#gerald raunig

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Excerpt from Gerald Raunig's Making Multiplicity

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Reading Factories of Knowledge today. University as a real formidable concept is this book.

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La máquina.

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“The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have some under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it."

- Gerald Raunig 'A Thousand Machines' (p25), 2010, Semiotexte

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Occupation without subject. Movement without subject. Asubjective composition. The current occupation movements are characterized by their dispensing with any subject. No unity, no wholeness, no identifiable class. Classical theories of revolution would see this as a problem, the (revolutionary) subject being a condition for the possibility of revolt, insurgency, revolution as a fixed component of a theory of stages: only once a uniform subject appears on the horizon, a molar block, the working class, a united front, only then – seen from this angle – can the revolution get going. And yet, the absence of the subject does not have to be interpreted as a deficiency. Quite the opposite, it could indicate a new quality in the revolution, in a henceforth molecular revolution, and the primacy of multiplicity within it.

Gerald Raunig, "n - 1. Making Multiplicity: A Philosophical Manifesto"

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Gerald Raunig: Keynote Presentation at the Creative Time Summit 2011

Here's the full text of his lecture: "The Molecular Strike" 

And the dude is wearing a Bartleby "I Would Prefer Not To" t-shirt. Classic.

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The workers operating the apparatuses are just as much a part of the machine as the intellectual, cognitive labor of those who have developed the machine and make up its social environment: economists, managers and engineers. Marx thus formulates on the one hand the separation of the workers from their means of work, their determination through the machines, the domination of living labor by objectified labor, and introduces the figure of the inverse relationship of humans and machines: from the machine as a means for the human being to ease his or her working and living conditions to the human being as a means of the machine.

Gerald Raunig, A Thousand Machines