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ian alan paul
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technopolitics and anarchist thought
faculty @ universitat pompeu fabra in barcelona
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elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
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It is only because of a wasteland that spreads informatically and algorithmically, deepening its desert within each life and throughout all of social life, that what is online can appear as an oasis, as a digitized refuge from the desolation that breathlessly expands. The reticular society is simply the networked presence of the life it makes absent. It is the form of domination that endlessly communicates what it has captured. It is the circulating simulation of what it has historically stolen away.
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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When power becomes bio-power resistance becomes the power of life, a vital power that cannot be confined within species, en-­ vironment or the paths of a particular diagram. Is not the force that comes from outside a certain idea of Life, a certain vitalism, in which Foucault's thought culminates? Is not life this capacity to resist force? From The Birth of the Clinic on, Foucault admired Bichat for having invented a new vitalism by defining life as the set of those functions which resist death. And for Foucault as much as for Nietzsche, it is in man himself that we must look for the set of forces and functions which resist the death of man. Spinoza said that there was no telling what the human body might achieve, once freed from human discipline. To which Foucault replies that there is no telling what man might achieve 'as a living being ', as the set of forces that resist.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social
La semana que viene voy a participar en un debate sobre «La prueba de la anarquía» en Anònims, una librería en Granollers. Si estáis por la zona, venid 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The French edition of The Reticular Society will be coming out with lundimatin in October with a nice postface from Frédérique Neyrat 🔥🔥🔥
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A photo of several of the books stacked on a red background.
September 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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“What must be confronted in our fascist moment then is not simply the proximity between subjectivity and subjugation, but rather the degree to which ... domination itself has been embraced as the foundation of social life.”
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Subjectivity, Subjugation, Spectacle Ian Alan Paul September 25th, 2025 In English there is an ambiguity in the word “subjection.” It can denote the way lives are made into subjects and thus are given subjectivity, but also the way lives are subjected to domination and thus are subjugated. That both subjectivity and subjugation ambiguously coincide in “subjection” tells us that the forms within which life is lived are never far away from the forms through which life dominates and is dominated, that the positive formation of life is always nearby the negative possibility of constraining it.1 What must be confronted in our fascist moment then is not simply the proximity between subjectivity and subjugation, but rather the degree to which fascism has made subjugation the very ground of subjectivity, to which domination itself has been embraced as the foundation of social life.
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM