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{"title":"Louise Amoore: Cloud Ethics. Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others","authors":"Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"88-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42691159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die Beweglichkeit der Kritik. Zur Wechselbeziehung von Kontextualisierung und Objektivierung im digitalen Zeitalter","authors":"Christoph Haker, Lukas Otterspeer","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1058","url":null,"abstract":"Given that digitisation and datafication go hand in hand with post-truth phenomena and claims to neutrality, we plead for an agility of critique. The problems of post-truth phenomena and claims to neutrality are that they are associated with relativistic and technocratic tendencies. These tendencies require an agility of critique that contrasts post-truth phenomena with a movement from contextualisation to objectivation and the claimed neutrality with a movement from objectivation to contextualisation. However, such agility of critique faces significant challenges: Conceptually, this agility is accused of being relativistic itself, and from a scientific-historical perspective, objectivation and contextualisation are regarded as incompatible forms of reflection. The goal of our contribution is therefore a rehabilitation of the agility of critique, which we theoretically substantiate with Bourdieu’s participant objectivation and the concept of the divided habitus.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"31-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47709486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distributed Planned Economies in the Age of their Technical Feasibility","authors":"J. Groos","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1061","url":null,"abstract":"Both climate change and the covid-19 pandemic have increased interest in a contemporary discourse around questions of planned economies. This discourse had been boiling up over the last decade and now meets a political landscape that has rather quickly and substantially re-assessed its relation towards planning. However, if the concept of planned economies is not to merely mean a more extensive role of the state within a social market economy, but fundamentally different types of political economy, substantial open questions need to be addressed. This article analyses the current discourse around non-capitalist planned economies and argues that there is a need for new conceptions of planned economies that neither resort to central planning nor variants of market socialism. For further work towards such alternative conceptions it proposes the term distributed planned economies.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45189593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"„Wie ist Geschichte a priori möglich?“ Algorithmische Vorhersage und die Aufgabe der Kritik","authors":"Lotte Warnsholdt","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1056","url":null,"abstract":"The term of critique is deeply embedded in the history of modernity. However, it seems that the current media technologies of algorithmic prediction transcend the temporal semantics of modernity and its forms of subjectivation. What does this mean for critique and the critical subject? Is critique still possible when (future) events are not only predicted but also captured and modified? This article takes up these questions by addressing Shoshana Zuboff’s analysis of surveillance capitalism and Antoinette Rouvroy’s notion of algorithmic governmentality. Additionally, the article takes the historical framework of the project of critique and its forms of subjectivation into consideration to finally evaluate the question whether it is possible to think beyond history with the help of history.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"6-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43549659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Warum Ethikstandards nicht alles sind. Zu den herrschaftskonservierenden Effekten aktueller Digitalisierungskritik","authors":"B. Prietl","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1057","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with AI ethic guidelines and standards as the currently dominant form in which society articulates critique of digital data technologies and searches for solutions for the respective upheavals. Based on a discourse-analytical reflection, it is argued that the premises underpinning the societal critique of digitalization have several conceptual limitations – especially when it comes to understanding and questioning social relations of power and the role that digital data technologies play in their reproduction. Against this backdrop, the currently dominant form of societal critique of digitalization is described as essentially preserving power relations. Therefore, it is pleaded for strengthening rationality- and power-critical perspectives in the debates on digitalization and its challenges.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"19-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46772696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Landnahme, analog und digital. Ursprüngliche Akkumulation in den Kontrollgesellschaften","authors":"Roberto Nigro, Heiko Stubenrauch","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1060","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we characterise the digitisation of the lifeworld led by platform companies as digital land grabbing and look at it in the mirror of the (analogue) land grabbing described by Karl Marx as primitive accumulation. While through analogue land grabbing, a situation was violently brought about in which the workers were forced to enter into exploited wage employment or die of starvation, through digital land grabbing, a situation emerged in which one has to enter into exploited data employment (and produce data for platform companies) or die social death. Just as Silvia Federici understands analogue land grabbing as a counter-revolutionary reaction to late medieval peasant uprisings, we want to interpret digital land grabbing and the emergence of data labour as a counter-revolutionary reaction to the micropolitical liberation movements that put pressure on Fordist and post- Fordist capitalism in the 20th century.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46212866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kritik als Urteilskraft – wenn Trolle post-kritisch nachahmen","authors":"Ann-Kathrin Gräfe, E. Wagner","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1059","url":null,"abstract":"The extent to which the totalizing appropriation through subversive practices, in the visual arts and political activism, can be turned around in order to experience the possibility of a different present is the subject of the proposed contribution. Using the hashtag #DCBlackout and looking at Amalia Ulman’s Instagram performance „Excellences and Perfections“ (2014), the aim is to examine how ‚trolling‘ strategies, previously primarily used as populist manipulation by the political right, are reflexive and subversive and thereby can develop enlightening critical potential. Our thesis is arguing that through the use of mass media rhetoric and distribution channels inside social networks, ‚aesthetic trolls‘ provoke an art and political world that is concerned with criticality and honesty and can present its own defaults and blind spots. In addition to the resulting doubts about the digitally postulated existing, thus something like digital authenticity itself, the reflexive moment, i.e. the influence of the doubt on the individual her/ himself who spreads the digital message, is examined.","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"48-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47385719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Futures of Critique in the Digital Age","authors":"J. Herder, Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.2.1055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42700457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Immunisieren - Über die politischen Praktiken der digitalen Finanzökonomie. Kommentar zu Joseph Vogl: Kapital und Ressentiment im Spiegel des Souveränitätseffekts","authors":"Ute Tellmann","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.1.1053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.1.1053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45269917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gespenstischer Materialismus. Eine Vorbesprechung zu Joseph Vogl: Kapital und Ressentiment","authors":"F. Raimondi","doi":"10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.1.1052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6094/BEHEMOTH.2021.14.1.1052","url":null,"abstract":"Kapital und Ressentiment ist der jüngste Band in einer Serie von brillanten Analysen des gegenwärtigen Finanzkapitalismus, die Joseph Vogl 2010/11 – an seine frühere Arbeit Kalkül und Leidenschaft anknüpfend – mit Das Gespenst des Kapitals eingeleitet hat. Zusammen mit Der Souveränitätseffekt (2014) ordnen sich die drei Bücher keinem übergreifenden Systemgebäude unter, bereiten aber einander den Boden und weisen etliche Überschneidungen auf. Das Gespenst des Kapitals untersucht das Ordnungsdenken der Politischen Ökonomie, das seit den Theorieentwürfen des klassischen Liberalismus nie nur ökonomisch, sondern immer auch als eine Sozialtechnik konzipiert war. Von der „Idylle des Marktes“ bis hin zum gegenwärtigen „Überraschungsraum“ des krisengeschüttelten Finanzkapitalismus entlarvt Vogl die unterstellte Rationalität und Ordnung eines sich durch eine „unsichtbare Hand“ oder nach Maßgabe einer Efficient Market Hypothesis – wie es bei der neoliberalen Chicago School heißt – selbst regulierenden Marktes als Theologem (Vogl 2010, 11, 31 und 141). Was sich durch die Abstraktion von den realen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen etabliert, ist keine Harmonie und allgemeine Wohlfahrt, sondern ein Un-Ordnungsgefüge, in dem schließlich „die Launen und die Gefährlichkeit alter Souveränitätsfiguren [...], die in ihrer Ungebundenheit, in ihrer Gesetzeslosigkeit schicksalhaft werden“ (Vogl 2010, 178), regieren. Die Genealogie dieser „seignoralen Macht“, die sich in parademokratischen Institutionen wie den Zentralbanken, der EZB oder der WTO verkörpert, wird inDer Souveränitätseffekt entwickelt, in dem Vogl die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit von Staat und Markt und die Geschichte einer Ökonomisierung des Regierens bis in die Anfänge moderner Politik verfolgt (Vogl 2015, 69). Kapital und Ressentiment setzt dahingehend den Souveränitätseffekt fort, als hier mit dem Plattformkapitalismus eine „wechselseitige[] Verschränkung bzw. Verstärkung von Finanzund Informationsökonomie“ analysiert wird, die zur „Hegemonie des Finanzmarktkapitalismus“ führt, mit dem neue polit-ökonomische Monopolbildungen und zugleich eine neue informatisierte Öffentlichkeit entstehen, aus der sich Mehrwert extrahieren lässt (Vogl 2021, 5). Gerade die ressentimentalen Bewegungen, die sich gegenwärtig selbst als kritische Öffentlichkeit stilisieren, macht Vogl als Produkt und Produktivkraft des Informationskapitalismus aus, sofern ihr antisoziales Verhalten eben jene Form von Sozialität darstellt, mit der der Kapitalismus seit je her am besten funktionieren konnte.[1] 10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.1.1052","PeriodicalId":30203,"journal":{"name":"Behemoth a Journal on Civilisation","volume":"14 1","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44582216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}