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Fragments on the zombie myth: the mortification of general intellect and the half-life of the cognitariat

Written by Toby Austin Locke, 14.10.2013
The only modern myth is the myth of zombies—mortified schizos, good for work, brought back to reason.
- Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari 
 
The zombie is the point at which power’s domination, the domination of the state and of capital in all its shades - subjective, existential, epistemological, even ontological - has entered so completely into our communities that the unquestioning automaton is the most recurrent and common form-of-life to be encountered. It is the point at which subjectivity has been so deeply infested by the love of power, the micro-facism that is diffused across the global bio-political mass, that life only appears as a half-death, an existence the potential forms of which are predetermined, prelimited, constrained. The images of loved ones appear, but terrify; intimacy gives way to disgust, and those who break free of their cages of isolation, who demand to reclaim life from its half-death, are confronted by the utter terror that surrounds them.
 

A sarà dura. Per loro!

Written by Stefano Dorigo, 11.07.2011

Il grosso del concentramento è sotto il fortino militare di Exilles, da cui partirà il corteo principale in direzione del cantiere dove sorgerà il Treno ad alta velocità. In testa, lo spezzone dei sindaci no tav, con tanto di fascia tricolore a tracolla. Dietro i bambini, con palloncini e cartelloni colorati.
Prima della partenza del corteo principale, un nutrito gruppo di giovani si stacca per dirigersi verso Sant’Antonio. Siamo tra loro.
Il sole splende sulle nostre teste, mentre proviamo a immaginare quanto forte potrà battere sulle zucche vuote chiuse dai caschi blu.

test drive

Written by tragicoptimist, 12.04.2011

rubber to the road, roaring rage : burning. shelby gt and he jet setting arizona afternoon sunbaked desert setting, black and blasting fast. busting past, empty space. dense air, hot and sand. salt white blurring visions blinding, grey strip scissions sections right and left : Lee racing leftlane lest he die – test drive.

he hand heel holding the wheel, right between bottle and gear. whiskey wet his lips, cigarette breath. chuck the butt, had enough : eight years of endless effort, crosscountry constant concrete slabbing. fatigue facing, work waking fifteen hour days exerting. building bridges, making gaps : pissing from pittsburgh to portland, constructing the world. tens of tons a son of steel and stone, unshaven. alone.

Night of the living geeks

Written by Federico Campagna, 28.03.2011

Geeks are a nice species of creature. Cutely dressed, delicate, fragile, softly spoken to the point of mutism. Yet, they have managed to colonize the collective imagination of an entire generation. This generation. But who are the geeks? And how could this species of shy elves take over the innermost sanctums of the western cultural environment?

Anno Domini

Written by Franco Berardi Bifo, 17.10.2010

In the early autumn of 2010, Sergio Marchionne declared that he lives in the AD era and cannot be dealing with listening to people who come from the time Before Christ. This blasphemous metaphor means that from the moment globalisation came into existence it has become impossible to defend the social rights that predated it.

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