana jadi saya akan menghabiskan sebagian besar bagian…

Oleh: C4SS. Teks aslinya berjudul “What Does AI think of AI Art?” Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Iman Amirullah. Saat perdebatan mengenai seni dan tulisan AI memenuhi Internet, kami di C4SS bertanya-tanya: apa pendapat dari AI itu sendiri tentang semua hal ini? Meskipun AI belum dapat memberi kami pendapat tanpa diminta, Evan Pierce dari…

Por Frank Miroslav. Artículo original publicado el 16 de marzo de 2022 con el título Transhumanism and Egoism. Traducción al español por Vince Cerberus. He sido llamado a dar una perspectiva transhumanista sobre el egoísmo. Creo que esta es una crítica bastante simple, así que voy a dedicar gran parte de este artículo a hablar sobre por…

As the debate about AI art and writing took over the Internet, we at C4SS got to wondering: what does the AI itself think about all this? While it’s not yet possible for AI to give us opinions without some prompting, C4SS’s Evan Pierce sat down with ChatGPT to co-write some essays in favor of…

Frank Miroslav. Artículo original: Individualism Towards Abolition of the Self, del 17 de diciembre de 2019. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Una de las palabras más retorcidas del discurso político actual es individualismo. Cuando la gente habla de individualismo, tiende a fusionar dos tipos de individualismo y los presenta como inseparables. El primero es el…

Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale pubblicato il 6 luglio 2022 con il titolo The Modern Urban Form as a Capitalist Construct. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In un quarto d’ora su internet non son riuscito a trovare quando l’espressione “andare in città” ha finito per significare (secondo un modo di dire inglese, ndt) fare qualcosa con grande…

I could not, in the course of a fifteen-minute internet search, find a definite first attestation of the expression “to go to town,” meaning to do something with great energy or exuberance. That a number of sources report a probable 19th-century American origin is not surprising given that the idiom rests on a metaphoric use…

I have for so long held the same ground – roughly where the anarchic end of Chestertonian Distributism overlaps the individualist end of Proudhonian Mutualism – that I am willing to go so far as to propose as a rule that getting it in the neck from both sides of a false dichotomy is a…

I’ve been called upon to give a transhumanist perspective on egoism. I think that this is a pretty simple critique so I’m going to largely spend this piece talking about why egoists should take it seriously. If you’re already convinced of the importance of thinking rigorously, please just skip my self-indulgent rant and go to…

Tech Learning Collective. Artículo original: Imagining an Optimistic Cyber-Future de 5 de enero de 2021. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Violeta ha sido coautora de este artículo. Dominar la mayoría de las cosas que hace el ser humano requiere toda una vida de práctica. La carpintería, la jardinería y la pintura son algunos de…

De James C. Wilson. Fuente: Book Review: Things That Can & Cannot Be Said. Traducido por Diego Avila. Cusack, John Roy y Arundhati Roy. Things That Can & Cannot Be Said. (Penguin Books, 2016). Con toda la atención dada el mes pasado a la liberación de Chelsea Manning, sentencia la cual fue únicamente conmutada por…

Escrito por Tech Learning Collective. Título original: Deplatforming Parler will have consequences for which we must immediately prepare, de 26 de enero 2021. Traducido en español por Kathiana Thomas. Dos días después del fallido golpe fascista de la extrema derecha estadounidense del 6 de enero de 2021 que dejó cinco muertos en Washington, DC, Twitter…

De Kevin Carson. Artículo original: Decentralized Economic Coordination: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom de 15 de junio de 2020. Traducido para el español por Kathiana Thomas. El problema del cálculo, tal como enunciado por Ludwig von Mises y Friedrich Hayek, ha sido central para la mayoría de argumentos libertarios en contra de formas coordinación económica…

Two days after the American far right’s failed fascist coup on January 6th, 2021 that left five people dead in Washington, DC, Twitter (finally) permanently banned the would-be dictator responsible for inciting the mob from their platform. Shortly thereafter, the social media network most closely affiliated with the racist reactionaries, Parler, was kicked off its…

DisCO Coop (primary authors Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel). Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements. Introduction by Ela Kagel and Afterword by Ann Marie Utratel (2020).  As the Introduction explains, the first installment of the DisCO Trilogy — The DisCO Manifesto — was about ” the reasons behind DisCO, its roots and…

[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this and this episode of The Enragés] Mastering most things humans do requires lifetimes of practice. Woodworking, gardening, and painting are just a few crafts whose histories stretch back thousands of years. But modern telecommunication, the act of communicating nearly instantaneously with someone from afar,…