Author Archives: antyphayes

The new politics?

Posted on October 26, 2018

I designed this image for an imaginary zine called ANTIANTIPOETRYPOETRY dated 1 March 2016. That means it’s been sitting in my dropbox since at least then, maybe a bit before. I called it “the new politics”. There is little new … Continue reading →

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On Gilles Dauvé and the Situationist International

Posted on October 22, 2018

This article is available as a pdf here. I hope to publish a follow up in the near future in which I will critically examine Gilles Dauvé’s and Bruno Astarian’s critique of Marx’s value theory. Minor update, 15 December 2018 … Continue reading →

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Cuadernos de Negación – Against the Valorization of Life – Part I

Posted on October 3, 2018

Cuadernos de Negación (Notebooks of Negation) are a collective based in Rosario, Argentina. So far the majority of their important work remains unavailable in English, though there are some other translations available here and here. Fortunately the ediciones inéditos collective … Continue reading →

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In the city (1): indifference

Posted on August 28, 2018

In the city (1): indifference In the city there’s a thousand things I wanna say to you…—The Jam Somewhere in Marx[1] he writes of the experience of indifference that the individual submitted to capitalist social relations has. He argues that … Continue reading →

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Spectacle of what?

Posted on July 20, 2018

This is an article I wrote a few months ago. It will soon be appearing in a Spanish translation in the journal 2&3DORM. The complete text of the article in the original English can be found in pdf format here. … Continue reading →

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The independence of the commodity (2)

Posted on March 12, 2018

Page 37 of internationale situationniste no. 10 has exerted a strange fascination for me since I first saw it. The striking way it combines the reproduction of a contemporary ad, appended with Situationist critical commentary, completes this détournement. Unfortunately, the novel … Continue reading →

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On tonight’s program… the unconscious

Posted on March 9, 2018

Originally from the pages of internationale situationniste, no. 8, January 1963

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