In order to understand the relation of new information technology and global capitalism in the text we propose that the condition of digitalization is to be seen in a much broader sense. We suggest to think about a digital mode of production that codes, reproduces and forms the grammar and modes of exploitation and expropriation of the present financial capitalism, that is not limited to the realms of art and culture. The formulation of such a proposition is based on what Jonathan Beller conceptualized as “the cinematic mode of production.”
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The key argument put forward by this analysis is that, despite some points of convergence, Agamben’s and Badiou’s conception of the task of philosophy today – both articulated through a recasting of the relationship between the past and the present, both insisting on the creation of a breach in time separating time and that which in time is more than time itself, the instants of ‘immanent eternity’, and, consequently, on the subjective rather than the historical aspect of a break with the current impasse – are probably the two most diametrically opposed approaches to time.
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The text presents a reflection upon the strategical role of concepts of biopolitics and biopower within Foucault's opus and shows their role in the passage from disciplinatory power to biopower, as well as their main impasse, namely that there is no consistent theory of transformation or break between the new ant the old for together with the new theory of subjectivity it is yet to be founded by Foucault. This has many consequences for the concept of biopolitics in Foucault and for its reaffirmation in his followers.
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