BGE, Lessons
Lesson thirteen: “It’s ‘concern’, not ‘preoccupation’: on doing and the thing that’s done”. Rivet
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In 1931, Alfred North Whitehead picked up on the notion of ‘concern’ as it was used by the Quakers, to conceive of a dynamic, provocative, changing relationship between subject and object. Using this reference, Whitehead was able to propose sensitive relationships as the basis for structuring experience, which is only cognitively organised into a concrete…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
“Revolution cannot be the mere expropriation of capital, the seizing of the means of production by or on behalf of the working class. It must be the direct destruction of the self-reproducing relation in which workers, as workers — and capital, as self-valorising value — are and come to be. The revolution will be Communist…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
The phrase “That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another” by Georg Simmel, serves as our point of departure for this reading group and inspires a debate around the various agreements, contracts and relations that accompany and define our everyday life. Contracts…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
Translation is the title of my current research project. The practice of this research is located in the intersection of different intentions within the framework of performances by three artists. The limited framework of the three pieces, and the action of revisiting them, aim to liberate new spaces for working in. The three performances are…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
Text to be discussed: ‘Notes on Paradoxes of Self-Abolition’. Marina Vishmidt’s reply to ‘Wandering Abstraction’ by Ray Brassier. To receive the bibliography and take part in the reading session from 10.00 to 14.00 please contact bulegoa@bulegoa.org This is the sixth session of the “What Is to Be Done Under…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
“What is real subsumption? Marx defines ‘formal subsumption’ as the process in which capital integrates an existing labour process: techniques, markets, means of production, workers, etc. But the development of capital inexorably transforms social relations and modes of labour in accordance with its own requirements. The real subsumption of the labour process occurs once every…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
“What is real subsumption? Marx defines ‘formal subsumption’ as the process in which capital integrates an existing labour process: techniques, markets, means of production, workers, etc. But the development of capital inexorably transforms social relations and modes of labour in accordance with its own requirements. The real subsumption of the labour process occurs once every…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
“What is real subsumption? Marx defines ‘formal subsumption’ as the process in which capital integrates an existing labour process: techniques, markets, means of production, workers, etc. But the development of capital inexorably transforms social relations and modes of labour in accordance with its own requirements. The real subsumption of the labour process occurs once every…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
“What is real subsumption? Marx defines ‘formal subsumption’ as the process in which capital integrates an existing labour process: techniques, markets, means of production, workers, etc. But the development of capital inexorably transforms social relations and modes of labour in accordance with its own requirements. The real subsumption of the labour process occurs once every…(Read More)