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Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism
In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life and everyday communication changed in the coronavirus crisis? How does capitalism shape everyday life and everyday communication during this crisis?
Section 2 focuses on how social space, everyday life, and everyday communication have changed in the coronavirus crisis. Section 3 focuses on the communication of ideology in the context of coronavirus by analysing the communication of coronavirus conspiracy stories and false coronavirus news.
The coronavirus crisis is an existential crisis of humanity and society. It radically confronts humans with death and the fear of death. This collective experience can on the one hand result in new forms of solidarity and socialism or can on the other hand, if ideology and the far-right prevail, advance war and fascism. Political action and political economy are decisive factors in such a profound crisis that shatters society and everyday life
The Relativistic Dirac-Brueckner Approach to Nuclear Matter
An overview on the relativistic Dirac-Brueckner approach to the nuclear
many-body problem is given. Different approximation schemes are discussed, with
particular emphasis on the nuclear self-energy and the saturation mechanism of
nuclear matter. I will further discuss extensions of the standard approach,
amongst other things the inclusion of non-nucleonic degrees of freedom,
many-body forces and finally compare relativistic and non-relativistic
approaches.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figs, ref. added, invited lecture at 307.
WE-Heraeus-Seminar, "Relativistic Structure Models for the Physics of
Radioactive Nuclear Beams," May 12-16, 2003, Bad Honnef, German
The dialectic: Not just the absolute recoil, but the worldās living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. Reflections on Slavoj Žižekās version of dialectical philosophy in "Absolute recoil. Towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism"
Slavoj Žižek shows in his book Absolute Recoil (and previous Hegelian works such as Less than Nothing) the importance of repeating Hegelās dialectical philosophy in contemporary capitalism. Žižek contributes especially to a reconceptualisation of dialectical logic and based on it the dialectic of history. The reflections in this paper stress that the dialectic is only the absolute recoil, a sublation that posits its own presuppositions, by working as a living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. I point out that a new foundation of dialectical materialism needs a proper Heraclitusian foundation. I discuss Žižekās version of the dialectic that stresses the absolute recoil and the logic of retroactivity and point out its implications for the concept of history as well as Žižekās own theoretical ambiguities that oscillate between postmodern relativism and mechanical materialism. I argue that Žižekās version of the dialectic should be brought into a dialogue with the dialectical philosophies of the German Marxists Hans Heinz Holz and Herbert Hƶrz. Žižekās achievement is that he helps keeping alive the fire of dialectical materialism in the 21st century. Such a dialectical fire is needed for a proper revolutionary theory
Internet, Kapitalismus und periphere Entwicklung im Waldviertel
Das Waldviertel ist eine strukturschwache Region im Norden OĢsterreichs, die eine innere Peripherie und innere Kolonie des oĢsterreichischen und europaĢischen Kapitalismus darstellt. Dieser Artikel analysiert die politische OĢkonomie des Internets im Waldviertel. Das Waldviertel ist konfrontiert mit hohen Ausbeutungsraten im Rahmen einer imperialistischen Arbeitsteilung, Werttransfer, ungleichem Tausch, NiedrigloĢhnen, der Abwanderung der Textilindustrie, hoher Arbeitslosigkeit, Landflucht, dem Abbau oĢffentlicher Infrastruktur und BevoĢlkerungsruĢckgang. Die Analyse verdeutlicht, dass die Situation des Waldviertels als innere Peripherie der kapitalistischen Zentren die KommunikationsverhaĢltnisse praĢgt. Der Zugang zu Computern, dem Internet und Breitband ist im Waldviertel schlechter als in anderen Regionen, die Internet- und Mobiltelefonverbindungsgeschwindigkeit ist tendenziell langsamer und die Region ist eher unattraktiv fuĢr WissensarbeiterInnen. Es gibt im Waldviertel auch AnsaĢtze einer AlternativoĢkonomie, die den Imperialismus infrage stellen. Im Bereich der InformationsoĢkonomie bestehen Potenziale fuĢr die GruĢndung von sozialistischen Kooperativen im Bereich Hardware, Software und soziale Medien, die die kapitalistische Informationsgesellschaft infrage stellen und fuĢr Alternativen kaĢmpfen
Surveillance and critical theory
In this comment, the author reflects on surveillance from a critical theory approach, his involvement in surveillance research and projects, and the status of the study of surveillance. The comment ascertains a lack of critical thinking about surveillance, questions the existence of something called āsurveillance studiesā as opposed to a critical theory of society, and reflects on issues such as Edward Snowdenās revelations, and Foucault and Marx in the context of surveillance
Medios sociales y esfera pĆŗblica
This article analyses the notion of the public sphere, in view of the challenges posed by the social media.
It argues that it is crucial to strengthen the democracy and in order to do this, a materialist approach is needed to see how social media and communication are integrated in power structures and political economy
Neoliberalism in Britain
The Conservative Party has in the 2015 British general elections won an absolute majority under David Cameronās leadership. Cameronās rule signifies an important phase in British politics in the 21st century. This paper asks the question: What is Cameronism? Cameron argues that Margaret Thatcher āwas a big influenceā for him. It is therefore appropriate to study the relationship between Thatcherism and Cameronism. The article revisits theories of Thatcherism and understands it as a unity of ideology and policies that is organised along three dimensions: the economy, politics, and culture. An ideology critique study of key speeches, interviews and documents analyses these three dimensions of Cameronism. A comparison of Cameronism and Thatcherism shows that questions of national identity, the European Union and immigration form a key ideological and political dimension of Cameronism
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