Necro-economics: Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal: By Warren Montag. Wuote: "Louis Althusser began Reading Capital with the statement, 'We have all certainly read and are all reading [Marx's] Capital.' While Althusser is undoubtedly addressing here his seminar, the focus of which was precisely Marx's Capital, the sentence that follows elevates the act of reading this particular text to the status of the universal: the entire world has read and is reading Capital. Marx has been read for 'nearly a century' not only by 'us' (that is, all of us) but for us and to us even, and especially when we are not aware of it. And this paradox – that of our having read a text without knowing it – is made possible by the fact that Capital, Marx’s theoretical work, is not limited to or contained by a book or set of books. [...]" Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
